Applied Digital Skills from Google is a free curriculum based on tech skills

Applied Digital Skills from Google is a free curriculum based on tech skills

Source: Free Technology Curriculum from Google – Applied Digital Skills Applied Digital Skills is a free website by Google that offers technology lessons for staff and students (middle school and older). There are tons of lessons available online to help you or your students learn new skills. When I use online lessons like this, I…

Play educational games and use interactive lessons with TinyTap

Play educational games and use interactive lessons with TinyTap

TinyTap is a social platform which empowers families, teachers and students to learn from each other by creating their own personalized interactive lessons and games and playing thousands of new ones shared daily by a worldwide community of educators and learners worldwide.Together we are building the world’s largest marketplace for educational games – a community…

Do you miss the Oregon Trail videogame? Then play it in Minecraft!

Do you miss the Oregon Trail videogame? Then play it in Minecraft!

The Oregon Trail is perhaps the most beloved educational game ever made — and soon it’ll be getting a new life in schools thanks to Minecraft. A blocky rendition of The Oregon Trail is now available for Minecraft: Education Edition, a version of the game tailored specifically for classrooms. The new Oregon Trail was created by educational publishing company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and…

Save time with this free digital research tool

Save time with this free digital research tool

I sometimes tell people that when technology evangelists espouse that their tool saves you time, that it’s a red flag warning / code talk for “I am lying”. But here, I share my one, career tested exception; it’s old technology that many people have abandoned. I will wade carefully through the acronym jargon, but it’s using…

The Emoji Map Generator

The Emoji Map Generator

You have probably dreamed all of your life that one day you will have your very own Emoji Map. Well today that life-long dream becomes a reality – thanks to the Emoji Map Generator. Source: Maps Mania: The Emoji Map Generator Emoji, is there anything they can’t do?

Avid’s Media Composer First, a pro level video editing app, is available for free

Avid’s Media Composer First, a pro level video editing app, is available for free

If you’re serious about video editing and are weighing up your software options, two choices usually pop up: Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). But Avid, Hollywood’s go-to editing company, just played a wild card by releasing Media Composer First, a limited version of its pro software, for the hard-to-resist price of “free.” I’m well-acquainted with…

Communicate effectively with parents by using Bloomz

Communicate effectively with parents by using Bloomz

Bloomz makes it easy for Teachers and Schools to safely communicate and coordinate with parents, share media, school events, instantly message parents and more. Parents love it too! Source: Bloomz – The Parent Communication App for Schools & Teachers Via: Why Bloomz is the Best Parent-Teacher Communication System Bloomz expands on the idea behind Remind, with…