Source: Flag Stories
This site is hard to explain. Ferdio breaks down all of the worlds’ flags and aggregates various aspects of each flag. For example, there is a graphic showing the relative popularity of each color of the various flags.
Source: Home : Hypothesis This is a neat service. Once you install the browser extension, you can click the toolbar icon to get a menu on any page you visit: From there, you can highlight text or add comments for anything on the page. Where this gets powerful for classrooms is when you start creating…
Story Speaker lets anyone create talking, interactive stories with no coding required. Just write your story in a Google Doc, push a button, and every Google Home device linked to your account can play it, instantly. Source: Story Speaker by Mike Lacher & Nicole He – Voice Experiments This is very, very cool!
Let Google spell out that number for you. A neat feature of Google search that I didn’t know about. In the Google search box, you can type a number and append =english to the end, and Google will give you the English pronunciation of the number. I tried various other languages, and it appears this is…
Number Frames is an interactive math site for teaching frames. Using frames, students can learn how to count by 5,10,20, and 100 with a drag and drop interface. Users can change colors, use different shapes for counting, and draw directly onto the surface. This site could be used by the teacher to introduce math concepts to…
Source: Greenshot Everyone has their favorite screenshot tool, and more pop up every day. Greenshot came up in my searches for a screenshot tool for Windows and it is currently my favorite screenshot tool. Greenshot only works on Windows and Mac, and is only free on Windows. If you want to run it on the Mac…
I stumbled upon another option to record screencasts with Chrome and Chromebooks, CaptureCast. This extension has some nice features that the Nimbus tool doesn’t have. Most notably, webcam, Google Drive, YouTube, and Vimeo support. With CaptureCast, you can overlay your webcam video onto the screencast, or record only your webcam. Once you are finished recording,…