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Adobe has acquired Uru, a computer vision company that helps marketers understand how they could leverage advertising inside videos, according to a post on the New York-based startup’s website today. Uru isn’t exactly a household name — in fact, the company has been fairly quiet about its activities. Its software is supposed to understand the…Read More
Indie developer 11 Bit Studios announced earlier today that its newest game Frostpunk has sold 250,000 copies in 66 hours since its release. The bleak survival simulator came out on April 24 for PC and pits players against the elements as they try to build a city and society that can endure the bitter cold of a global ice age. Due to its success, t…Read More
SPONSORED: Presented by TiE Elon Musk invested $100 million of his own money into The Boring Company for his hyperloop project. William Boeing started his aircraft manufacturing company because he didn’t want to wait for months to find replacement parts to fix broken planes. William Wrigley’s offer of free gum to customers who bought his baking pow…Read More
Following a Bloomberg report last November that Apple is planning an augmented reality headset under the code name T288, a wild new Cnet report claims that the headset will include both AR and VR features, as well as multiple cutting-edge technologies — dual 8K displays, next-generation wireless, and 5-nanometer processor components. Like Blo…Read More
The founder of SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, is one of the world’s leading tech investors. He has pushed for Sprint, perhaps his marquee American investment, to merge with T-Mobile.
T-Mobile and Sprint, the nation’s third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers, announced a nearly $27 billion merger deal on Sunday that could dramatically reshape the telecom industry while testing the appetites of consumers and regulators alike for further corporate consolidation.
T-Mobile and Sprint, the nation’s third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers, announced a nearly $27 billion merger deal on Sunday that could dramatically reshape the telecom industry while testing the appetites of consumers and regulators alike for further corporate consolidation.
The police-technology giant behind Tasers and body cameras sees the allure of face recognition: Catching dangerous people shouldn't be “left up to random chance.”
Facebook told British lawmakers on Thursday that it never read the terms and conditions for an app that allowed Cambridge Analytica to access 87 million users’ names, “likes” and other personal information.
Kilmer hears from organic farmers on Peninsula Peninsula Daily News
Kilmer said the Farmer's Market Local Food producers promotion program, Value Added Producers program, and Organic Cost Share program that takes existing farms looking to transition into organics, are not included in the current bill. The Monday event ...
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UMN farm to build community gathering space Minnesota Daily
The organic farm on the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus is raising money to create an outdoor gathering space and expand its crop plantings this spring and summer. Members of Cornercopia — the student organic farm and laboratory, which is ...
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Horse Power on Display at West Virginia Farm Lancaster Farming
“Eighty percent of working draft horses in the United States are Percheron,” he said. Prillaman showed how his animals are groomed, from brushing and cleaning each hoof, and how the harnesses and collars are put on their backs. Showing different pieces ...
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From alpacas to poultry, agriculture census shows Washington's farming roots The Spokesman-Review
The census measures far more than animal populations. On the 24-page form, farmers are asked how much acreage they farm, the animals and crops they raise, the sale value of products and their own demographics. Mertz said the results go much further ...
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Dean's Nutrition Corner-Eat for the Planet: Three Ways to have an Eco-Friendly Diet Wicked Local
Step 1: Eat Organic Produce The debate between organic produce and conventionally-farmed produce is a constant force in the nutrition world, but the science seems to point pretty concretely to the fact that the organic farming process does less damage ...
TodaysMeet is shutting down. James Socol, the creator and only developer of TodaysMeet, has announced that he's shutting it down on June 16th. I'm going to miss it and I know that a lot of you will too. I encourage you to read the announcement that James posted because it will give you a good understanding of how much sacrifice goes into producing and maintaining some of our favorite free tools.
I was introduced to TodaysMeet by Sylvia Rosenthal Tolisano nearly a decade ago and I have used it ever since in classrooms, professional development workshops, and during keynotes. TodaysMeet provided an easy way to give every student a digital voice in classroom discussions. TodaysMeet has been my go-to backchannel tool for so long that it's going to take some time to settle on the best alternative, but here are the alternatives I'm going to be using in various settings over the next few weeks.
