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COVIDawareMN

I downloaded the CovidAwareMN app to my iPhone today. I have heard about this type of technology for some time but had not made the effort until I learned it was being pushed in my home state. CovidAwareMN (CovidAwareMN web … Continue reading →

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Wakelet for student blogs

Wakelet is a versatile tool. Here is my summary of a recommendation I saw on the Ditch the Textbook blog. Jon Fortnoy notes that while older students can have their own Wakelet accounts this is not appropriate for students until … Continue reading →

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Google Photos Capabilities

Google Photos is a great service for storing and organizing large collections of images. It has some amazing capabilities many probably never explore. Here is an anecdote illustrating a capability that can be quite powerful. A year or so ago … Continue reading →

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Teaching to Learn

The potential of teaching to learn is intriguing. Those of us who teach are likely to find the claim that teaching involves learning to make sense. To explain something to someone else, particularly someone who might require clarification and examples, … Continue reading →

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Google vs iCloud Photos

If you are a Google Photos user, Google probably recently contacted you to explain that the free, all-you-can store version of Google Photos is going away on June 1. Additions to Google Photos after that date in excess of 15 … Continue reading →

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YiNote demonstration

YiNote is a Chrome extension allowing the annotation of online videos and the export of these annotations for storage and study. It is this capacity to export the notes taken with links to specific locations in the original video is … Continue reading →

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