Each spring, the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation dedicate a week to celebrating the protected spaces in our communities. Today, we’re bringing the national parks to you in a Google Earth guided tour through 31 different parks around the country. Source: Explore U.S. National Parks in Google Earth What a cool set…
I haven’t quite decided whether Coffitivity is brilliant or not. If you or your students need a little background noise but don’t want music, then Coffitivity is for you. The player has several different locations of background sounds that you can listen to, so you or your students can bring in the sounds of working…
Vidnote is a simple Youtube video player that allows you to add time stamped notes to a video. It doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles of other services, but if you are looking for something simple and easy to use, check it out. To get started, click the Delete Notes link to remove…
I’ve mentioned the world’s Most Dangerous Writing App, and to join it, I bring you Write. You select a time limit and start writing. Don’t stop, or you will lose everything you’ve written. When done, it will save your document to your local machine. Students will want to copy/paste their document into their word processor…
“Keyboarding was a new skill and computers were driving home the need for everybody [to learn to type],” Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing developer Mike Duffy tells The Verge. “And then suddenly, everybody had to do it and do it reasonably well. People had an interest on their own, but it was also parents thinking of…
Source: Tall Tweets – Convert Google Slides to GIF and Tweet! Tall Tweets is a free online tool that you and your students can use to create animated gifs. Although the site mentions creating gifs and tweeting them, you don’t have to use Twitter or even have an account with Twitter. You do need a…
Source: Glide – Amazing apps from Google Sheets I’m planning on writing a longer article on using Glide, but it looks way too cool not to share now. For free, you can create a mobile app based on a Google Sheet. For now, here is their intro video on the website.
G Suite’s journey began 15 years ago with the introduction of Gmail in 2004. Back then, Gmail pioneered a new and secure approach to email with 1GB of free storage and lightning-fast Google search built right in. Gmail continues to help people manage their work and personal lives with the help of useful innovations—from priority…
Source: Qlearly – Modern Bookmarks and tabs manager Here’s another extension to help you manage your tabs and bookmarks in the browser. It borrows a little from the design of Trello, placing your tabs and bookmarks on boards, and each board can contain several columns. For the free service you can have a max of…
Source: Create emoji masterpieces with any image using this fun web tool – The Verge Sometimes a web tool comes across your desk that you didn’t know you needed, and the Emoji Mosaic site is one of those tools. Feed it an image, and it will recreate that image using emojis. I really don’t know…