Now here’s something I just learned. After highlighting words on a web page, you can drag the highlighted words to the tab bar and Chrome will perform a Google search. The same thing happens when you drag the highlighted words to the url bar.
This requires a little more effort than right-clicking on the highlighted words and selecting Search Google for … but options are always good!
Source: Lospec If you have students that are working on programming their own game, or maybe they just want to create some clip art for a presentation, Lospec provides an online editor that doesn’t require a log in. There are also tutorials and other materials to help you or your students travel down the pixel…
Anki is an open source flashcard app. There are apps for the major operating systems, macOS, Windows, Linux, along with iOS and Android. You’ll notice that ChromeOS was mentioned. While it is possible to sync decks with the OS version to be viewable on the web, this workflow has too many hoops to jump through…
Story Speaker lets anyone create talking, interactive stories with no coding required. Just write your story in a Google Doc, push a button, and every Google Home device linked to your account can play it, instantly. Source: Story Speaker by Mike Lacher & Nicole He – Voice Experiments This is very, very cool!
Dave’s Mapper is a fun little site for generating fictional maps. The main purpose of the site is to generate maps for role playing games, but it could also be used by students in the classroom. Design projects such as creating a town or community could benefit from this tool, allowing the students to easily…
Google Dataset Search is a search engine for various sets of data available on the internet. This could be used by students to find more information out about something they are studying. To use the site, you visit Dataset Search and start typing the kind of data you want. Dataset Search will search as you…
Source: Add Reminders – Google Sheets add-on I wish I had this a couple of years ago. It would have made it a lot easier to remind students when they had presentations or projects coming up.