Source: Anchor – The easiest way to make a podcast
I’ve mentioned Anchor before, but their latest update demanded another post. It is still free to use, and now you can use a web interface or a mobile app to record your audio. Each snippet of audio can be edited together to form a podcast, which can then be published to Apple’s, Google’s, Spotify’s, Overcast’s, and Pocketcasts’ podcasting sites.
Movenote is a website, Chrome web app, Android, and iOS app that allows you to create narrated presentations. The app supports Google authentication, so students don’t have to create accounts, and there is also an education version that removes the ads. It’s the easiest app I’ve found for allowing students (or teachers!) to record narrated slide…
GoArt is really cool, it takes a photo and applies different art styles to the photo and creates art. I gave it the following image: After applying the impressionism effect, I got this: This site would be very useful for art classes when you’re studying different eras and styles, or for when you want to…
Coding in the classroom has never been easier now that the virtual console PICO-8 is available on the web. With PICO-8, students can program games in the lua programming language. The environment includes a graphics and sound editor, which makes it easy for students to create their own games. Additionally, PICO-8 is available on Chromebooks,…
Source: Sown To Grow Do you want a more student oriented grade book? One where the students report their progress for various activities allowing them to reflect on what they’ve learned? Then check out Sown to Grow. To use Sown to Grow, teachers add any activity that students will be completing in the classroom. Students…
Google search results can be a little overwhelming for students. A search for volcano leaves you with 100,000,000 results. Google Search Filter is an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to highlight results from certain sites and hide results from other sites. Once installed, head over to Google.com to configure the extension. It will first ask for…
Google for Education’s mission is to help improve learning outcomes for students around the world. We do this by giving teachers tools that make their day to day more efficient and collaboration with students more effective, so students can get the feedback and attention they need to grow. Teachers have told us they want to…