📷 Ed photos of the week for 2023-03-23
Ed photos for the week Keeping Appointments with Yourself – George Couros “Children’s books are engines for empathy.” “Teaching Is About the Messy Work of Being Human. Here’s How to Embrace It”
Teacher and principal email scams
No, your principal, superintendent, nor fellow teacher is going to ask you to purchase gift cards through an email. E-mail and phishing scams It seems like every so often one of our teachers will get an email supposedly from their principal or our superintendent, saying that they are unavailable to be called or texted at…
Helping our ADHD students
Jessica McCabe has chronicled her lifelong struggle with ADHD on her YouTube channel where she demonstrates the struggles of ADHD (neurodivergent) people and how neurotypicals can help. ADHD and neurodiversity Neurotypicals are those who’s brain functions at what society calls normal, while neurodiverse people are those whose brains work differently. ADHD is one of the…
Importance of sleep, opportunity costs, ChatGPT, and more – Of bits and bytes for March 20, 2023
Internet Travels Of bit and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week “The method, then, is simply to expose ourselves to a stream of provocations and interesting problems, and have a hunch on where to look up…
📷 Ed photos of the week for 2023-03-16
Ed photos for the week 🌱 Growing Raccoon 🏳️🌈: “😂😂😂 #library #librarian #meme #ferret” – Gamedev Mastodon LikesOldMacs: “Remember this photo the next time you’re upset ab…” – Mastodon “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” Be very careful of the behaviors and standards we reward Empathy…
Crisis communication prep hacks for schools
I would like to thank our special guest author Kolt Buchenroth for his contribution today to Eduk8.me! He is currently the public relations manager for Kenton City Schools. No one likes preparing for the worst. But, you either do it or get left in the dust. I prefer to take advantage of the calm and do what I…
Adding a progress bar to your Google Slides
I was sitting through a presentation at the Ohio Educational Technology Conference when on one of the slides I thought I saw a progress bar for the number of slides in the presentation at the bottom of the slide. The bar was a mirage, but that started me on the trek to add progress bars…
🏙 AI detector, city-building simulator, value or valuable, and more – Of bits and bytes for March 13, 2023
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 “Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.” – Paula Poundstone Although I lean a little…
📷 Ed photos of the week for 2023-03-09
Ed photos for the week Joanne Fisher: “Either they haven’t thought about what they’ve wr…” – Mindly.Social Paulina :coffefied:: “” – Mastodon 🐘 Simple ideas to recharge! Clayton Hove: “https://schulzmuseum.org/the-circle-continues/” – Universeodon Social Media
I keep forgetting about Tweetdeck
After publishing the article Make Twitter useable with the Tweak New Twitter Chrome extension about making Twitter better, I was reminded about Tweetdeck by Kathryn Jensen. What is Tweetdeck? Tweetdeck is available at https://tweetdeck.twitter.com. It provides a different interface to Twitter, separating different views in to columns. This gives you a great overview of what’s…