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Amazon story telling app Amazon Rapids is now free

Byryan October 10, 2018October 9, 2018

Amazon’s chat-style fiction app, Amazon Rapids, is now free, giving parents and kids unlimited access to the hundreds of stories in its catalog. Previously, the company charged $2.99 monthly for that privilege. Some of these stories will also be available to listen to through Alexa’s Storytime mode, which was launched last summer.

Source: Amazon’s kid-friendly storytelling app is now free, and works with Alexa – The Verge

Amazon Rapids would be a good way to offer content on Amazon Fire tablets, Android, and iOS devices. Unfortunately, these means that the content isn’t available on Windows or Macintosh machines. This also includes Chromebooks, unless your Chromebooks support Android apps.

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Create interactive lessons with Sutori

Byryan June 16, 2021June 16, 2021

Source: Presentations for the classroom | Sutori I’m surprised I haven’t read about Sutori before. Sutori is based around its concept of stories. A Sutori story is a lesson that can be displayed as a web page or as a presentation. What’s cool is that you can plan out the lesson with activities and information…

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Create your own learning games online with Wisconsin’s Technical Colleges’ GameBuilder

Byryan December 15, 2017December 20, 2017

Source: GameBuilder – Wisc-Online OER Via: Make An Amazing Number Of Different Learning Games With “GameBuilder” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… The questions for the games are multiple choice. GameBuilder would be a good way to have students “compete” in small groups or for when the students start to get burned out with yet another…

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🙋‍♂️ How to Quickly Create Google Docs in a Specific Folder: A Step-by-Step Guide

Byryan January 5, 2024April 8, 2024

Google gives us several different addresses that we can enter to quickly create the different types of Google documents. However, this dumps them all in the root of your Google Drive. I’ve written directions on creating links to place the new files in a specific folder and shown how to quickly create documents. However, creating…

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Google’s Canvas is a whiteboard for your projector and a canvas for your students

Byryan May 2, 2019May 2, 2019

Canvas is a free drawing tool from Google that is pretty cool. Students can use it to draw and sketch, while teachers can use it as a chalkboard or sketch noting with a projector. The tools are limited to sketch, there isn’t a text tool or any shape tools. That being said, if you have…

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AI generated faces in the classroom

Byryan May 24, 2019May 24, 2019

This Person Does Not Exist is a website that uses artificial intelligence to create faces of realistic looking people. It’s uncanny how good the pictures look, knowing that they are computer generated. There were a couple that looked a little off when I looked through several of the pictures, but a majority look real. These…

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New additions to Adobe Spark, I mean Adobe Cloud Express

Byryan December 14, 2021December 14, 2021

Source: Introducing Creative Cloud Express | Adobe I have a feeling that Adobe is feeling a little bit of heat from Canva. Canva is totally free for teachers to use with their students to create all sorts of multimedia. Adobe Spark has also been available for free to education, and it has a lot of…

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