Writing stories, a comic, and a meme – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/11/write-a-story-like-you-text-with-popped/
https://eduk8.me/2021/11/what-are-you-thankful-for-comic/
https://eduk8.me/2021/11/i-need-more-eduk8meme/
Highlight rows in Google Sheets with conditional formatting This is one of the most popular posts on Eduk8me, showing how to highlight a row based on conditional formatting. Twitter tips for new users A checklist for new Twitter users. Adding a timer to a Google Slides A nice little hack for adding a timer to…
https://eduk8.me/2021/12/hang-in-there-eduk8meme/ https://eduk8.me/2021/12/inspire-deep-focused-work-with-the-pomodoro-technique/ https://eduk8.me/2021/12/quickly-create-short-urls-to-anything-without-an-account-using-the-amazon-url-shortner/
Google released its Gboard keyboard a week or so ago, and I’ve been testing it out. Previously, I used the default keyboard the most, followed up by the Swiftkey keyboard, but both now take a backseat to Gboard. Any keyboard I use has to have excellent text prediction. I usually type without looking at the…
We’ve answered why to screencast and what to use to screencast, but now, what do we do with the movies of the screencasts? Screencasts to YouTube The biggest video sharing site is also a great place to share out videos. YouTube takes care of converting the video so it can be viewed on almost any…
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/
I had a brief conversation with a 12 year old boy this month that went as follows: TEACHER: “WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE SUBJECT?” STUDENT: “ART” TEACHER: “WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN ART?” STUDENT: “MAKING CLAY ANIMALS” TEACHER: “WHY ARE YOU MAKING CLAY ANIMALS?” STUDENT: “I DON’T KNOW, IT’S LIKE A MATH TEST. THE TEACHERS GIVE YOU THIS…