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Play the classic version of Minecraft for free in your browser

Byryan May 11, 2019May 11, 2019

In honor of Minecraft’s 10th anniversary, Microsoft has created a website called Minecraft Classic. This is the original version of Minecraft released in 2009. It only works in creative mode, but you can invite up to 9 others to build with it. Unfortunately, it looks like there is no way to save your creations.

Minecraft Classic‘s limitations will bother students who have used a recent version of Minecraft. Users are limited to 32 different types of blocks, and the controls are iffy. For example, I don’t think the ability to fly is in this version.

Even so, this could be a pretty awesome site to use in your class! Students could recreate scenes and rooms from books, illustrations for their own publications, and more.

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Tune is a Chrome extension that uses AI to remove toxic YouTube comments

Byryan June 13, 2019June 9, 2019

Source: Tune (experimental) – Chrome Web Store Depending on how your students use YouTube and how they view YouTube videos, this Chrome extension could be pretty useful. The extension could also be used by students studying toxic online culture, comparing and contrasting what online discussions look like with and without toxic comments.

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{Edtech Tool} Learn geography with Where in the World?

Byryan January 20, 2018January 19, 2018

Source: Where in the World? | Guess the Travel Destination! | SuperBreak This test is pretty tough, I would only use it with high school students. When working with a site like this that doesn’t offer any tracking of usage, I have students take a screenshot and turn that it.

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The Creative Commons’ new image search is online with over 300 million images

Byryan May 16, 2019May 15, 2019

Creative Commons is a licence for creative works that allows the creator to offer different terms than what is possible under copyright. Most Creative Commons works are licensed Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) or Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). Attribution means you have to give the creator credit, noncommercial means the work can’t be used in a commercial setting,…

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Explain and Send Screenshots is the quickest and easiest way to create screenshots in Chrome

Byryan August 24, 2017August 30, 2017

Source: Explain and Send Screenshots – Chrome Web Store I’ve been a big fan of Nimbus Screenshot for awhile, but I have a feeling that Explain and Send Screenshots is going to be my go to screenshot tool now. The tools are pretty standard, but my favorite is the numbering text tool. With it you…

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Gifntext can easily add text to an animated gif

Byryan August 31, 2018August 31, 2018

Gifntext can easily add text to an animated gif. After you upload an animated gif or load an animated gif by URL, Gifntext gets started with showing you the tools you can use and help on how to do certain tasks. Gifntext doesn’t look like much, but it is a pretty powerful tool for adding to animated gifs. And…

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{Edtech} Sploder allows teachers and students to create video games

Byryan January 11, 2018January 17, 2018

Source: Sploder – Make your own Games, Play Free Games Before learning Scratch, Sploder could be a good introduction to game programming for students. There are 5 types of games that can be created, and one, Retro Arcade, has a version that runs on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire devices. To save and share games, students will…

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