I get asked a lot about uses for the Raspberry Pi. Well, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has you covered. Hello World is an online magazine for educational Raspberry Pi users. Available for free as a PDF, it is published three times a year with articles for the making teacher. The magazine is even a better…
One of the greatest productivity tools that I use is a clipboard manager. A clipboard manager is a piece of software that allows you to store multiple items in your clipboard at once. Each manager gives you options on how long to keep items and what to do with items such as passwords. With the…
Source: The funniest TED Talks | TED Talks What can I say, it’s all in the title. Ok, maybe I will add a comment. These talks could be an incentive to get students to watch Ted Talks in a new light, one where the students realize that they could actually enjoy a Ted Talk.
Source: Build Cheat Sheets and Share Your Favourites! – Cheatography.com: Cheat Sheets For Every Occasion No, not that kind of cheating. Cheat sheets for keyboard shortcuts, tips, and more for technology topics. At first glance the cheat sheets look pretty high tech, but you can search for various apps, such as google or microsoft.
Source: Tune (experimental) – Chrome Web Store Depending on how your students use YouTube and how they view YouTube videos, this Chrome extension could be pretty useful. The extension could also be used by students studying toxic online culture, comparing and contrasting what online discussions look like with and without toxic comments.
Book Creator is an app and website created to help you and your students create books. There is a free level that you can use, and when you’re ready to update, you’ll see that their pricing is pretty reasonable. The creation of books can take place with the Chrome browser or on iPads. To help…
Source: Doc Builder – Google Docs add-on Teachers have to create a lot of documents, such as lesson plans and lesson activities. To create a new lesson plan, the workflow usually consists of copying an older lesson plan and editing that. This works ok, but it is cumbersome when you want to take various bits…
