Source: Troll Factory I’m pretty apprehensive on sharing this site. It was designed to teach people on how social media can be used to enrage others, but the language and themes are very inappropriate for 10 graders and below. Juniors and Seniors may see value in the site, but I would get parental permission first….
Source: Chemix – Draw Lab Diagrams. Simply. If you are a science teacher or in a lab setting, Chemix allows you to create illustrations of lab equipment. These illustrations can be used in documents for students, or students could use the site to enhance their own notes.
Source: Lospec If you have students that are working on programming their own game, or maybe they just want to create some clip art for a presentation, Lospec provides an online editor that doesn’t require a log in. There are also tutorials and other materials to help you or your students travel down the pixel…
Source: Draw! Sometimes you just need a quick and easy easy way to jot down notes and drawings during a meeting. Draw! is a no-frills online whiteboard. It uses the open source library called Literally Canvas. For what it does, it works well. Whiteboards can be saved or exported, no logins are required.
Source: Rocket Note – Chrome Web Store Geez, I don’t mean to be on a Chrome extensions kick, but here we are. Rocket Note is a Chrome extension that lets you take limited, time-stamped notes on Youtube videos. Unfortunately, there isn’t a way to export or share your notes, but it does come in handy…
Source: MindMeister – Google Docs add-on The add-on is not a replacement for full mind mapping software, but for sprucing up a report, it will do fine. The add-on takes a bullet-ed list and creates a mind map out of it.
Notion, the sleek and sophisticated note-taking app, is going free for the education market. The company said today that teachers and students who sign up with an academic email address will get a free upgrade to the premium version of the software, which entitles them to unlimited uploads, storage, and version history features. The service has…
Source: Chrome Remote Desktop Hat tip to Lance Yoder over at Edgaged.net for this tip. In his district, instead of trying to wirelessly display a mobile teacher device, he flipped it. Instead, the teacher uses Chrome Remote Desktop to control a PC hooked up to the TV. This set up bypasses most of the issues…
Source: Extensity – Chrome Web Store There are times when you want to quickly disable or enable an extension, without going through the process of opening the extensions tab. Extensity adds an icon to your toolbar to quickly enable or disable an extension. After clicking on the icon, all of your extensions are shown. Disabled…
Source: Add Reminders – Google Sheets add-on I wish I had this a couple of years ago. It would have made it a lot easier to remind students when they had presentations or projects coming up.