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Another typing game site, Keyma.sh

Byryan December 4, 2021December 3, 2021

Source: Keyma.sh – Take your typing to the next level

I am not a big fan of taking away instructional time for busy work, but I do know that there are times when students need a little practice. Keyma.sh is a typing site that is also set up for competitions. Students can create an account with their school Google account, Discord (13+), or Github (13+).

Some of the scores on the leaderboard are amazing, when I looked at the site the top was 150WPM!

Under the Custom link, students can create their own competition with their classmates. They can deny random guests, and only share the lobby link with their friends. I was able to do this without an account, so even if the students don’t have an account this would work.

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Pixel art with Pixelorama

Byryan November 17, 2021November 16, 2021

Source: Pixelorama I love 80s videogames and creativity tools, so put them together and you get the pixel editor Pixelorama. Pixelorama starts out as a pixel editor, letting you and your students create that 8-bit look that you see in a lot of games. The graphics can be downloaded as .png files and used in…

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Create talking images with Blabberize

Byryan May 1, 2018May 1, 2018

Create talking images with Blabberize.com. Here’s a fun little site that came across my browsing this past week. Blabberize.com allows you to upload a photo, and then animate the mouth with audio you record or have recorded. Unfortunately, you have to create an account to save your work, which may be a problem for younger students. Once…

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Vivaldi – Supercharged history

Byryan November 6, 2018November 6, 2018

Vivaldi – Supercharged history. Browser history is usually not very glamorous, but if you like stats, Vivaldi’s history is where it’s at! Not only can you search your history, you can also see what sites you visit on which days, how you navigate to sites, and which sites are most popular. Vivaldi has put together…

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Save time with this free digital research tool

Byryan September 21, 2017September 27, 2017

I sometimes tell people that when technology evangelists espouse that their tool saves you time, that it’s a red flag warning / code talk for “I am lying”. But here, I share my one, career tested exception; it’s old technology that many people have abandoned. I will wade carefully through the acronym jargon, but it’s using…

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{Edtech} Become the king of fake media with the game Bad News

Byryan March 8, 2018March 8, 2018

Bad News is a Twine-style game designed by members of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab and media literacy group Drog. Its goal is to teach players about digital misinformation by turning them into purveyors of it. You’ll start with a small-time Twitter account and slowly build followers by feeding their appetite for fear and anger,…

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Use AI to create quiz questions from a text with Quillionz

Byryan November 30, 2021November 29, 2021

Source: Quillionz – Login Quillionz is a site that can create quiz questions or notes using artificial intelligence. You feed it a text, select important keywords, and let it do the rest. Although the AI isn’t going to be perfect, this would be a good starting point for creating help texts or quizzes for your…

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