A silly simple tool for displaying things like web URLs for an audience to easily see very BIG. Source: GitHub – cogdog/bigify: Need to show a URL to an audience? Bigify it so they can see A great solution to a nagging problem.
Source: Explain and Send Screenshots – Chrome Web Store I’ve been a big fan of Nimbus Screenshot for awhile, but I have a feeling that Explain and Send Screenshots is going to be my go to screenshot tool now. The tools are pretty standard, but my favorite is the numbering text tool. With it you…
“The Chromebook filtering market has become commoditized, and we believed that the time had come to offer our Chrome extension free for public good. Student safety is our priority, and we believe that this offering will spur further innovation in the web-filtering space by pushing other players to try harder” said Vinay Mahadik, Co-founder/CEO of Securly. Source: Web…
Web Maker is a great playground for web developers. If you teach web design, then you’ll want to check out Web Maker. It’s a tool that you or students can use to learn html, css, and javascript, by showing the results of changes in real time. Web Maker is an offline app for Google Chrome. Launching the…
Unio is a free platform for creating lessons and delivering them directly to your students’ laptop screens. It’s designed to let you project a lesson and quizzes onto your students’ screens and have them follow along with you. You can include quiz questions at various points throughout your lessons. Source: Free Technology for Teachers: How to Use…
Number Frames is an interactive math site for teaching frames. Using frames, students can learn how to count by 5,10,20, and 100 with a drag and drop interface. Users can change colors, use different shapes for counting, and draw directly onto the surface. This site could be used by the teacher to introduce math concepts to…
Use Photopea to edit Photoshop files on Chromebooks or in a browser. Photopea is a full-fledged graphics and photo editor that works with Photoshop, GIMP, and Sketch file formats. It supports layers, raster & vector graphics, and a full suite of editing tools. The free version does have ads, but student’s don’t need to have an…
Gravit Designer is a cross-platform vector graphics program. In the past I’ve recommended Boxy SVG as a way to edit vector files on Chromebooks. Boxy SVG works pretty well, but it doesn’t have near the features that Gravit Designer includes. Gravit Designer is a cross-platform tool that runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, and in the browser. Apps…
A lot of the ebooks from Project Gutenberg suffer from poor typography and transcription errors. Standard Ebooks is fixing that: Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professional-grade…
Source: Vookmark – Bookmark videos, watch later Vookmark is a web service with one goal, to help you keep track of videos you’ve watched or want to watch. Available on Chrome, Safari, Android, and iOS, Vookmark lets you bookmark a video simply by activating the extension or app. You do need to create an account, but once you are…