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SignCommand Good, PowerPoint Better
This fall, Liberty-Benton installed an electronic sign in front of the high school. I was asked to help with the management of the content that is displayed on the sign and to train others who would help with content creation. … Continue reading
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Tagged electronic, powerpoint, sign, SignCommand
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Ten Years of Scratch
Ten years ago, I was teaching a multimedia graduate class in which we were looking at different multimedia environments that could be used to develop educational content. The course culminated with an Adobe Flash project, but we explored other applications … Continue reading
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Tagged education, hour of code, programming, scratch
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PowerPoint the new Microsoft Video Editor
A long time ago on an operating system far from Windows 10, there was a video editor called Movie Maker. At some point, someone decided a video editor was too much for most people to handle, and it was removed … Continue reading
Google Drive File Stream is Magical
In September, Google announced Google Drive App will no longer be supported starting December 11, 2017. Two different applications are replacing the Google Drive App. Those apps are “Backup and Sync” and Google Drive File Stream. Backup and Sync is … Continue reading
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Tagged App, backup, cloud, Google Drive, Google Drive File Stream, Sync
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Drag Racer (Scratch)
Scratch is an amazing coding environment for beginner programmers. Here is an easy to play two-player drag racing game. Each player uses only two keys. One key accelerates the car. The second key shifts to a higher gear. Since there … Continue reading