Source: Animated Engines – Home
Animated Engines and 507 Mechanical Movements are two sites that show animations how the engine or motion works. They would be great supplements to lessons on simple machines or to get a better understanding how machines work.
On 507 Mechanical Movements, not all movements are currently animated, so look for the color thumbnails.
Source: Turn Off the Lights Extension enhance your YouTube Videos I could see this extension being very useful for the teacher when using Youtube or other video in the classroom, along with students who may be distracted when watching video.
Imagine waking up to 20-40 red numbers of unread messages in Slack. Almost all with the expectation of doing something about them as soon as possible. Or having to check them to see what’s urgent and what’s not. This creates stress. Stress doesn’t make you productive. Not being productive means you are not happy. Source:…
Although I’m a little torn on the name, Buncee offers a drag and drop interface for creating multimedia. The projects can then be view-able on the web or on the iOS apps. The gallery has some great examples of seeing how you could use the tool in your classroom. While there is a free tier,…
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: Animated GIF editor and GIF maker As I was preparing for my conference presentations, I needed a cropped animation. So, naturally, I started searching the web for some tools that would let me crop video and I came across ezGif. Not only can you create animated gifs, you can edit and crop video, add…
Source: Trizbort.io | Trizbort.io is open-source adventure game mapping and code generation software based on the Trizbort desktop app by genstein and Jason Lautzenheiser. Here’s another tool that you can use to create maps. I’ve mentioned others in the past, and this one is pretty cool. It doesn’t require you to create an account. Once…