Google Sites - Migrate Classic to New #vmvwiki #vmvdlt

Google will deprecate their classic Google sites to the new one. Unfortunately there is a lot missing and makes the new one difficult for educators. Hopefully changes like the ability to template will happen in future.

https://horizon.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/migrate-classic-to-new?utm_source=sites-update-group&utm_medium=post&utm_term=Migrate+PERSONAL+classic+Google+Sites&utm_campaign=new-sites

Sparking Minds online STEM instructions #vmvwiki #vmvdlt

Internet of things, working with raspberry pi or Arduino..

http://sparking-minds.com/

Sent from my Samsung device

Zombie-Based Learning - PBL Geography in a zombie apocalypse #vmvdlt #vmvwiki

While I am not a zombie (or horror movie) fan the gamification approach is gaining a lot of attention.

Standards based curruculum using Project Based learning in a zombie context

http://zombiebased.com/

A millennial Job Interview #vmvwiki #vmvsocial

Tongue in cheek but some interesting observation none the less

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0KjdDJr1c

eLearning In 2018: 7 Trends To Keep An Eye On - eLearning Industry #vmvwiki #vmvdlt

Nothing new here.. similar to 2017

https://elearningindustry.com/elearning-in-2018-7-trends-keep-eye

10 Tips to Make Your PDFs SEO Friendly #vmvwiki #vmvweb

1. Filename

2. Link to PDF

3. From PDF link back to site

4. Use Titles

5. Mobile friendly

6. Compress images

7. Use subtitles

8. Use text (if you can cut & paste it's plain text)

9. In PDF creat alt text for images

10. Track performance

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/pdf-seo-best-practices/59975/

Software Apocalypse #vmvwiki #vmvsw #vmvsocial

For years I have been amazed how software is still complex to write. In 1980 when I worked with DBase2 I could open a file with 1 statement (effectively "Open file" ). The latest iteration of .net has multiple convoluted lines of code attached to libraries that do the same thing. I saw a prototype programming environment from IBM in 1980 that used visual objects to describe the system and processes (a 5th Generation Language) then built the software. However, nearly 40 years code such as  .net looks more like a foreign language than anything resembling a real word process ... where have we gone wrong?????? 

.. and this has led to ...

"Computing is fundamentally invisible," Gerard Berry said in his talk. "When your tires are flat, you look at your tires, they are flat. When your software is broken, you look at your software, you see nothing."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/