Geometry comic, timeline tool, and Chromebook audio editing – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2019/02/comic-life-rules-of-geometry/ https://eduk8.me/2019/02/preceden-a-free-for-students-timeline-creator/ https://eduk8.me/2019/02/beautiful-editor-is-almost-audacity-for-chromebooks/
A TED talk that discusses multitasking your way to creativity
“To do two things at once is to do neither.” It’s a great smackdown of multitasking, isn’t it, often attributed to the Roman writer Publilius Syrus, although you know how these things are, he probably never said it. What I’m interested in, though, is — is it true? I mean, it’s obviously true for emailing at the dinner table or texting…
Beautiful Editor is almost Audacity for Chromebooks
Beautiful Editor is almost Audacity for Chromebooks. Source: Beautiful Audio Editor I hope you like green gradients, because Beautiful Audio Editor is a full feature audio editor that runs in the browser. Students can record directly in to the editor, copy/paste or duplicate audio. Final projects can be exported as mp3 and wav. There is a browser limitation…
Another option to quiet Youtube – DF Tube, Distraction Free for YouTube
Another option to quiet Youtube – DF Tube, Distraction Free for YouTube. Source: DF Tube (Distraction Free for YouTube™) – Chrome Web Store There are several ways to cut out all of the extra cruft that YouTube puts up, and here is another. Once installed, DF Tube is a Chrome extension that gives you the ability to…
See how productive you are in Chrome with the RescueTime extension
See how productive you are in Chrome with the RescueTime extension. Source: RescueTime for Chrome and Chrome OS – Chrome Web Store RescueTime is a Chrome extension that will automatically track how long you use different websites. It categorizes the websites, so you can see how much time you spend in Google Docs vs time on…
Preceden – A free for students timeline creator
Preceden – A free for students timeline creator. Source: Preceden Timeline Maker: Create a Professional Timeline in Minutes There are probably as many different ways to create a timeline as there are to create a presentation. The free version is limited to 10 events on the timeline, but that is probably still enough for most…
#OETC19, Snow Day, and typing emojis – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2019/02/my-presentations-at-the-ohio-educational-technology-conference/ https://eduk8.me/2019/02/comic-another-snow-day/ https://eduk8.me/2019/02/easily-type-emojis-in-chrome-with-this-addon/
Are you not on social media? Even so, it can still predict what you’ll say
Using a database of past tweets, they were able to effectively pick out the next words a user was likely to use. But they were able to do so more effectively if they simply had access to what a person’s contacts were saying on Twitter. Source: Social media can predict what you’ll say, even if you…