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Bring the coffee shop ambiance to your classroom with Coffitivity

Byryan April 27, 2019April 26, 2019

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 in a coffee shop or other places.

I’m not a premium user, so I don’t know if you hear a Yee Haw while listening to the Texas Teahouse.

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Simple calendaring with TinyMonth

Byryan November 20, 2021November 18, 2021

Source: TinyMonth Need a quick calendar, maybe even on to share with a group for a project, but your normal calendar is too heavy? Then do I have a site for you! TinyMonth gives you a zoomed out view of a calendar on which you can block of dates and label the dates. Here is…

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Record podcasts and interviews with only a browser using Cleanfeed

Byryan March 17, 2020March 17, 2020

Source: Cleanfeed Cleanfeed is an audio recorder that lives entirely in the browser. You can use it to record yourself, or add others to the conversation. The account holder needs to be at least 16 years old, so using the service with students would be limited to the latter part of high school.

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Use bigify to share URLs or information with an audience

Byryan September 5, 2017September 6, 2017

A silly simple tool for displaying things like web URLs for an audience to easily see very BIG. Source: GitHub – cogdog/bigify: Need to show a URL to an audience? Bigify it so they can see A great solution to a nagging problem.

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Replacing Google Keep with the Doc Builder add-on for Google Docs to insert snippets

Byryan June 11, 2019June 9, 2019

Source: Doc Builder – Google Docs add-on Teachers have to create a lot of documents, such as lesson plans and lesson activities. To create a new lesson plan, the workflow usually consists of copying an older lesson plan and editing that. This works ok, but it is cumbersome when you want to take various bits…

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Google announces auto grading of quizzes in Google Forms

Byryan June 30, 2016June 30, 2016

This week at ISTE Google announced Quizzes in Google Forms. It adds the ability to automatically grade quizzes in Google Forms, as long as the questions are multiple choice, checkboxes, or dropdown. The other types of questions are not supported. To create a Quiz in Google Forms, start a new form. Click on the gear…

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Sown To Grow – help students track their growth

Byryan July 26, 2016July 25, 2016

Source: Sown To Grow Do you want a more student oriented grade book? One where the students report their progress for various activities allowing them to reflect on what they’ve learned? Then check out Sown to Grow. To use Sown to Grow, teachers add any activity that students will be completing in the classroom. Students…

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