TikTok, why are teenagers so addicted to it?
Originally posted by Vincent Dong on February 10, 2019 TikTok (Chinese: 抖音) is an app which provides users a platform to share their short videos. In the past two years, TikTok has become so popular that it has become an icon of subculture, and many young people are even addicted to this app. This has already become a […]
Daylio – Data Mining to Improve Self-Awareness
Originally posted By ariana debreuil on January 8, 2019 This is a resource I was shown a couple of years ago when on the topic of mindfulness in the classroom. Daylio is an intuitive, user-friendly, easy to use way to record your mood. This can have applications outside of the classroom of course but in terms […]
Google Arts and Culture Mobile App
Originally posted By stephanie kwok on January 14, 2019 An app that I’d like to share is the ‘Google Arts and Culture’ app for mobile devices. As an art teacher with interests in technology, I find that this is a good fusion of both curricular areas. It puts a modern spin on things when incorporated into […]
Google Translate
Originally Posted By Laurie Campbell on May 26, 2018 Three years ago in this course, Lane Hardy surveyed mobile translation apps available at the time. He pointed out that Google Translate had not yet incorporated WordLens’ augmented reality ability, and that we were still a little way away from the science fiction-inspired Universal Translator from Star Trek. […]
Wireless Sensors
Original post by Graeme Harkness on July 30, 2018. For the past 5 or 6 years we have been trying to gather enough sensors to outfit our biology, chemistry and physics labs. Sensors can detect properties such as CO2/ O2 concentration, pressure, temperature, pH, light absorbance and much more. The problem is the sensors are […]
Mobile Literacy- eBooks & AudioBooks
Originally posted by Carri-Ann Scott on February 10, 2019. My focus for this assignment was mobile literacy, particularly eBooks and their AudioBook cousins. I am interested to see if, as an educator, I can use the fact that my students are already tech-savvy in Kindergarten to get them hooked on reading and what benefits the advent of […]
Digital Scent
With VR we can already see and hear. We might as well add touch, taste, and smell. With our phone our we can already send pictures, voicemails, and even videos. Have you thought about sending scents via the phone? Back in the days we never thought that we could do all these things without a […]
InsertLearning: Insert instructional content on any web page
Originally By David CHO on September 12, 2019 InsertLearning was developed by two high school teachers who wanted to create a more abundant learning experience for their students. So they decided to help teachers turn the Internet into an interactive learning experience and InsertLearning is the byproduct of it. Teachers can insert questions, discussions, and […]
Niche Podcasting
For my Resource Mining post I chose a somewhat unconventional topic – hunting podcasts. I understand hunting itself is a controversial topic but please hear me out. Hunting podcasts are very much a niche market and it is an example of how podcasts do best when they target a select audience with specialized content. In […]
Pearson MathXL
I looked at Pearson MathXL because my son used it in school and he could talk about it. I could not try it out for this review because I could not find a free trial link. I do not believe there is a free trial as the website tells me that I need an access […]