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Bookmark and add notes to YouTube videos with Bookmark It

Byryan January 19, 2022January 19, 2022

Bookmark It is an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to bookmark and comment on the bookmark in a YouTube video.

The bookmarks and comments are not shareable, so the extension is useful in the classroom when a teacher wants to use a YouTube video in the classroom. The bookmarks allow the teacher to easily jump to specific places in the video.

Signing up for a free account allows you to sync the bookmarks and notes across browsers.

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How to Print a YouTube Video – Storyboard Bookmarklet

Byryan July 2, 2016June 30, 2016

The other day I came across a web app that allowed users to print GIF animations as flipbooks. The site – gifprint.com – isn’t working anymore but the idea is nonetheless interesting. The app extracts all the image frames of the animated GIF, arranges the individual frames in sequence, like a contact sheet, and then…

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Save PDFs directly to Google Drive with the updated Save to Google Drive extension

Byryan February 3, 2021February 2, 2021

Source: Save to Google Drive – Chrome Web Store Although Chrome currently lets you “print” a PDF directly to your Google Drive, this feature will be removed in future versions. That functionality is being replaced by the Save to Google Drive Chrome extension. Once installed, you activate the extension by clicking on it. The first…

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Apple’s Swift Playgrounds can help you learn to code, but it’s no HyperCard

Byryan July 14, 2016July 14, 2016

Sure enough, 45 minutes into the 2016 WWDC keynote, Tim Cook—not an SVP, but Tim himself!—unveiled Swift Playgrounds for iPad, “a new way to learn to code.” Because I’d been thinking about it, I had my tweet ready: “I personally think a way to learn Swift is not what the iPad needs—it needs a 21st Century…

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Twitter Chats for teachers #YouTube

Byryan July 25, 2021July 18, 2021

Learn how to engage and build your personal learning network with Twitter chats. Twitter chats use the concept of hashtags to group tweets together. You can also reply to questions directly on Twitter, and the site will keep your reply with the original Tweet. Calendar of education related Twitter Chats.

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Getting started with an RSS reader #YouTube

Byryan March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

RSS is an acronym for Real Simple Syndications – It can be used to follow your favorite sites. Once you follow a site, only new articles are pushed to you. And, once you read them, they are marked as read so you don’t re-see the same articles over and over. You also have more control…

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How to create a Google Sites template or copy a Google Site for students #YouTube

Byryan April 8, 2021April 8, 2021

Google Sites is a great way to publish a website, but, Google doesn’t make it easy to distribute a template of a Google Site to your students or other staff members. I have figured out one way to easily copy a Google site. This allows you to make a template of the site and then…

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