Using Minecraft to promote literacy.
Source: Treasure Island | Minecraft: Education Edition
What do you get when you combine Minecraft with Treasure Island? You get a very cool way to dive deep into the book. Litcraft has recreated Treasure Island in Minecraft, and Microsoft has put together several resources on using Minecraft in your classroom.
ArtBeats simple sequencer where you can create visual patterns and listen to them, with the ability to change the instrumentation, tempo, swing, and more. With ArtBeats, making music is easy and fun! Importance of music in education There is a growing body of research that suggests music can have a positive impact on children’s education….
LuminPDF is free for students and teachers to use to edit and annotate PDFs Free for educators Back in April of 2022 LuminPDF announced that all of the premium features of LuminPDF were now free for educators and students in their classroom. After filling out a short form on their website they’ll be able to…
Google continuously iterates versions of Google Docs, but as it does, there are sometimes parts of Google Docs that aren’t update. The appearance of adding links in Google Docs hasn’t been updated with the rest of the app, but this is now changed. Although it is strictly a cosmetic change, it does help students use…
Last night, as I was procrastinating working on a lesson for today, I came across Slides.com. As always, I get bored with my current presentation software of choice (currently either Google Slides or Keynote) so it was neat to play around with something new. Slides.com works pretty much as you would expect, and the editor is…
Source: ActiveLit Via: “ActiveLit” Lets Students Play & Create Choose Your Own Adventure Games In Virtual Classrooms | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… To create the stories, you use Quest to write interactive fiction. Quest is available online and as a Windows download. The stories play out very much like the Choose Your Own…
Source: popped Popped is an only writing platform that allows you to write dialog and stories just like if you were texting. Once you sign up (the site requires users to create an account, and it doesn’t offer any other account type other than email address) you can start your story. The site will ask…