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Minecraft for Education edition coming to the iPad in September

Byryan August 21, 2018August 21, 2018

Today, we are excited to announce we’re bringing the magic of Minecraft: Education Edition to iPad. Now, students can tap into the power of iPad to build historic monuments, swim through coral reefs with the Update Aquatic, bring creative stories to life, experiment with chemistry, and document their learning with the camera and portfolio features.

Source: What’s New in EDU: Minecraft: Education Edition expands to iPad – Microsoft EDU

It’s awesome that Microsoft is supporting the iPad in this way. Maybe Chromebooks will get some love next?

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Make tables prettier in Google Docs with the Table Formatter add-on

Byryan December 4, 2019December 2, 2019

Source: Table Formatter – Google Docs add-on Sure, you could set the background color and text color yourself, but the computer is supposed to make things easier! The Table Formatter add-on gives you the ability to style your tables, making them stand out like never before.

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{Edtech} Anchor’s ease of use just got better!

Byryan February 27, 2018March 7, 2018

Source: Anchor – The easiest way to make a podcast I’ve mentioned Anchor before, but their latest update demanded another post. It is still free to use, and now you can use a web interface or a mobile app to record your audio. Each snippet of audio can be edited together to form a podcast, which…

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Save pictures using Chrome in the format you want with the Save image as Type extension

Byryan April 12, 2023April 11, 2023

Although we are familiar with JPEG and GIF images, a lot of websites have been switching over to WEBP.Unfortunately, that format isn’t compatible with some things, so here are a couple of ways to save that image as a more compatible type. Image file types Pictures on the computer come in various forms, such as…

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Use WriteReader with students for digital publishing and classroom ebooks

Byryan May 9, 2017May 10, 2017

WriteReader looks like a fun and easy way for students to digitally publish their books. The site is free to use, there are only costs if you would like a print or download a book. If you would like access to ebooks you can use in your classroom, then checkout the WriteReader library. There are…

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The Creative Commons’ new image search is online with over 300 million images

Byryan May 16, 2019May 15, 2019

Creative Commons is a licence for creative works that allows the creator to offer different terms than what is possible under copyright. Most Creative Commons works are licensed Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) or Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). Attribution means you have to give the creator credit, noncommercial means the work can’t be used in a commercial setting,…

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Youtube url tricks from MakeUseOf

Byryan February 6, 2019February 6, 2019

Though YouTube remains the premier video site on the web, you probably don’t think much about customizing it. But whether you’re a casual user or watch online videos every day, there are all sorts of ways to tweak YouTube. A major category of these are special YouTube URLs. Let’s look at some YouTube URL…

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