Retail, preschool math, and Asteroids games – Top 3 Posts of the week
https://eduk8.me/2017/11/downfall-retail-relates-education/
https://eduk8.me/2017/12/more-math-in-preschool/
https://eduk8.me/2017/11/create-asteroids-quizzing-game-kupiter/
https://eduk8.me/2018/08/comic-clean-slate/ https://eduk8.me/2018/08/manage-chrome-tabs-by-workspaces-with-workona/ https://eduk8.me/2018/09/digital-distraction-has-its-cost/
We’ve been there, the class is studiously working on their Chromebooks, researching ancient Rome when, BAM, a student navigates to a site with an annoyingly loud auto-playing video or ad. For those situations, AutoMute can help. Once installed, AutoMute will mute all of the tabs in the browser. The user can then mute or unmute the current tab, giving…
I don’t know what I was doing, but this past week I stumbled upon the WordPress.com App for the desktop. Currently available for OS X and Windows, the WordPress.com App takes some of the administrative features from the WordPress dashboard and delivers those features to you in an up to date, and I believe, more…
Under the More tab on the search results tab Google is adding a Personal tab. Selecting it searches your personal information stored in Google. Selecting Personal searches for matching data in your Calendar, Gmail, and Photos. It doesn’t appear to search Google Drive for content though. The Personal tab is only showing for personal accounts right now, and there isn’t any…
Increasingly, though, I am uncomfortable with the distinction we casually make between “pro” users and “regular” users. I don’t think these sorts of utilities are useful just for computer nerds. (There’s another category we should leave behind us.) I think they’re useful for everybody. Put another way: we’re all “pro” users. I want to…