We spend all day communicating, and we’ve invented myriad ways to do it. You can buy a stamp, press a button, rent a room or use a microphone. Choose wisely. Source: The appropriate medium | Seth’s Blog Seth can say so much in so few words, each post is amazing. This post reminds the reader…
Source: Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online | Open Culture This collection may be more of interest to history classes versus primary and intermediate classes. The books look really interesting, I really like Elfin Rhymes (mentioned in the article). Since these books are in the Public…
Source: bulb | Digital Portfolios for Education | Online Portfolios for Students and Teachers Portfolios are a great way to curate a student’s best work and as a tool for reflection. Bulb is a paid service allowing staff and students to create eye catching portfolios online. Looking through the example, Bulb can create some very…
Source: Explore — Google Arts & Culture There are so many good sites on the internet, and just when you think you’ve found the best, another one comes along that’s even better. That’s where we are with the site Explore — Google Arts & Culture
Source: xprim.valuraise.com/ I came across Xprim in my internet travels, and it took a little bit to figure out what exactly the site does. It offers polling of participants in a lecture or presentation setting, along with the ability to collect questions. The site is currently free, and could be used in place of Poll…
This is the Allusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, have talked about language and why and how we use it for 100 episodes! Today there’ll be a celebratory parade of language-related facts that you’ve learned from the Allusionist and I’ve learned from making the Allusionist, so some old facts, some new facts – well, the…
Source: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required Game Builder on Steam is currently in beta for Windows and Macintosh and allows you and your friends to create 3D multiplayer games. I played around with it, and it’s not as easy to use as the article suggests. If you have a programming class with…
Source: Redacted Sometimes you just want to quickly do one thing to an image, and launch a full blown image editor seems to be a waste. Here’s one of those tools that you can quickly use to blur out parts of an image. I’ve covered another tool in the past, Image Blur. Redacted does one…