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Trollfactory is another resource to help teach about misinformation online

Byryan October 15, 2019October 15, 2019

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.

That being said, teachers could use the site to gather materials and information on how social media is used to influence others.

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Brick Block is a neat “build your own city block” free web tool

Byryan May 24, 2017May 31, 2017

Brick Block is a design experiment where you are given a city block, and you can build your own building. Left click builds, right click destroys. Clicking and dragging on the base allows you to rotate your creation. It’s fun to play with in a Minecraft sort of way, although it is very limiting compared to…

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Google Calendar changes for showing short meetings

Byryan July 16, 2020July 16, 2020

Source: G Suite Updates Blog: Better visualize shorter meetings in Google Calendar Nice usability feature for Google Calendar. Any meeting scheduled for less than 25 minutes will show the length in the calendar event.

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Students can create multimedia ebooks with these 5 tools

Byryan January 10, 2018January 17, 2018

Writing a multimedia ebook or magazine can be a good way for students to illustrate and or further explain portions of fiction and non-fiction stories that they develop. Multimedia publishing tools that include a collaboration component can further help students as they work together with each other or with you to improve their work. Source: Free…

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Tab Hover Cards and Tab Hover Cards Images are coming to Google Chrome – but you can try them now

Byryan July 3, 2019June 25, 2019

I don’t really know if hover cards are something I really need. But, since I’m a user that usually has so many tabs open that each tab is reduced to its favicon, I’m willing to give hover cards a shot. Once enabled, mousing over a tab will show the page title and site domain name….

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CloudConvert has an iOS app

Byryan January 30, 2016January 30, 2016

Yesterday I mentioned CloudConvert as a simple way of converting files, in that case, converting a Google Slides document to a series of graphic images. When I was playing around with CloudConvert, I found out they had an iOS app. I downloaded the app and it works pretty much as expected. It doesn’t require registration, and…

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Create animations with ToonClip.com

Byryan June 16, 2020June 17, 2020

Source: ToonClip – Create meme animations in minutes ToonClip may not be polished and the available graphics are limited, but it’s still a pretty cool site. Once you put your graphics in your canvas, you can write a script to control the graphics. You are not limited to the built-in graphics, you can upload your…

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