They’re the things we use everyday and often take for granted, but at one time, none of these things existed. From potato chips to airplanes; indoor plumbing to cars, these technologies at one time were created and then perfected by someone, but who? Today’s infographic takes a look at the people and things behind the tech we use every day of our lives. [VIA]
Corporate and company logos have been around for a long, long time. It’s how we are able to identify trusted brands, or to catchour eye to entice us to try something new. Technology is always evolving, as are the logos of some of the most established and recognized technology company logos. Today’s infographic takes a look at several well known and instantly recognizable logos and how they arrived at their current designs. [VIA]
We always say that we’re continually learning, and this has been true from pre-history on. Whether it’s learning to walk, hunt, paint, or program a computer, learning has always been taking place. It’s just the means and technologies that change over time. [VIA]
We are always looking toward the future, and humans always believe that we can predict what will happen there. From the large to the small, predictions have been made about what will come, and while some were spot on, others have missed the mark totally. Today we look at 13 of these predictions of the future that were way off base. [VIA]
Test-speak and emojis are creeping into more and more areas of our life, even to the point that they’ve entered the dictionary as words in their own right. How many of these do you really know though? Try this fun game to see how many you either know or can guess and see how far you can make it on the path. Check out the interesting “Did You Know” bits as well. A score is found at the bottom! How did you score? [VIA]
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It’s been a long time since I really dedicated myself to the idea of providing links and reviews to different educational apps and websites that you can use in your library or instruction. This occurred for a multitude of reasons, namely my growing young family took up a lot of my free time (as they should!) and some volatility in my own employment between moving and finding the right fit in a school district and library.
Fortunately both of these have settled down a great deal and I want to get back into the swing. I have to admit, I was putting this off a little bit until I attended a great Bureau of Education & Research (BER) Seminar on Monday — “Making the Best use of Technology in Your School Library Program to Support Instruction and Enrich Student Learning” with Deborah Ford. Because my former district was not too keen on sending me out for seminars, trainings, and workshops, I found that I had missed out a lot on the technology end since leaving Palmyra where my tech side was encouraged in 2013. Now at Cumberland Regional, where my inner techie again is being encouraged and fed, I feel the ability to grow and thrive and share and learn again. Frankly, it’s exciting and I need more hours in my day!
While I work through trying and testing the various websites, apps, and tools I was introduced to on Monday (there are so many!!!) I’ll make sure I share them here as I plan and test them out to turnkey to my colleagues here at CRHS. Thank you BER and Deb Ford for re-kindling this in me!
Thanks so much for hanging in and for your continued support. I can’t wait to share and hopefully find something that YOU can use and love as your work through your own teaching and planning.
If you ever have any concerns, questions, or comments — plesae never hesitate to contact me!
–NJB
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“The importance of thoroughly testing new technology is highlighted in this infographic. We take a light-hearted, yet terrifying look at how close the human race has come to destroying all life on planet earth.”
This infographic from Hudman Solutions is a very interesting look at just how close we’ve come to being wiped out here on planet Earth. While these aren’t necessarily the whole place goes boom events, it is scary to think that we were mere minutes away from the total destruction of civilization as we know it — especially when it comes to nuclear tech! [VIA]
Sticking with today’s theme of traffic and car related materials, Traffic Simulator gives you and your students a chance to see how slight changes in road systems, driving patterns, and other factors can lead to major back-ups on our roadways.
The initial pattern on the website is a steady circle of traffic (ring road), and you can manipulate different factors such as the total number of cars on the road, the number of those that are trucks, and the acceleration of those vehicles to show how each affects the traffic in a closed system. Once you’ve played with that and messed up rush hour, you can try the other traffic patterns, such as adding an on-ramp (above), off-ramp, construction, hill, or detour to see how each can also change the traffic. Different elements can again be manipulated to test the roads and demonstrate how different factors can lead to traffic nightmares.
Explanations of some of the physics and psychology of traffic are provided through the links on the sidebar, as well as different ways to use the simulation. Traffic Simulator is a wonderful tool for seeing how traffic patterns can shift and change and what affects them, as well as providing students with some problem solving as they work through how to alleviate the traffic and find the ideal conditions for each roadway.
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