Internet Travels Edcerpts are my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Apps Google Workspace Updates: Collaborate with colleagues in Google Slides through a new ‘Follow’ feature – The follow feature lets collaborators easily keep track of edits in real…
So we now can work in teams despite being continental distances away from each other but we do have to acquire the skills to do that. And if we fail to do so, that has a rather grave disadvantage, which is that… Nothing has as dire an impact on productivity as poor communications. This is a truism that applies…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. There is a 40 episode show from AMC called Halt and Catch Fire. It’s a fictionalized few of the early computer revolution in the 80s up to the search engine wars and the…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Technology troubleshooting and mindset When I’m working with others, I have a question I use to figure out their mindset: When technology goes wrong, what do you do? If they answer that they…
These are my top 5 FREE tools for teachers. Not just freemium where you get a few features for free, I’m talking about services in which you get ALL access for free. The list also doesn’t include any Google tools. Canva Adobe Spark Loom for Education Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Davinci Resolve
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Technology is a weird beast. There are people we expect to know a lot about it, and then there are people we expect to not know anything about it. The unspoken truth is…
In early 2020 I was tapped to design an onboarding program for three new Instructional Designers that would be added to our team in the coming months. I decided to take a multi-modal approach to designing the onboarding experience, balancing consistent, online, low-touch eLearning experiences with high-touch, rich, interactive, learner-centered constructivist activities. Now that it’s…
Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. Source: The cheap pen that changed writing forever – BBC Future A fascinating look at one of the best educational technology tools ever invented, the ballpoint pen. Whenever…
If you get good at a type of technology, you’ll find yourself using it often. On the other hand, if you decide that you’re somehow untalented at it (which is nonsense) or don’t take the time, then you’ll have sacrificed leverage and confidence that were offered to you. Source: Dancing with tools | Seth’s Blog…
Source: Screen Recorder | Free, Private, No Ads Screen Recorder creates a screencast, with or without a microphone. That’s it. No editing, no webcam, no nothing. When the recording is complete, you can download a movie file in .webm format. Sure, if you have access to Screencastify (free during the current crisis) Loom (free for…