XKCD Passwords
I’ve finally got round to changing my 3 default passwords using this method. I have 1 for banking. 1 for my main social media and blogging accounts and then 1 for all the other sites I subscribe to.
The team at Desmos.com have released a fantastic online graphing calculator that draws graphs as you type – it’s brilliantly clear and responsive and will be a fantastic free tool to use in the classroom. This tool will be part of the wider Desmos suite of software which aims to allow teachers to share and create quality…
Well the cold snap in the UK has given me the first two days of 2010 school year sat at home in front of the fire. I’ve been really busy of late so it’s been good to get some time to concentrate on my E-Learning role. I have been meaning to write an E-Learning newsletter…
I came across the excellent Scratch programming tool via an interesting discussion on Classroom2.0. I’m planning on investigating it a little more in the near future, there are a wealth of mathematical possibilities for it from algebra, logic, geometry, probability etc etc etc. However I’ve been thinking of a quick way in to it for…
It’s exam time again already, and with it came the usual request from my Head of Department for any innovative ideas of how we could approach revision / lay on extra things for the Year 10 & 11s before there first exam next month. This prompted a memory of a newspaper article about a school…
Talk about NUI – Natural User Interfaces (no touch). Obvious plug for Kinect. Showed Anybot robot that allows you to attend a meeting without actually being there. Talked through other examples of such tech. Challenges of creating Kinect: Have to be able to capture body pose. Come in many shapes, sizes and flexibilities! Depth camera made all this…
Typerighter is one of the best designed web apps I’ve ever come across. You can try it out here. You’ll be presented with a completely blank web page. In which you can type. And that’s it! The user interface is non-existent, the options appear non-existent, it’s just a blank page that gradually fills with text…