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Good morning from Maine, the place the wind howls and the temperature drops quickly. We had deliberate to ski at the moment, however the wind and ice have upset our plans. So as an alternative of snowboarding, we will lounge round the home ensuring all the pieces is prepared for Santa’s go to tonight. I predict consuming cookies and consuming sizzling chocolate in our close to future as nicely. I hope you have got one thing equally enjoyable and stress-free to do at the moment.

There have been two developments in my skilled life this week. First, I used to be employed to be a part-time ski teacher at our native ski mountain. I’ve all the time stated that I want to educate bodily schooling, that is in all probability the closest I’ll get to that. Second, this week I introduced a brand new on-line course that I shall be working for 4 weeks in January.

These have been the preferred posts of the week:

1. How a generator works and different brief classes on producing electrical energy

2. 17 instruments for the collaborative creation of thoughts maps and flowcharts

3. Tips on how to acquire photographs by Google types

4. Slideator – Add your voice to nearly any kind of slideshow

5. Tips on how to crop sections of your YouTube movies

6. Some reflections on AI in schooling

7. Create animations from audio in Adobe Specific