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I know you probably didn't mean that, but as a teacher (not in the US, so the rest of the discussion does not apply to me), I find the sentence "We did all their homework before we left" rather disturbing.

Or as I once read, "Life is an STD with a 100% mortality rate".

Twelve days, but who is counting... (ever heard of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"?)

The NYT link is currently pointing to the same Quartz article as the previous bullet point.

This, so many times. The amount of times a kid comes up to me in class to tell me that his browser keeps crashing, only to find out that he has installed a bucketload of crap extensions...

A question, while the recommendations come in: which of these sites are good for people outside the US? Is it worth buying through these and paying for shipping, or to buy locally and risk smaller range / older stuff?

This sounds interesting, but it also prompts a more general question. Does this app need both parent and child's devices to be under the same Google Play account?

I am a secondary school teacher, and Pomodoro has been a great find for crunch time - that is, report-writing time. In that particular weekend when the deadline is looming close, a couple of instrumental jazz playlists on 8tracks and a timer on tomatoi.st is what gets me going until I have produced about 120-odd

You did notice that there is a MacBook air, and iPad mini, a rooted Nook, and that although there is no phone featured, I am sure Whitson carries at least one...

That is one of the things that annoys me. On my particular keyboard layout, the / is not a "base" key, but Shift+7. Alt+7 or Alt+Shift+7 don't do anything of the sort. I do wish developers took these things into consideration when creating keyboard shortcuts...

Generally agree with the sentiment in your post. There are a few things that Docs / Sheets still does not do well, and that my students (high school sciences) find frustrating. One is merging cells in a table in Docs (it makes data tables look horrible), and the other one is chart styles, especially with some sensible

Do your students have Google / Google Apps accounts? If so, try Doctopus. Basically, you create a spreadsheet with a list of email addresses and then you can launch documents on your students - either individual documents for each student, or group work. If you want to use it even further, take a look at the entire gCl

Very happy to see my two favourite add-ons on that screenshot. As a school teacher, Flubaroo and Doctopus are just fantastic.

I am also a high school teacher, and next fall I will be taking on the role of Technology Integration Specialist in my school. While we do not actually have any online courses, we use a variety of online systems to manage our classes. Here are some things we use, and some things I'd like to try out.

Any word about international availability? Yes, I know, VPN and what-not, but it still surprises me that services such as Spotify or 8tracks manage to work across borders, and yet Pandora was made unavailable for us European folk more than five years ago, without apparently making any effort to overcome these hurdles.

As a high school teacher, this is probably my second biggest pet peeve (first one is the use of Comic Sans...)

Absolutely agree on Doctopus - it has been the staple of my classroom management this year, combined with gClassFolders. Glad that it appears as an add-on now!

The flip side of a scenario like Google acquiring Mailbox [...]

I am a high school physics teacher. We tend to find it hard to get girls to take higher physics courses - either because they feel it is "too hard" or because they find other science courses (e.g. biology) more in tune to their expectations. From your experience, what can we do to capture kids' imagination,

Hmmm... Kinja must compress the images when uploading...