Welcome to episode 255 (“Facebook Hates TikTok”) of the EdTech Situation Room from April 6, 2022, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed Twitter news, BigTech / the “Technology Correction,” Microsoft news, Google news, some “tales from family IT support,” and what we might learn from Flat Earther conspiracy theorists. Geeks of the Week included web-based alternatives to popular software applications and a tutorial video on creating print-on-demand paperback books from BookCreator.com eBooks. Check out our shownotes for links to all the articles we discussed, and subscribe to our Substack to receive all the links we discussed and also didn’t have time to talk about in this week’s show in your email inbox! Our show was live streamed and archived simultaneously on YouTube Live as well as our Facebook Live page via StreamYard.com, and compressed to a smaller video version (about 100MB) on AmazonS3 using Handbrake software. Please follow us on Twitter @edtechSR for updates, and join us LIVE on Wednesday nights (normally) if you can at 10 pm Eastern / 9 pm Central / 8 pm Mountain / 7 pm Pacific or 3 am UTC. All shownotes are available on http://edtechSR.com/links. Stay savvy and safe!
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- Twitter is adding an edit button (The Verge; 5 April 2022)
- Elon Musk giving ‘serious thought’ to build a new social media platform (Reuters, 26 March 2022)
- Trump’s Truth Social app branded a disaster (BBC News, 3 April 2022)
- Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up Big Everything (Recode; 5 April 2022)
- Get your facts straight with new Google Search fact-checking features (Chrome Unboxed; 31 March 2022)
- How Activists Use Social Media for Good — and You Can Too (cNet; 5 April 2022)
- Your Digital Footprint: It’s Bigger Than You Realize (cNet; 4 April 2022)
- Opinion: Enough failures. We need a federal privacy law. (Washington Post, 30 March 2022)
- Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok (Washington Post, 30 March)
- Windows 11’s refreshed File Explorer gets tabs, favorites, and a new homepage (The Verge; 5 April 2022)
- Windows 11’s new meeting features improve eye contact, framing, and background blur (The Verge; 5 April 2022)
- You can finally set Chrome as your default browser on Windows 11 with one click again (Chrome Unboxed; 1 April 2022)
- Google Docs will start nudging some users to write less dumbly (The Verge; 1 April 2022)
- Google Docs to get Grammarly-like features in selected Workspace and EDU tiers (Chrome Unboxed; 1 April 2022)
- Google Docs gets expanded Markdown autocorrect support (Chrome Unboxed; 30 March 2022)
- Chrome’s Side Panel receiving private notes, Reader Mode to be renamed “Read Anything” (Chrome Unboxed; 5 April 2022)
- Google Meet will open the flood gates later this year with new YouTube live streaming feature (Chrome Unboxed; 31 March 2022)
- New Google ‘highly cited’ label focuses on tackling misinformation, highlighting original reporting (Mashable, 31 March 2022)
- Changes to how file downloads are handled in Firefox version 98 (Mozilla Support Blog)
- What we can learn from people who take the Flat Earth theory seriously (Grid News, 4 April 2022)
- Jason’s Geek of the Week: 30+ Web-Based Alternatives to Traditional Desktop Apps for Chromebooks and PCs (HowToGeek)
- Wes’ Geek of the Week: Preparing Book Creator eBooks to Print on Lulu.com (19 min)
