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Sunday Post - Ep. 13 Tech on the Side, now with YouTube

Tech on the Side

Talking all about learning and learners with a side of tech.

Here is how to delete Facebook

Some of us have been on Facebook for more than a decade, but all good things come to an end. Over the past 18 months, Facebook has been in a downward spiral. The social network is in the eye of a c...

Can this robotic fish fool real fish into revealing their secrets?

Pale and plump with a tail that swishes side-to-side, the one-eyed robotic fish was built by scientists at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). It is designed to swim naturally alongside other fish in open water and spy on them without raising suspicions or disturbing their natural habitat.

Peer Feedback with Forms

Class presentations are a lot of fun, and it's essential to give students the experience of speaking in front of others. Very early on in my teaching career, I realized it was difficult to keep presentations flowing, because in the transition time between presenters, students saw this as an opportunity to chat--and they had a...

Apple announces creative education event on March 27

Apple is sending out invitations to an education event on March 27. Using the tagline 'Let's take a field trip,' Apple says that the event will focus on 'creative new ideas for teachers and students' ... We've seen two invitations so far, in the USA and UK, both inviting people to an event taking place at a high school in Chicago.

Sunday Post - Episode 12 Tab-aholic

Tony Vincent on Twitter

🔖 Add more of the webpages you frequently access to Chrome's bookmarks bar by deleting the bookmarks' names (leaving just the icons). #GoogleEdu

Fortnite Battle Royale is coming to iPhone and iPad

Epic Games is bringing its insanely popular Fornight Battle Royale to iPhone and iPad. It will be exactly the same 100-player game you've been enjoying on consoles, with the same map and the same weapons - and it will support cross-platform play between PlayStation 4 and PC.

Slice of Life 2018

Please click on the blogger's orange slice to be taken to their most recent slice of life!

Mario can now guide your route in Google Maps

It's Mario Time! Beloved gaming character Mario is coming to Google Maps, thanks to a partnership between Google and Nintendo ahead of Mario Day, March 10. (MAR10...get it, Mario?) In addition to the various deals and sales on Nintendo games, the mustachioed plumber will also make an appearance in Google Maps' navigation, if you opt in to have Mario accompany you on your journey.

Amazon now lets you talk to Alexa without saying 'Hey Alexa' EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Amazon is today giving Alexa perhaps its most useful update since its inception: You can now speak to the assistant without saying "Hey Alexa" for every single command. The feature, called Follow-Up Mode, simply allows Alexa to listen for another command for five seconds after your last request.

TheTechSpec Blog

from the Flipboard magazine, Tech on the Side, an editorial exploration of curated content. It's Sunday, and as I continue this fun journey of (attempting) to blog each and everyday I thought I would try doing this week's Sunday Post a little bit different than I have done in the past.