Tech Tools That Have Transformed Learning With Dyslexia Fifth-grade teacher Kyle Redford remembers with emotion the day she unwittingly put an iPad in the hands of one of her 10-year-old dyslexic students, a day she called “a complete game changer.” I loved this paragraph from the article: But in order for teachers to really embrace…
10 Projects and Templates to Up Your Google Slides Game One of Google Drive’s most versatile and powerful tools, Slides, has so much potential for the classroom. Read on for templates, hacks, and project ideas to start using today! I use a paper size of 8.5″ x 11″ in Google Drawings, but didn’t realize I…
10 engaging Google Drawings activities for classes | Ditch That Textbook Google Drawings is like a digital poster board. Or sheet of paper. Or a blank slate waiting for your great ideas. Sadly, many educators don’t know about it or know what it does. Maybe part of the reason: when you click “new” in your…
Using Sound of Text site for language learning Sound of Text allows you to enter up to 100 characters of text in one of 44 languages. Once you click Submit, the site generates audio of the word or phrase. I have used Google Translate on my phone in the past to communicate with an ELL…
Here Is An Excellent Google Drive Tool for Creating Rubrics OrangeSlice:Teacher Rubric is an interesting Google Docs add-on to use for creating rubric selections and converting the Analysis or Holistic rubric into a percentage or points grade. Any tool that can provide students with feedback quickly is a good tool to use.
The last couple of weeks I’ve been playing around with Periscope. Periscope is a live broadcast service that requires no set up (well, except for a Twitter account). After clicking on the broadcast button in the bottom toolbar, Periscope will ask What are you seeing now?. Enter a topic, then click the red Start Broadcast button and…
Trello is a free project management service that could work very well in the classroom. The organization of Trello consists of the following parts, starting with actionable items: Cards A card is an item to be completed. Checklists, documents, pictures, etc. can be attached to a card to help you complete the item. Each card…
CloudConvert promises to convert anything to anything. While this is a little misleading (for example, you can’t convert a .zip file to an .mp4), it does support 206 different file formats. How it works is that you select a file, say you have a .mobi ebook that you would like to convert to .epub to…
Available for Chrome and Firefox, Nimbus Screenshot (Nimbus Screen Capture under Firefox) is another option for capturing screen shots from your browser. There are several options on what can be captured: It also allows you to edit the screenshot much like Skitch: Once you are finished editing the screen shot, you can download the image…
I’ve mentioned in the past about using Pushbullet to send links, text and other information to your students. Yesterday, Google announced the Google Tone. This adds a new icon in the toolbar that when pressed, emits a series of tones that other browsers with the extension installed will hear. I’ve tried it out at home, and…