I learned about this Google Docs addon from Reddit, but I haven’t had much luck in getting it to work correctly. I’m sharing it so maybe you’ll have better luck and can share with me what you did.
Draftback gives you a visual playback of a document’s version history. It could be used to see how a student constructed a paper, among other things. The demo looks sweet!
My team at the Reboot Foundation recently asked a simple question: Is the use of technology in schools associated with increased student outcomes? Based on a study of national and international databases, we uncovered a surprising answer, and our work suggests that there’s actually a pretty weak link between technology and student achievement. Source: Does…
Source: gifcap Last week I mentioned Screen Recorder, which allows you to create a screencast with nothing more than a browser. This week I bring you gifcap, which can create animated gifs with a browser. To start, click Start Recording. Your screen will be recorded until you stop the recording. Once finished, you can trim the…
Source: per.quest | Play an Article Here’s a neat little site. After you give the site the address of a web page, you can either listen to the page content or listen while reading the page. Unfortunately, the site doesn’t highlight the text as it reads, but it works pretty well. No accounts are needed…
Internet Travels Edcerpts are my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week. Apps Microsoft Word has a hidden transcription tool – here’s where to find it | BGR – It’s in the web app version, not the desktop app. Pedagogy…
We now know how to create Google documents quickly, and can even create the new documents in a particular folder. But, what if we have multiple Google accounts? To select the account, we can use the trick we learned on linking to a particular Gmail account. But first, lets review the links to quickly create…
After publishing the article Make Twitter useable with the Tweak New Twitter Chrome extension about making Twitter better, I was reminded about Tweetdeck by Kathryn Jensen. What is Tweetdeck? Tweetdeck is available at https://tweetdeck.twitter.com. It provides a different interface to Twitter, separating different views in to columns. This gives you a great overview of what’s…