Building a city in space with Final Earth 2
Source: The Final Earth 2 by Florian van Strien The Final Earth 2 is a futuristic colony management game. The earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Make your city grow from a single exploration ship to a huge…
Create interactive lessons with Sutori
Source: Presentations for the classroom | Sutori I’m surprised I haven’t read about Sutori before. Sutori is based around its concept of stories. A Sutori story is a lesson that can be displayed as a web page or as a presentation. What’s cool is that you can plan out the lesson with activities and information…
Create timelines with Timetoast
Source: Timetoast timeline maker | Timetoast timelines Here’s a pretty cool looking timeline creator app. Timetoast (the free version) allows users to create public timelines. Unfortunately, I didn’t see any mention of an educational discount for the paid tiers, which add collaboration features. Also, there is only a Facebook login, so students will have to…
A comic, free web video editor, and increasing web accessibility – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/06/summer-break-for-teachers-comic/ https://eduk8.me/2021/06/totally-free-web-based-video-editor/ https://eduk8.me/2021/06/increase-web-accessibility-with-the-someity-chrome-extension/
Stop reading from Slides with Presenter View #YouTube
Your students may not be comfortable with presenting in front of the class, causing them to simply dump everything on to each slide and read from the slides. By using Slide notes and the Present with notes view, students no longer need to feel like they need to put everything they want to say on…
Removing things can also be an improvement
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Life seems to get more complex every day, and for some things, we only have ourselves to blame. Although the mantras of Less is more and brevity is wit are well known, putting that thinking into action is…
Bookshlf curates book lists using people
Source: Bookshlf Can’t find a book for a student? Check out Bookshlf. It is a service where the curation of books happen by people, not algorithms. Think of it as Pinterest, but for books, not pictures. And like Pinterest, you need an account to see more than a few posts in a category. For Bookshlf,…