We’re all doing a lot of work from home, and some times we need to scan documents. Without the school copier, how can we scan documents? If you have a smartphone, you can also scan! Scanning vs taking a picture The simplest way to scan is to take a picture of the document. Taking a…
Source: Duolingo ABC – Learn to Read on the App Store Duolingo is known for it’s line of language learning apps, and now they are getting into the learning to read arena. Due to the numerous school closures, Duolingo is making the reading app available early. The app has no ads or in-app purchases and is…
Source: inkle blog – inklewriter lives again! I posted about Inklewriter way back in 2016. It is a tool much like Twine for creating interactive stories. Inklewriter is now back, and free to use on the web. There are several new features, but the biggest is that Iinklewriter is now open source. That means your…
Source: Cleanfeed Cleanfeed is an audio recorder that lives entirely in the browser. You can use it to record yourself, or add others to the conversation. The account holder needs to be at least 16 years old, so using the service with students would be limited to the latter part of high school.
With the rise of quarantines and travel restrictions, several companies are offering their video conferencing tools for free for a few months. This could come in handy for schools looking at alternatives to Blizzard bags, which used in locations with a lot of snow for days schools are closed. I don’t know what you use…
We’re introducing search chips in Gmail, an easier way to sort and filter search results to find exactly what you’re looking for faster. For example, you can search a colleague’s name and further narrow your results by selecting search chips like attachment type (Text document, Spreadsheet, PDF) or a specific timeframe. You can also filter…
Source: borogove.app/ Interactive fiction (IF) was in its heyday in the 80s. It is a video game written as an interactive story where the player takes parts as the story unfolds. There is still an active community behind current IF, and tools such as borogove.app is an easy way to get started. Writing a program…
AI Dungeon 2 may not have appeared on The Verge’s game of the year list, but it’s one of the coolest video game experiments of 2019, and it’s now playable in its easiest form yet. AI Dungeon 2 is an adventure game run by a text generation program, capable of responding to basically any command with a coherent response. Its earlier versions…