Source: Micropolis Online
Have you ever thought about what it takes to run a city? What if you wanted your students to try their hand at running a city? The game SimCity came out all the way back in 1989, and now you can play a facsimile with Micropolis.
You can sign in with a Google account and the game will save your progress. From there, start laying out your city.
Apester is a platform that provides free online storytelling tools, engaging your users in the narratives they read. The rise in mobile adoption and social media have fundamentally altered the way we consume content. Today’s content must be visual, interactive and concise, available across multiple platforms, and accessible on demand. This is the new generation…
Source: Get started | Learning Synths This article is for all of the music teachers out there. Ableton is a software and hardware company that creates products to be used in music production. Their website, Learning Synths, teaches the reader all about synthesizers with a series of interactive activities.
Source: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required Game Builder on Steam is currently in beta for Windows and Macintosh and allows you and your friends to create 3D multiplayer games. I played around with it, and it’s not as easy to use as the article suggests. If you have a programming class with…
Not quite useful for school settings, but if you use personal Google accounts, then the family updates will make sharing easier. I can’t wait to try this out with the shared calendar. Right now we have separate calendars for each family member, that’s shared with each person. Which you would think would work swell, and…
GoArt is really cool, it takes a photo and applies different art styles to the photo and creates art. I gave it the following image: After applying the impressionism effect, I got this: This site would be very useful for art classes when you’re studying different eras and styles, or for when you want to…
Conserve the sound« is an online museum for vanishing and endangered sounds. The sound of a dial telephone, a walkman, a analog typewriter, a pay phone, a 56k modem, a nuclear power plant or even a cell phone keypad are partially already gone or are about to disappear from our daily life. Accompanying the archive…