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Duolingo is launching an iOS app to teach young kids how to read

Byryan April 4, 2020April 4, 2020

Source: ‎Duolingo ABC – Learn to Read on the App Store

Duolingo is known for it’s line of language learning apps, and now they are getting into the learning to read arena. Due to the numerous school closures, Duolingo is making the reading app available early.

The app has no ads or in-app purchases and is free to download. It also works offline, so kids with iPads will be able to use the app without an internet connection. Duolingo ABC has over 300 lessons for kids ages 3-6 on the alphabet, phonics, and sight words.

Although the app is iOS only at this point, the company plans to bring Duolingo ABC to Android in the future.

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Epic offers free ebooks and reading activities for teachers

Byryan January 7, 2020January 3, 2020

Source: Epic!: Read Amazing Children’s Books Online – Unlimited Access to the Best Books and Learning Videos For Kids 12 and Under I stumbled upon Epic! when I read about their free activity calendars. Although the service has a price for families, it is free to use in your classroom. Their quickstart guide is available…

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Little Big City is a pretty cool map and 3D experiment

Byryan August 14, 2018August 14, 2018

Little Big City is an experiment in web 3D graphics using the openstreet map database You can navigate to different locations using the map in the lower right. Unfortunately, there is no search, so you’re stuck either panning across the world or inputing the coordinates. Pretty nifty visualization if you are teaching maps or map reading.

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Using slide titles in Google Slides

Byryan September 9, 2020September 28, 2020

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…

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Ancient Earth globe is a Google Earth but for going back millions of years

Byryan June 30, 2018June 30, 2018

Ancient Earth globe is a Google Earth but for going back millions of years Source: Ancient Earth This is a very cool tool for studying the past geology of the Earth. One of the most interesting features is the ability to enter an address and have Ancient Earth locate where that address would be on…

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Automatic closed captioning coming to Google Slides

Byryan October 9, 2018October 9, 2018

Recently, an internal hackathon led us to work on a project that is deeply personal. Upon observing that presentations can be challenging for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to follow along, we both teamed up with the idea to add automated closed captions to G Suite’s presentation tool, Google Slides. This work…

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Store your passwords and notes securely with Lastpass

Byryan November 1, 2017November 8, 2017

Source: Lastpass One of the easiest ways for you to stay secure online is to use a password manager. Instead of using a password such as monkey182 on every site you use, a password manager lets you easily use a different password each site. Plus, each password can be very complex, such as r3E5u4*2AS2y. Lastpass is a great…

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