In celebration of the 37th anniversary of Atari’s Breakout game, Google has created and released a version that you can play on your computer. Accessing is Easter Egg-ish in nature. Go to a Google Image Search and search for “Atari Breakout”,…
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Fond Atari Memories
Tagged with: Atari, Atari Breakout, Breakout, Breakout clone, Easter Egg, Google, Google Image, Google Image Search
Posted in Computers, Education, Google, learning, Read/Write Web, software, Teaching
Posted in Computers, Education, Google, learning, Read/Write Web, software, Teaching
GeoGuessr
@nobleknits2 owes me a few hours of my life back! She introduced me to GeoGuessr and it’s been an obsession ever since. It’s a geographic game and the “Guessr” part of the name is unfortunate. If you enjoy geography and…
Tagged with: Australia, Game, Geography, GeoGuessr, Google, Google Street View, New Zealand
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Google, learning, Read/Write Web
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Google, learning, Read/Write Web
Now with Graphics
A new feature to Google Forms appeared without any fanfare that caught my attention. I did not know that you could include images until I sat down to create a new Google Form myself and discovered it. I think it’s…
Tagged with: Drag-and-drop, Google, Google Form, Image
Posted in Computers, Education, Google, learning, Read/Write Web, software
Posted in Computers, Education, Google, learning, Read/Write Web, software
Similarities
For a while, I was a big user of the Google Chrome Similar Site utility. It served me well; I would do a search for something and then use the Similar Site utlity to find sites like the one that I…
Tagged with: Google, OLDaily, Search Engines, Stephen Downes
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Google
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Google
An Interview with Cyndie Jacobs
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview my co-chair for the #ecoo13 conference, Cyndie Jacobs. I call her “the great connector” for her efforts on Twitter and other social media. She seems to hunt out problems in search of a…
Tagged with: web 2.0, Twitter, Google, social media, ontario, Niagara Falls, #ecoo13
Posted in Computers, Teaching, Education, Read/Write Web, PLN, learning, Google, Ontario Edublogs
Posted in Computers, Teaching, Education, Read/Write Web, PLN, learning, Google, Ontario Edublogs
Biggest Takeaway from the Google Summit
I spent the weekend in Kitchener attending the Ontario Google Summit. The neat thing about good professional learning events, in addition to the actual learning, is the chance to renew old friendships and to make some new ones. Of course,…
Tagged with: Eastwood Collegiate Institute, Google, Google Drive, ontario, Waterloo Region
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Google, Read/Write Web, software
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Google, Read/Write Web, software
April 1
One of the days that you really have to be on your toes as a teacher is April Fools’ Day. You never know what your charges will be up to. In reality, it’s not all that terribly difficult to know…
Tagged with: April Fool, April Fool Day, bing, Google, Seth Godin, Sony, Twitter, youtube
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Google, learning, Links, Read/Write Web, Teaching
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Google, learning, Links, Read/Write Web, Teaching
Highlight Your Reading
Recently, I read an article that listed 4 Tools to Simplify the Blogging Process. Yeah, I know, they don’t come much simpler than me. As I read the article, I thought – OK, I’m doing this. Feedly, One Tab, Evernote…
Tagged with: Blog, Chrome Extension, Evernote, Google, Google Chrome, HootSuite - Social Media Dashboard, Web page
Posted in Computers, Education, Google, software
Posted in Computers, Education, Google, software
Learning Together
My learning started today with a sharing of an article to my Twitter stream. It was about a new extension for Google Chrome called OneTab. The claim was that its use would save up to 95% of memory usage. That’s…
Tagged with: HootSuite - Social Media Dashboard, Online Communities, Social network, Twitter
Posted in application, Computers, Google, PLN, Read/Write Web, software
Posted in application, Computers, Google, PLN, Read/Write Web, software
I Think I’m Good
Like many people I was very surprised when the announcement that Google will be discontinued its RSS reader in July of this year. When I first read about this, I was worried. How will I get my news? Then, I…
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