Essay templates, outlines, and more are available for students at WriteWell

Essay templates, outlines, and more are available for students at WriteWell

Source: Jumpstart Your Essays and Papers | WriteWell WriteWell is a combination of an online writing app and writing resources. After signing in, students can select from a list of essay topics and outlines to help them get started with their writing. These templates can be downloaded as .docx files, so the student does not have…

Riv.yt makes sharing Youtube videos easy and distraction free

Riv.yt makes sharing Youtube videos easy and distraction free

Source: Enhanced embeds & landing pages for YouTube videos. Sure, you can simply send the address of a Youtube video to your students, but then there is the aftermath of related videos and comment sections. There are ways to view Youtube distraction-free, but what if there was an easy way to share a video distraction free…

Use Netflix to reinforce and learn foreign language skills

Use Netflix to reinforce and learn foreign language skills

LLN is a Chrome extension that gives you superpowers over Netflix. It makes studying languages with films/series more effective and enjoyable. Source: Language Learning with Netflix The LLN Chrome Extension adds features to the viewing of Netflix movies, setting up a fun way of learning of reinforcing your foreign language skills. Once a movie is selected,…

Why does school develop confidence in boys but competence in girls?

Why does school develop confidence in boys but competence in girls?

I hear this concern often from the parents of many of my patients. They routinely remark that their sons do just enough to keep the adults off their backs, while their daughters relentlessly grind, determined to leave no room for error. The girls don’t stop until they’ve polished each assignment to a high shine and…

The reason why Goodwill is the 2nd largest provider of online courses

The reason why Goodwill is the 2nd largest provider of online courses

In 2018, more than 31 million people took virtual courses offered through GCFGlobal – a Goodwill Community Foundation initiative – and their online portal, offered in English, Spanish and Portuguese.  This is an astounding number that would rank it just behind Coursera’s reported 37 million registered users in 2018 and more than both Udacity (10 million) and edX (18 million)…

Use Pandora Stories to create a podcast with music

Use Pandora Stories to create a podcast with music

Source: Introducing Pandora Stories! — AMP Playbook Pandora Stories is a way to build podcasts that include songs from the Pandora library. Pandora handles the licensing, you supply the commentary. I’m waiting to be approved, so I can’t see what the interface looks like, but this could be something that musically centered students could get excited…

A checklist to keeping you and your students safe on the internet

A checklist to keeping you and your students safe on the internet

Source: Security Checklist Security Checklist provides you with a checklist of items to look at and check off in regards to internet security. The list is pretty good. When you are working with students you will want to offer additional information since the website doesn’t offer enough explanation of what some of the terms and services means….