Source: Fact Check Tools
Google has a cool Fact Check Explorer, which allows you to enter a search term and it will show how that term is portrayed online and what facts are true. This would be a great starting point when investigating sources of information.
While Google Slides can be viewed as limited in reference to animations, it seems to support one cool feature, animated gifs. Animated gifs are images that usually loop over a few frames, such as this volcano: It’s a pretty spiffy way to spruce up a presentation! To find animated gifs, you can go to Google…
Previously I wrote about creating bookmarks that can easily create Google documents, but since that was almost two years ago, it is time to revisit the solution. Google has special URLs (web addresses) that will create a Google document when you click on them. For the five main types of documents, the links are: Google…
The components in the model are by no means exhaustive – I acknowledge there are many more literacies, some of which are emergent due to new technologies and services. What I have attempted here is to represent what I consider to be the most important, or most regularly observed literacies and try to place them…
Not only can you easily create graphic organizers in Google Slides, but you can also lock items and share the completed organizer with your students through Google Classroom or Google Drive sharing. Other Google Slides help: How to lock objects in Google Slides (two ways, one doesn’t involve downloading graphics!) – 6 tips to make…
I love Chrome extensions, but sometimes they can become overwhelming or they may cause issues. Here’s a video on how I manage my Chrome extensions with Extensity!
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…