Source: cyberpumpkin.zone
Here’s a fun little website to get you and your students ready for a virtual Halloween. Draw your carving on the left side, and a virtual knife will carve out the pumpkin on the right side.
When finished, students can share their creation through the address, here’s mine, or they can take a screenshot. Sharing the address is cooler because the creation can be rotated on the screen.
Anki is an open source flashcard app. There are apps for the major operating systems, macOS, Windows, Linux, along with iOS and Android. You’ll notice that ChromeOS was mentioned. While it is possible to sync decks with the OS version to be viewable on the web, this workflow has too many hoops to jump through…
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…
Source: Contexted | The relational note-taking app There is no shortage of note taking apps, and we are richer for it. Contexted coolest feature is the ability to interlink notes. In fact, to create a new note you enclose some text with double brackets, which will then create the new note and link to it….
Writing is an enjoyable activity, but you can really hamper yourself if you don’t have the proper tools. Whether you can’t find the motivation to write, have trouble collecting your ideas, or struggle with grammar, the right apps can really help. Source: Write Better on Your Mac With These 9 Apps and Tricks Any article that…
Using Minecraft to promote literacy. Source: Treasure Island | Minecraft: Education Edition What do you get when you combine Minecraft with Treasure Island? You get a very cool way to dive deep into the book. Litcraft has recreated Treasure Island in Minecraft, and Microsoft has put together several resources on using Minecraft in your classroom.
TIC-80 is a fantasy computer, patterned after retro computers from the 80s. I’ve mentioned PICO-8 before, and if you have used it, then TIC-80 will feel right at home. The big advantage of TIC-80 over PICO-8 is that TIC-80 is completely usable in the browser. That means it will run on anything with a browser,…