“There’s NOT an app for that!” – Part 1

If you’re like me, you’re guilty of downloading more apps than you could use. Some of them were probably used only once. They were free. What did you have to lose? Or maybe you’re using 6 different websites that each do 6 different things in your workflow. One of them needs information from another one…

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Ode to the 8-bit Classroom

The Origin Story In the summer of 2014 I received my very own classroom and became a teacher. I was excited to meet my third-graders in September. I was excited to exercise everything I had learned in my credential program at UCI. But one of the first things I had to do was decide what…

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Samit’s Story

This content was threaded together by the @mrflowbot so that reading can flow more smoothly. If you’d like to try it, send a DM to @mrflowbot. You can read the original thread on Twitter here: @SamitSaini01 was a security officer at London Heathrow Airport (LHR) for 13 years. pic.twitter.com/nlXD4TwNOq — Mr.Dang(); (@8bitclassroom) January 13, 2019…

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PhotoCUE: A Photobooth PowerApp and Flow

Background Before I was a teacher, I had done events photography. Besides the aesthetic aspect, the technical aspects of the art appealed to me. I put a lot of time in thinking improving the efficiency of my process. I was invested in the idea that an event is only as relevant as it is seen;…

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“There’s NOT an app for that!” – Part 2

“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” There’s also no such thing as a free app. An app is free of a transactional cost as long as you trade away a few bytes of data about yourself. We’re all guilty of clicking the “Accept” button as soon as the dialog pops up asking us for permissions. And…

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