Another option to quiet Youtube – DF Tube, Distraction Free for YouTube.
Source: DF Tube (Distraction Free for YouTube™) – Chrome Web Store
There are several ways to cut out all of the extra cruft that YouTube puts up, and here is another. Once installed, DF Tube is a Chrome extension that gives you the ability to hide different sections on the YouTube screen.
We’ve answered why to screencast and what to use to screencast, but now, what do we do with the movies of the screencasts? Screencasts to YouTube The biggest video sharing site is also a great place to share out videos. YouTube takes care of converting the video so it can be viewed on almost any…
TinyTap is a social platform which empowers families, teachers and students to learn from each other by creating their own personalized interactive lessons and games and playing thousands of new ones shared daily by a worldwide community of educators and learners worldwide.Together we are building the world’s largest marketplace for educational games – a community…
Create sequence diagrams with very simple text markup. No dragging around shapes, no manually drawing arrows. Just write out the sequence in text and get the nice looking flowchart. Source: WebSequenceDiagrams – Draw UML sequence diagrams online in seconds File this under Very cool but may be too cumbersome to use. WebSequenceDiagrams.com allows you to write out…
Source: Linguix Free Writing Assistant Linguix is a grammar checker and more that is available as a Chrome extension and a website. As a Chrome extension, it is available for writing on various websites. I’m currently using it in the WordPress editor as I write this post. The extension and website do require an account…
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.
In my never ending quest to maximize the amount of work that needs to get done I’m constantly evaluating ways of managing my task lists. I’m currently settling into two systems, depending on the tasks that need to be completed. Google Keep Google Keep is Google’s limited answer to Evernote. While it doesn’t have near…