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 for it to be useful.
This could be a good for students as an alternative to Quizlet, if your students aren’t using Chromebooks.
The Oregon Trail is perhaps the most beloved educational game ever made — and soon it’ll be getting a new life in schools thanks to Minecraft. A blocky rendition of The Oregon Trail is now available for Minecraft: Education Edition, a version of the game tailored specifically for classrooms. The new Oregon Trail was created by educational publishing company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and…
Source: Quizster – Streamlined grading. Formative assessment. Quizster is an interesting addition to the formative assessment game. Students can complete work on paper or in whatever app they want. They then submit their work to be graded to the teacher. The teach can mark up the document, give it a grade, and hand it back to…
Beautiful Editor is almost Audacity for Chromebooks. Source: Beautiful Audio Editor I hope you like green gradients, because Beautiful Audio Editor is a full feature audio editor that runs in the browser. Students can record directly in to the editor, copy/paste or duplicate audio. Final projects can be exported as mp3 and wav. There is a browser limitation…
For this year’s installment of “Free Classroom Apps to Try This Fall” I decided to round up a collection of apps that might be somewhat lesser known, but still offer lots of classroom potential. Additionally, I tried to find apps that could be used across grade levels and/or subject areas. Source: 8 Free Apps to…
Along with a great tip on using Slides titles comes this nugget: I have coded an Add-on to automatically add a Google Slides Table of Contents to your Google Slides. You need to start with my template and then build the Slides. The table of contents creates a hyperlink to each of the slides in…
Source: GoFullPage – Full Page Screen Capture – Chrome Web Store There are times when it would be nice to share a picture of a web page with your students, but the page is too long to capture at once. That’s where GoFullPage for Chrome1 comes in. After you install the extension, click on the…