Free IWB software, coding, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2019/10/ti-draw-is-an-online-interactive-whiteboard/
https://eduk8.me/2019/10/ted-ed-has-a-new-youtube-series-for-kids-about-coding/
https://eduk8.me/2019/10/comic-why/
I found CaptureCast to be a worth screencasting tool for Chrome and Chromebooks, and I have discovered a new use for it. Since you have full control of what CaptureCast captures, you can use it as a quick webcam recorder or as a plain audio recorder. To capture audio, click on the CaptureCast icon in your…
Speak is an extension for Chrome that performs text to speech. You may already know about Speak-It, but it has two issues that may not work for you in your district. One is the fact that is free for non-commercial use only. Does a school district satisfy that requirement? I don’t know. The second is…
I’ve talked about group chatting with IRC, Slack, and Bindle, and recently stumbled upon Gitter. The interface is a lot like Slack, but, unlike Slack, you can have public or private rooms (with the free plan private rooms are limited to 25 participants). Every user is required to have a Github account, and those accounts are…
https://eduk8.me/2020/11/sitting-in-a-meeting-eduk8meme/ https://eduk8.me/2020/11/one-syllable-comic/ https://eduk8.me/2020/11/brilliant-teaches-math-and-science-in-a-fun-an-interactive-way/
I use conditional formatting for individual cells quite a bit. What’s nice is that conditional formatting can also highlight rows in Google Sheets, which is very possible! Some ways this is useful is when you are analyzing student scores. You can mark rows where the student is proficient in green, where the student is borderline…
Google Docs has offered the ability to insert special characters, such as arrows and emoji, for awhile now. Under the Insert menu, select Special Characters. Google Docs opens the special characters palette. Mousing over the characters brings up a magnification of the characters the mouse pointer is hovering over. The listing of characters is broken up into…