Tozzl Tozzl is a chat platform that allows you to quickly create private, password-protected message boards as well as public boards. To get started visit Tozzl and select "create a new Tozzl." Then you can name your message board and set a privacy password (optional). Tozzl assigns a new, unique URL to each message board. On your message board you can add sections for chat, file sharing, to-do lists, and YouTube videos. You can also import the feed of a Twitter hashtag into your Tozzl boards.
Backchannel Chat
This is a service that provides exactly what its name implies. On Backchannel Chat you can create a free backchannel room (AKA chat room) in which you can post comments and questions for your students to respond to. Your students can respond in realtime. Students can ask you and their classmates questions within the confines of your Backchannel Chat room. The free version of Backchannel Chat limits you to 30 participants at a time.
Google Slides Q&A
The Q&A function built into the presentation mode of Google Slides is a good option for gathering questions from students when they are viewing slides that you or their classmates present. For now, this is probably the option I will use during keynote presentations.
Mentimeter Mentimeter is an audience response tool lets you create polls and quizzes for your audience to respond to during your presentations. Responses to open-ended poll questions can be displayed as a word cloud, but there isn't a true chat function in Mentimeter. You can create and display polls and quizzes from the Mentimeter website or you can use their PowerPoint Add-in to display your polls and quizzes from your slideshow. Your audience members can respond from their phones, tablets, or laptops.
GoSoapBox GoSoapBox allows you to have your audience respond to questions through their laptops, tablets, and phones. Polls and Discussion in GoSoapBox are the meat and potatoes of the service. The Polls tool allows you to survey your audience by having them select an answer choice in response to a question. The Discussions tool allows you to have audience members reply to open-ended questions. One of the simplest yet effective survey options in GoSoapBox is a tools called a Confusion Meter. The Confusion Meter allows members of your audience to simply say, "yes, I get it" or "no, I don't get it." The Confusion Meter, like all of the GoSoapBox survey tools, can accept anonymous feedback. You can use the Social Q&A tool in GoSoapBox to have students submit their questions to you. Students can see each other's question submissions and vote them up if they want to.
AnswerGarden AnswerGarden is a neat service that allows you to embed a open-ended feedback tool into your classroom blog or website. With an AnswerGarden embedded into your blog your students can simply type responses to your question and see their responses appear in a word cloud. Creating an AnswerGarden is a simple process that does not require you to create an account. To get started go to the AnswerGarden homepage and click "create AnswerGarden." On the next screen you will enter a question or statement for your students to respond to. To share your AnswerGarden with students you can give them the link or embed the AnswerGarden into your blog as I have done below. Optionally, before sharing your AnswerGarden you can turn on moderation of responses and set an admin password.
Thanks to Kathi Kersznowski for alerting me to the closure of TodaysMeet.
Good morning from Maine where spring is in the air. Lately, we've had some rainy days mixed with wonderfully warm and sunny days. That's a winning combination to make the flowers grow start to sprout in our gardens. It's also great for getting outside to walk, run, bike or just enjoy not having to wear a parka. Wherever you are this weekend, I hope that the weather lets you get outside for fun too. And if the weather isn't great, take some time to catch up on this week's top stories on Free Technology for Teachers.
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The latest update to Book Creator for Chrome includes a feature called "Read To Me." Read To Me is a text-to-speech function that reads the words on the pages of any book created in Book Creator. Read To Me highlights each word as it is read aloud. The pages of the books automatically turn when the end of a page is read aloud.
Read To Me works in Chrome, Safari, and Edge. It also works within the iPad app.
Book Creator's Read To Me includes the option to change the speed at which the text is read aloud. You can also specify whether or not words are highlighted and whether or not multimedia elements are played within the book when Read To Me is enabled.
