A Treasure Trove of Interactive Games and Experiments for Science Teachers

April 27, 2016The Lawrence Hall of Science is a great educational website from University of California, Berkeley. It provides a wide variety of resources to engage kids and students in learning science.  It also offers ‘a comprehensive set of programs to help increase the quality and quantity of great science learning that kids get both in and out of school.’ As a teacher, you can use The

6 Excellent Google Translate Features Every (Language) Teacher Should Know about

April  27, 2016Translation is a complex linguistic activity because meaning is elusive. Language is an inherent social activity and it takes more than mere syntactic and grammatical competence to arrive at the ‘presumed’ meaning of an utterance. Things such as contextual cues, cultural presuppositions and social settings all work in unison to shape and construct potential meanings. That’s why

Corpse Party coming to 3DS and PC is some scary good news

Chris and I are both tremendous fans of these games. I still remember playing the first one on my PSP years ago, and I adored it. So this bit of news was more than welcome - and will likely have Chris and I arguing over who gets to play which version on why system. The digital PC is already out and we have a review upcoming, but these other versions are worth keeping an eye on as well.News

Blues and Bullets - Episode 2: Shaking The Hive - Xbox One Review

It has been a long wait - a very long wait. Admittedly, one of my concerns about episodically released games has always been the 'what if?' when too much time passes between episodes. Blues and Bullets nearly tests that theory with an eight month hiatus since Episode 1 released. Thankfully, for those who enjoyed the format of the initial chapter, they will find a lot to like here as Blues and

Full deployment of Droid Turbo 2 Marshmallow update begins

Motorola has announced that the company has started "full deployment" of the Droid Turbo 2Marshmallow update. The announcement - as usual - came in the form of a Google+ post from the company's senior director of software product management David Schuster.But, didn't the roll-out start early last month, you might ask. Well, that's a valid question, which unfortunately Schuster didn't answer in

Microsoft says will continue supporting Windows 10 Mobile "for many years," new devices coming

Microsoft's sales numbers might suggest that its Windows 10 Mobile platform is taking its last breaths, but the Redmond, Washington-based company seems to be in no mood to retreat.In an email sent out to several company executives and partners, the executive vice president of Microsoft's Windows and Devices Group Terry Myerson has made it clear that the company is committed to the OS platform and

How to Track Calls and Data usage on Android using Callistics

Every android device comes with pre-installed programs used to check call histories, check values of data usage and some other recorded stuffs like that, but these histories don’t last, within few weeks, or just couple of days, it wipes off. However, android system allows you to record only the first 500 call histories. This is the more reason you need an advanced program to do all the tracking