A Google a Day
Source: A Google a Day
Here’s a fun Google search activity. When you visit A Google a Day, you are presented with a countdown timer and a question. The quicker you find the answer to the question, the more points you get.
Source: A Google a Day
Here’s a fun Google search activity. When you visit A Google a Day, you are presented with a countdown timer and a question. The quicker you find the answer to the question, the more points you get.
I recently came across a book published in 1968 entitled “How to Build a Working Digital Computer” by Edward Alcosser, James P. Phillips, and Allen M. Wolk. Believers in the “learn by doing” philosophy, they show how to construct such a computer using “simple inexpensive components usually found around the house or in a neighborhood…
But! A recent NYPL project has paid for the already-digitized registration records to be marked up as XML. (I was not involved, BTW, apart from saying “yes, this would work” four years ago.) Now for anything that’s unambiguously a “book”, we have a parseable record of its pre-1964 interactions with the Copyright Office: the initial registration and any potential renewal….
AT GRAVITY SOUND, WE REGULARLY RELEASE FREE MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS UNDER CC BY 4.0 LICENSE.IT’S JUST ONE WAY THAT GRAVITY SOUND GIVES BACK TO THE INDIE COMMUNITY. Source: Free Music and Sound Effects — Gravity Sound The music and sound effects is released with a Creative Commons license, CC BY 4.0, which allows you…
Source: YouTube Captions Search – Chrome Web Store Here’s a pretty cool extension to help your students locate information in YouTube videos. Once the extension is installed, you can search for specific words in videos that have closed captioning or subtitles. It is especially helpful when you are looking for a specific piece of information…
I’ve mentioned in the past about using Pushbullet to send links, text and other information to your students. Yesterday, Google announced the Google Tone. This adds a new icon in the toolbar that when pressed, emits a series of tones that other browsers with the extension installed will hear. I’ve tried it out at home, and…
Source: Free icons by first-class designers Here are some neat graphics that you or your students can use for free. They are in .svg format, so you’ll have to use an app that supports that format. This would include Boxy SVG or Gravit Designer. You could also convert the graphics with CloudConvert.