Source: Teacher Appreciation — Vooks
Via: TEACHERS: Get a FREE YEAR of animated storybooks ? with Vooks
Vooks are animated picture books that read to the student, along with added sound effects and music. What’s nice about Vooks is the TV aspect. The service is supported for use on TVs through a Roku, Chromecast, or Apple TV. With this, the whole family can watch and take part.
Now here’s something I just learned. After highlighting words on a web page, you can drag the highlighted words to the tab bar and Chrome will perform a Google search. The same thing happens when you drag the highlighted words to the url bar. This requires a little more effort than right-clicking on the highlighted…
Source: P2 — The New Working Several years ago I played with the original P2, a WordPress theme that worked kind of like Twitter. There was a box at the top of the page where you could post your content, and others could comment on it or scroll through the posts in reverse chronological order….
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…
Source: Qlearly – Modern Bookmarks and tabs manager Here’s another extension to help you manage your tabs and bookmarks in the browser. It borrows a little from the design of Trello, placing your tabs and bookmarks on boards, and each board can contain several columns. For the free service you can have a max of…
Google gives us several different addresses that we can enter to quickly create the different types of Google documents. However, this dumps them all in the root of your Google Drive. I’ve written directions on creating links to place the new files in a specific folder and shown how to quickly create documents. However, creating…
GlowScript is an easy-to-use, powerful environment for creating 3D animations and publishing them on the web. Here at glowscript.org, you can write and run GlowScript programs right in your browser, store them in the cloud for free, and easily share them with others Source: GlowScript IDE This one is for the most advanced students or teachers….