40,000 pieces of art now available from the Smithsonian
The Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian museums has released a complete digital copy of their collections. The Open F|S initiative is free to use for non-commercial purposes.
Back in February I fell down the rabbit hole of digital planners. As I watched YouTube videos on the planners, I was struck by how labor intensive it was to create the stickers. Well, it was time to teach like a hacker and automate the process. After a couple of hours, I had a script…
UPDATE October 2020 – Google Sheets now has a randomize range option. I’ve also created a video demonstrating the randomize range option. Use the randomize range option With the randomize range option, it’s a piece of cake to randomize a list of students. Let’s say you have a list of students: To randomize the range,…
Source: Penguin Classics Cover Generator After your students write the next great American novel, the next step is to create a cover. The Penguin Classics Cover Generator is a tool you can use to get that cover. For my example above, I grabbed a picture from Unsplash and uploaded to the Penguin Classics Cover Generator….
Source: Create emoji masterpieces with any image using this fun web tool – The Verge Sometimes a web tool comes across your desk that you didn’t know you needed, and the Emoji Mosaic site is one of those tools. Feed it an image, and it will recreate that image using emojis. I really don’t know…
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve thought a lot about the meaning and purpose of life. Well, at least the purpose of life, the answer to the meaning of life is 42. And I’ve been on too many conversations to count on what should be the purpose of education. So let’s read a random sampling of vision…
Source: Reshot: Uniquely Free Photos I’ve written about Unsplash before, and while their pictures are really nice, they can be overused. There have been times when I’ve seen the same shot on several different websites. Reshot is another source of images. The pictures are released under a very permissive, they can be used for non-commercial…