QR Code Generator is an online generator of QR codes. QR codes are a way to encode information as a picture that is easily read and understood by a computer. Much like the UPC codes on products at the grocery, except that QR codes are designed to be read by webcams and smartphone cameras, not lasers….
Google Classroom: Guardians Who Need a Google Account – Teacher Tech Great information on setting up parents to access their child’s information on Google Classroom. Twitter tips for new users Some basic information for those teachers just starting out with Twitter. Highlight rows in Google Sheets with conditional formatting Go beyond highlighting cells and highlight…
There doesn’t seem to be a shortage of graphical tools available online, and the latest that I’ve found is FotoJet. FotoJet has tons of built in templates to design almost everything you need. I found the site when I was looking for an easy way to create a photo collage. Once I started digging into the…
Calculator apps are funny, you don’t think about them until you need them, and then you want them to work fast and then get out of your way. Calculator for Google Chrome works well for that. Once installed, Calculator adds an app that you can launch from Google Chrome that does what it says it does, and…
I’ve been using PDF Escape to mark up PDFs when I’m on a Chromebook, and Kami is a fantastic entry into the mark up PDFs market. You can access Kami in any browser by visiting https://web.kamihq.com/, and it supports Google Logins, so students can start using it right away. The free plan should probably be enough for…
As Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble launched their respective eBook readers in 2007 and 2010, there were many who rushed to predict that the printed book would soon be meeting an untimely end. New data from the Pew Research Center now suggests that your standard paper, ink, and glue novel has considerable staying power with…
I’ve been on Twitter for awhile, and as I look for new people to follow, it’s the little things that cause me to not follow you. Egg for an avatar Nothing screams newbie like the default egg avatar that Twitter gives you when you sign up. This should be the first thing you change, even…
A url shortener is used to take a very long link and make it shorter. The shorten links are more easily shared then their longer counterparts, since the longer urls may get cut off in email or other ways of messaging. Google offers a url shortener at https://goo.gl, which works well when you want to…
Keith O’Neal has been putting together a list of educators, by state, which is a great way of getting started on Twitter. New Twitter users are victims of a catch-22 situation. To get the most out of Twitter you want to follow people of interest, but to find the people you want to follow, you…
I’ve used Polleverywhere a couple of times for presentations, and sli.do looks a little like Polleverywhere, but with a couple of nice additions. Sli.do bases the presentations on events, and each event under the free plan can have 3 polls, and up to 1,000 participants. But, moving past the polls, participants can ask questions and…