If you are a strict advocate of the “flipped classroom” model you will probably say that what I am going to tell is not exactly “flipping” anything, and you may be right. However, working with students who may not have…
Category: Miscellaneous
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An SSD drive makes a HUGE difference on your laptop or PC…
Recently, SSD disk drives have become much more affordable than they used to be not so long ago so I decided to test what it would look like on my laptop. Does it make a real difference in performance? Sure!…
Let your students show their thinking using Educreations and Seesaw
Many times, making your students “show their work” is one of the challenges you have to face, specially if you work with 2nd graders… So I am trying to find out if using a technology tool can make this thing…
DIY Projector Screen and Innovation Station
Some ideas if your classroom does not have a huge Projector Screen or Innovation Station attached to it… 🙂
The Hour of Code is here
Computer Science Education Week starts now. Learn more about it on: https://hourofcode.com/us Hour of Code McBee ES intro
Word challenge
Description Word Challenge is an app meant to help learn 800 high frequency words in English, their pronunciation and spelling. The program is divided into 32 levels, each having 25 words. To practice the 800 words, you can choose between…
Leaves in autumn…
It’s not about the tool, it’s about the project. However, the tool counts too…
Although I’ve always thought that depending on third-party tools is never a good idea, it is also true that it is almost impossible to be able to maintain your tech tools based only on projects you can host under your…
Documenting EeePCs S.O. upgrade to dual boot system with Linux Mint 12 (Gnome / MATE) without partitioning HD.
CONTENT INDEX Introduction Motivation General description of the process Technical procedures description Step by step description of system install and cloning of the units Procedures to be repeated in all units for basic dual boot setup Procedures to be used…