Student technology, fonts, and a a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2019/07/can-students-learn-with-technology/
https://eduk8.me/2019/07/browse-fonts-randomly-with-randofont/
https://eduk8.me/2019/07/comic-packing-for-vacation/
Gabriel’s Seeds is a website that allows you to create personalized learning apps from your browser. After a quick sign up, you can browse the apps in the directory or create your own. For ESL teachers there are a multitude of apps in different languages. I started creating my app from one of the supplied…
Use this add-on to choose from thousands of free images and insert them in your Google Docs document. Source: Pixabay Free Images – Google Docs add-on Pictures that show up in the results with this add-on are Creative Commons 0 licensing, which means you can use them for any purpose, including commercial. The first time…
Delaying school start times has been universally touted as the answer to the growing epidemic of teenage sleep deprivation, but this common orthodoxy may be based in false ideas about how teen biological clocks really work. The argument for later start times hinges on the fact that teenagers prefer to go to bed and sleep in…
Thanks to Cloudflare‘s free SSL service, the eduk8.me website is now secured over SSL. Cloudflare is a cloud proxy system for websites, allowing the website to load faster for users while also protecting the website for denial of service or other attacks. There are two other nice features for websites when used with Cloudflare, IPv6 support…
It took me a little bit to find it, but the new GSuite Sites now lives in Google Drive. From my brief look at it, GSuite Sites is a great leap from the Classic Sites. To get started, check out the following video.