Using your phone or a tablet as a document camera
This thread by Tony Vincent on Twitter got me thinking about the various ways you can set up a document camera with your phone or a tablet. **Since I posted this article, I have had a chance to put together a video showing the software side. This technique is easier than the software listed below…
Teach from home,Chromebook printing, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2020/03/teach-from-home-resources-software-and-hardware/ https://eduk8.me/2020/03/google-is-adding-a-native-printing-and-scanning-app-to-chromeos/ https://eduk8.me/2020/03/comic-social-distancing/
Open offices
It need hardly be said that these fads were and are (at best) a waste of time and (at worst) a set of expensive distractions. But open plan offices are worse. Much worse. Why? Because they decrease rather than increase employee collaboration. Source: It’s Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time |…
Google is adding a native printing and scanning app to ChromeOS
Considering how education-focused Chromebooks are, it’s genuinely surprising that it took this long for Google to improve its printing and scanning situation in a real way. No doubt the impending demise of Cloud Print was a deciding factor in finally starting these efforts. As the work is only just beginning though, it’s likely we won’t…
Inklewriter is back and open sourced! Create interactive stories online
Source: inkle blog – inklewriter lives again! I posted about Inklewriter way back in 2016. It is a tool much like Twine for creating interactive stories. Inklewriter is now back, and free to use on the web. There are several new features, but the biggest is that Iinklewriter is now open source. That means your…
