Source: Practice typing by retyping ENTIRE classic novels | TypeLit.io
TypeLit.io is a website that let’s you retype an entire novel, and also keeps track of your words per minute and what chapter you are on. I don’t know how useful reading a novel this way would be, but it does allow you to practice typing with real words and sentence structure.
And for those that type in the entire 2,002 pages of The Count of Monte Cristo, kudos to you!
Source: WeTransfer WeTransfer allows you to send a file or group of files of up to 2GB in total size through email or with a link for free. There is also a Chrome Extension, a Firefox Add-on and a Mac App which would make sharing even easier. I could see a service like this being used to distribute teacher created materials such…
Source: Wavemaker, Cross Platform Novel Planning and Writing Software Wavemaker is an only web app designed to help you or your students write books. There are three projects you can start with, and Wavemaker will set up the different chapters for you to jump in and start writing. If that’s all there was to Wavemaker…
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.
When you need to resize and image use the Social Image Resizer Tool. Source: Social Image Resizer Tool So, you took a picture with your smartphone and would like to use it as your Twitter avatar, or post it to the web. The problem is that Twitter will yell at you for uploading such a…
Unio is a free platform for creating lessons and delivering them directly to your students’ laptop screens. It’s designed to let you project a lesson and quizzes onto your students’ screens and have them follow along with you. You can include quiz questions at various points throughout your lessons. Source: Free Technology for Teachers: How to Use…
Source: Tinysheet There are times you need Excel, and then there are times you just want to do some quick calculations. Tinysheet is a great app for the latter. With Tinysheet you get 2 columns and 10 rows in the spreadsheet which are not resizable. The site works very much like a spreadsheet, allowing you…