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/
Readability, a bookmarking service that also cleaned up web pages, is shutting down September 30th. I’m going to miss the website, I used their Chrome add-on to clean up webpages to read. Readability was a great way to focus on the content of the page, and I recommended the site for students that might be…
Since our students are using technology to play, learn, and communicate while at home and at school, they should be learning how to use that technology responsibly. Full integration of digital citizenship (or DigCit) curriculum into every class and every content area—at every grade level—should be the goal to meet this need. Source: How to…
I don’t like to write anything, so when I have to mail something, I want to print out the envelope. Unfortunately, Google Docs doesn’t have the venerable #10 envelope as a paper size. Never fear, the Envelopes add-on for Google Docs will save the day. To get started, open up a new Google Docs document,…
Twitter announced several upcoming changes to the format of the Tweet and how tweets will be treated in the future. The goal is to open up more characters to be used in the tweet itself. Replies When you reply to a tweet, the @USERNAMEs will not count as characters in the tweet. The limit will…
Teach Like a Hacker with Google Chrome, Drive, and Docs This presentation will show intermediate and advanced users different ways of using Google Chrome, Google Drive, and Google Docs, in their classroom. I will talk about using profiles to organize your browsing experience, using extensions to streamline school work, and bookmarks to save time. We…
13 Gmail hacks for teachers A continuation of Gmail hacks for teachers. Highlight rows in Google Sheets with conditional formatting It’s easy to highlight cells in Google Sheets, this shows how to highlight an entire row. The Best Schools In The World Do This. Why Don’t We? I would have never guessed the three items…