Yet another great week of post from Ontario Edubloggers. Here’s some of the reading that I tucked away for this week’s post. It’s About Character Aviva Dunsiger’s post about Track and Field Day brought some perspective to me. At a…
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Tagged with: Education, ontario, Ontario Edublogger
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Ontario Edublogs, PLN, Read/Write Web
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Ontario Edublogs, PLN, Read/Write Web
About Keyboarding
A great article in Dear Otto today titled “Do Students Still Need to Learn Keyboarding” had me doing a little thinking about it. Learning to keyboard was one of the best things that I ever did for myself. In fact,…
Tagged with: Dvorak, Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, Keyboard layout, QWERTY, Typing
Posted in application, Computers, Education, learning, Read/Write Web, software
Posted in application, Computers, Education, learning, Read/Write Web, software
Fond Atari Memories
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”,…
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
An Essential Web Tool
Tagging on to my thoughts yesterday about life in a browser, there still is a nasty gotcha when working with files. You’ve got this great file and you’re going to do something with it but it’s the wrong size or…
Tagged with: Data Formats, File format, File Management, Google Drive, Graphics Interchange Format, Image file formats, JPEG, Web browser
Posted in application, Computers, Read/Write Web, software
Posted in application, Computers, Read/Write Web, software
Life in a Browser
Yesterday, Alfred Thompson posted an interesting article titled “Why Web Apps?” I read it via mobile and was just going to let it lie but it must have been percolating in the back of my mind because I went back…
Tagged with: Adobe Photoshop, Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, ScribeFire, Web application
Posted in Computers, Read/Write Web
Posted in Computers, Read/Write Web
This Week in Ontario Edublogs
It was another wonderful week of reading in Ontario Edublogs. Here are some of the great things I read recently. The Number Line Sheila Stewart has Klout. Inspired by another blog post, she spends some time sharing her thoughts about…
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
Filling a Dance Card
If you’ve been monitoring the Twitter stream since Sunday evening, you’ll notice that there have been many happy posts from people whose presentation proposals have been accepted for the #ecoo13 conference, BringIT,Together. Indeed, part of the ECOO 13 Dance Card has…
Tagged with: facebook, Twitter, Amber MacArthur, wordle, ontario, Lanyrd, Niagara Falls, #ecoo13
Posted in Computers, ECOO, Education, learning, Read/Write Web
Posted in Computers, ECOO, Education, learning, Read/Write Web
Checking Out the Big Social World
Now, before you read on, a disclaimer. This is in no way an encouragement for you to do all of this. Remember that you have a life, a dog to walk, a family to hang with, a job that needs…
Tagged with: Brand, facebook, Namechk, social media, Social network, Twitter
Posted in application, Computers, Read/Write Web
Posted in application, Computers, Read/Write Web
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