Old Dog New Tech

Jan. 20, 2019 ODNT Episode 38 Keep Content Awesome!!


Listen Later

A pun in the title...This podcast goes with a blog post I did on using Google Keep and Awesome Screenshot to create png's easily.  Take a look at it for more examples of what you can do with these tools.

Sometimes the biggest barrier to integrating tech into the classroom is time. Part of the challenge is also ease of use, both of the tools can take a few uses to get the hang of them, but are worth the few minutes in the long run.

“We do know that when our eyes our open, our vision accounts for two-thirds of the electrical activity of the brain – a full 2 billion of the 3 billion firings per second – which was the finding of neuroanatomist R.S. Fixot in a paper published in 1957 (from blogpost https://www.imagethink.net/true-or-false-vision-rules-the-brain/).” This fact alone should make all educators utilize visuals as often as possible. This is not always do easy to do with the limited time educators have to prepare. So, I thought I might highlight a couple of great tools that make it pretty quick and easy to create an image and insert it into a digital tool.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Old Dog New TechBy Jeff West

  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5

5

6 ratings