Source: Ship – shapeWright.com
Here’s a fun little ship generator that builds a spaceship based on the words you feed it. I could see this being used to create graphics for stories. In science, students could figure out what a space ship would have and label those parts on their own ship.
Help your students evaluate internet resources with the Britannica Insights Chrome extension. Source: Britannica Insights – Chrome Web Store The Britannica Insights extends the Google search results with an additional panel of information that links to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Google has already been doing this with Wikipedia links. The extension doesn’t show for all search results. For example,…
Amazon Rapids offers a playful approach to children’s reading, with illustrated and original short stories written in a unique chat style that brings stories to life, one message at a time. Source: Amazon Rapids Amazon Rapids is a subscription service that offers short stories for kids aged 7-12. The interesting aspect of this program is the format…
Help students with Dyslexia with the Chrome OpenDyslexic Font extension. Source: OpenDyslexic Font for Chrome – Chrome Web Store This extension switches the fonts used on websites to the OpenDyslexic Font, a font designed to help people with dyslexia. Once installed, there is a switch to turn it off or on. In my testing it…
Itty bitty sites are contained entirely within their own link. (Including this one!) This means they’re… ?Portable – you don’t need a server to host them ?Private – nothing is sent to –or stored on– this server ?Easy to share as a link or QR code Itty bitty sites can hold about as much as a printed page, and there is a lot you can do with…
Source: Linguix Free Writing Assistant Linguix is a grammar checker and more that is available as a Chrome extension and a website. As a Chrome extension, it is available for writing on various websites. I’m currently using it in the WordPress editor as I write this post. The extension and website do require an account…
YouTube offers a bunch of handy editing tools that often go overlooked by users. One of those is the option to rotate videos that have been shot in vertical mode when they should have been shot horizontally. Source: Free Technology for Teachers: Handy, Overlooked YouTube Features A great video showing off these YouTube features.