Dave’s Mapper is a fun little site for generating fictional maps. The main purpose of the site is to generate maps for role playing games, but it could also be used by students in the classroom. Design projects such as creating a town or community could benefit from this tool, allowing the students to easily create a map for their community.
Source: Meme Generator – Kapwing Who doesn’t like memes? They’re probably second on the list of things shared, right behind emojis. Here is a pretty nice meme generator, along with a ton of other tools. I originally stumbled upon the site as an app to generate memes, and then I found out Kapwing does way…
Open your Google searches faster with the Faster Google search Google Chrome extension. By default, when you click on a Google search result you are not taken directly to the destination website. Google tracks what is clicked on in the search results, taking you to Google servers first and then to the destination website….
Source: P2 — The New Working Several years ago I played with the original P2, a WordPress theme that worked kind of like Twitter. There was a box at the top of the page where you could post your content, and others could comment on it or scroll through the posts in reverse chronological order….
Using the Quill tool, students complete a variety of exercises, including joining sentences, writing complex sentences, and explaining their use and understanding of grammar. The tool relies on a huge depository of sentence fragments, which Quill finds, recognizes and compiles using TensorFlow, Google’s open source machine learning library. TensorFlow technology is the backbone of the tool…
Use Gif Lingua to support reading in your classroom with gifs! Source: Gif Lingua Gif Lingua offers illustrated books online, with a twist. The illustrations are usually animated gifs and the books can be accompanied by a computerized voice reading the book to you. Grade levels for the books are approximate 1-3, although the subject matter…
Source: Troll Factory I’m pretty apprehensive on sharing this site. It was designed to teach people on how social media can be used to enrage others, but the language and themes are very inappropriate for 10 graders and below. Juniors and Seniors may see value in the site, but I would get parental permission first….