Interesting Articles
An article about scientists who debunk online misinformation as a side hustle is in Wired magazine. On Inc.com's website, find out about The 10 Top Skills That Will Land You High-Paying Jobs by 2020. Matt Miller from Ditch That Textbook has a post about ditching annotating PDFs and hyper-annotate instead. Research on how to teach writing is slim, but this Hechinger report article gives a brief summary of what we know.
Hey, Google. What's New?
A roundup of some new features in Google products: Add audio files to a Slides presentation. It is working for me, hopefully it does for you too. Create new Docs, Sheets, calendar, and Google Keep notes, Sites, etc. and other things by typing .new after it (e.g. typing docs.new into the browser creates a new Google doc). Recently, Google has opened up this ability to other sites like Spotify, Medium, eBay, Canva and others. In Google Sites, you can add an image carousel (slide show) and a collapsible text box for a cleaner and more interesting layout.
Library Fines 2.0
All 3 high schools have changed our overdue and fine policies. We used to charge 10 cents a day for overdue books up to the cost of the book. Now, once a book is overdue, students will have 30 days to return it. At the end of that time, the book will be marked as lost and a fee for the cost of the book plus a 3 dollar fine will be added to their PushCoin account. The 3 dollar fine is non-refundable, but the cost of the book is refundable if the book is returned within a year of being marked lost. Of course, we are currently looking at creative ways to help remind the students to return materials on time.
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