This feature is an interactive visualisation of the East India Company’s trade between 1760 and 1834. Use the map, line graph and sparklines to select markets, commodities and date ranges to explore.
Source: East India Company
A powerful visualization and animation of the dominance of the world’s most powerful company from 1760 to 1834.
Axiom is a Chrome application that can organize your digital media plus annotate and collaborate with them. The service can be used to collect documents, including multimedia, for various uses, such as collecting homework or brainstorming ideas by marking up the documents or multimedia. There is a free level which allows you to store 10…
Once students get into high school, building a résumé becomes an important skill for students to learn. Novorésumé is an online résumé builder that is free to use. Unfortunately, students have to go through the sign up process before they can start building. Once signed in, students can select a format and start completing their resume. I recommend…
Source: Social Media Time Alternatives – Omni Calculator I view social media the same as candy. It’s nice to have as a treat, but if it is all you do, then your going to have negative consequences. Here is a calculator that shows what you could accomplish if you weren’t mindlessly scrolling through your feeds….
Source: Free Technology Curriculum from Google – Applied Digital Skills Applied Digital Skills is a free website by Google that offers technology lessons for staff and students (middle school and older). There are tons of lessons available online to help you or your students learn new skills. When I use online lessons like this, I…
I haven’t quite decided whether Coffitivity is brilliant or not. If you or your students need a little background noise but don’t want music, then Coffitivity is for you. The player has several different locations of background sounds that you can listen to, so you or your students can bring in the sounds of working…
GEICO’s latest commercial takes aim at narcissistic supervillains: “As long as evil villains reveal their plans, you can count on GEICO saving folks money. Fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.” To be sure, GEICO is poking fun at the iconic villain trope that, by now, we all know gives our…