Source: The Final Earth 2 by Florian van Strien The Final Earth 2 is a futuristic colony management game. The earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Make your city grow from a single exploration ship to a huge…
Source: Presentations for the classroom | Sutori I’m surprised I haven’t read about Sutori before. Sutori is based around its concept of stories. A Sutori story is a lesson that can be displayed as a web page or as a presentation. What’s cool is that you can plan out the lesson with activities and information…
Source: Timetoast timeline maker | Timetoast timelines Here’s a pretty cool looking timeline creator app. Timetoast (the free version) allows users to create public timelines. Unfortunately, I didn’t see any mention of an educational discount for the paid tiers, which add collaboration features. Also, there is only a Facebook login, so students will have to…
Source: Create amazing videos with our online video editor – Mastershot Before you get too excited, this video editor appears to be a work in progress. I had issues trimming video and there is no way to snap video clips on the time. As is, this can work in a pinch but it’s not a…
The Someity is a great extension for adding accessibility features to any website you visit. You can: Add voice control Change the font Change the font color Change font size Minimize images in a page Highlight words Use a magnifier on images Emphasize links for color blindness Change the cursor Print the page Screenshot the…
Nightwolfdev over at Dev.to has created a Sports Whiteboard app. It’s pretty limited in its functions, but sometimes that’s all you need. At the bottom of the screen is a toolbar. Selecting a person or a ball allows you to drop that item on the board. Deselecting all of the tools allows you to drag…
The Android Google Drive app has a very cool feature, the ability to scan documents directly to Google Drive. Now, you may be asking, can’t I just upload a picture of a document to Google Drive? Yes you can, but if you use the scanning feature, it will crop the document and de-skew it so…
Anki is an open source flashcard app. There are apps for the major operating systems, macOS, Windows, Linux, along with iOS and Android. You’ll notice that ChromeOS was mentioned. While it is possible to sync decks with the OS version to be viewable on the web, this workflow has too many hoops to jump through…
Source: Pressto Pressto is a journalism web app for K-12 students. The goal is to teach writing and critical thinking skills. The app is currently being piloted in schools in the US and Canada. You can contact them to get more information and to express interest in joining the pilot.
Source: Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing In the past I’ve mentioned Firefox Send as a quick and easy way to share files with others. Unfortunately, Firefox Send went away back in September of 2020. Enter Wormhole. Wormhole lets you share a file or a folder of up to 10GB to anyone with the link….