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ⓔ Ubuntu Tablet, game shows, and translating – Top Posts of the week

Byryan May 1, 2016May 1, 2016

Last Friday I received my Ubuntu Tablet, and first impressions are definitely mixed. For $300 the hardware seems to be pretty decent, and feels pretty good in the hand. The software, on the other hand, is definitely a work in progress. Quick summary: This tablet is for early adopters only.

Sharing: Game show classroom: Comparing Kahoot!, Quizizz, Quizlet Live and Quizalize

Several digital tools created for the classroom bring those exciting experiences to students with learning as the focus.

Create an mp3 of translated text with Sound of Text

Sound of Text allows you to enter up to 100 characters of text in one of 44 languages. Once you click Submit, the site generates audio of the word or phrase.

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Teach from home,Chromebook printing, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week

Byryan March 29, 2020March 29, 2020

https://eduk8.me/2020/03/teach-from-home-resources-software-and-hardware/ https://eduk8.me/2020/03/google-is-adding-a-native-printing-and-scanning-app-to-chromeos/ https://eduk8.me/2020/03/comic-social-distancing/

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Help students quiet Chrome with AutoMute

Byryan October 14, 2017October 18, 2017

We’ve been there, the class is studiously working on their Chromebooks, researching ancient Rome when, BAM, a student navigates to a site with an annoyingly loud auto-playing video or ad. For those situations, AutoMute can help. Once installed, AutoMute will mute all of the tabs in the browser. The user can then mute or unmute the current tab, giving…

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Highlighting in Google Sheets, Minecraft, and coding – top 3 posts for the week

Byryan June 26, 2016June 26, 2016

ⓔ Highlight the minimum and maximum cell in a Google Sheet column A great way to visualize data in your Google Sheets. 25 Real Ways Minecraft is Being Used in the Classroom An inforgraphic with 25 ways to use Minecraft in the classroom. Apple, Microsoft and Google race to introduce your kid to coding Ways…

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Seth’s Blog: You can’t ask customers want they want

Byryan June 23, 2016June 22, 2016

You can’t ask customers want they want… not if your goal is to find a breakthrough. Because your customers have trouble imagining a breakthrough. You ought to know what their problems are, what they believe, what stories they tell themselves. But it rarely pays to ask your customers to do your design work for you….

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Why Making Is Essential to Learning

Byryan July 25, 2016July 24, 2016

At the heart of making is the idea that all students are creators, and hands-on learning plays a key role in maker education. Source: Why Making Is Essential to Learning It’s funny to me the popularity of the maker movement. I grew up on a farm, and as such, have always experienced the maker movement.

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How Classroom Culture Opens Up When Students Can ‘Patent’ Ideas

Byryan August 12, 2016August 10, 2016

Building a catapult that can hit a target at one, three and five meters is a core project of Ben Smith’s engineering class. When the project is assigned, groups get to work inventing a mechanism that will meet the objectives, often coming up with ingenious ideas. But when Smith noticed his students were increasingly asking…

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