Much like Skitch before it, Annotable gives you some pretty cool markup tools for pictures. My favorite is the magnifying loupe, allowing you to shift focus to a particular part of an image and magnify it. Annotable is free with in-app purchases for more tools.
It was great while it lasted, but social networking is going away. The idea was that you could sign up for a social network like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Flickr or Reddit and connect with old friends and acquaintances, make new ones or even interact with strangers about your life. Except…
There are a few search operators that you can use in the Gmail search bar to help narrow down and find that message. Here are a few of my favorites: from: and to: To find all the emails from a particular person, use from:[email protected], or use to:[email protected] to find all of the email messages sent…
Top 3 posts of the week Sharing: 4 Reasons That Technology Might Not Be Helping Them Learn Seems to be a recurring theme, don’t do technology for technology’s sake. ⓔ Highlight the minimum and maximum cell in a Google Sheet column #gafetip #itip15 Although it’s a little tricky to set up, I use this all…
I don’t know what I was doing, but this past week I stumbled upon the WordPress.com App for the desktop. Currently available for OS X and Windows, the WordPress.com App takes some of the administrative features from the WordPress dashboard and delivers those features to you in an up to date, and I believe, more…
The origins of SSS began in April of 2014 as I began to embark on making a “game a week.” Rami Ismail of Vlambeer had recently written about the topic so it was fresh in my mind. I too am a proponent of it creating a breadth of work because only through practice can you become…
The transformation spans hardware (thinner, lighter, smaller, cheaper, longer battery life, instant on/off, touch, sensors, connectivity, etc.), operating systems (more: secure, reliable, maintainable, robust, etc.), and app software (refactored, renewed, reimagined, etc.). It is the combination of these attributes, however, causing a change as fundamental as the leap from mainframe to workstation, from character-based to…
I fired up Google Slides yesterday like I do every day and was greeted with a new feature, Presenter View: I have already used Presenter View, but the Accept audience questions option had me intrigued. Starting Presenter View Presenter View is still not as polished as it is in Keynote or Powerpoint, but it does get the job done….
Audiobooks are a valid listening component, providing rich exposure to sophisticated spoken words in school and at home. We’ve seen evidence of this in the work we do at Tales2go, but wanted to be more rigorous in our approach and have data to support our argument. We contracted with WestEd, a leading educational research nonprofit,…
Amid a flurry of interest in the latest panacea for student disengagement, a recent CNN report asked, Is personalized learning the future of school? The report, based upon a $133 million school startup known as AltSchool, is a response to a legitimate concern identified by former Google executive, Max Ventilla. The ambition to make the…