Starting the school year, a meme, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/08/7-things-to-do-to-start-the-school-year/
https://eduk8.me/2021/08/students-start-out-early-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/08/pd-or-planning-comic/
https://eduk8.me/2021/06/did-you-know-that-nasa-offers-a-bunch-of-free-ebooks/ https://eduk8.me/2021/06/whiteboard-app-for-sports/ https://eduk8.me/2021/06/august-calendar-eduk8meme/
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…
If you use Google Forms to collect entry or exit tickets, or other information from students, a quick and fast way to offer custom feedback is to use the formMule add-on. I posted a how-to before on using formMule, and you can follow that page with a couple of changes. By using formMule, you can…
Calculator apps are funny, you don’t think about them until you need them, and then you want them to work fast and then get out of your way. Calculator for Google Chrome works well for that. Once installed, Calculator adds an app that you can launch from Google Chrome that does what it says it does, and…
In the past year and a half I have been running Linux on an Lenovo Ideapad. It worked really well, but I was missing a couple of things. One was wireless mirroring. My workaround was to use Chrome and a Chromecast, but it wasn’t as smooth as I would like. I was also missing some…
Yet another reason to limit Facebook use… Fake news feeder. College admissions – 7 giveaways of student social media use What do college admissions officials look at in a perspective student’s social media feed? Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons – your complete guide Hopefully will answer all of you questions about copyright!