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Visit the U.S. National Parks in Google Earth
Each spring, the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation dedicate a week to celebrating the protected spaces in our communities. Today, we’re bringing the national parks to you in a Google Earth guided tour through 31 different parks around the country. Source: Explore U.S. National Parks in Google Earth What a cool set…
Create graphic novels, comics, and more with Storyboard That
Source: Storyboard That: The World’s Best Free Online Storyboard Creator Here’s a cool site that lets you or your students create different kinds of storyboards. For teachers, they have a paid plan that supports several different services for rostering. The free plan lets you create 2 storyboards a week. To get an idea what’s possible…
Search Google Drive from your Google Chrome address bar
Search Google Drive from your Google Chrome address bar. Google Chrome has the ability to add searches to the url with a keyword, so why not set it up to search your Google Drive. To get started, right click on the URL bar in Google Chrome and select Edit search engines… Click on Add on the right…
Search YouTube captions with the YouTube Captions Search extension
Source: YouTube Captions Search – Chrome Web Store Here’s a pretty cool extension to help your students locate information in YouTube videos. Once the extension is installed, you can search for specific words in videos that have closed captioning or subtitles. It is especially helpful when you are looking for a specific piece of information…
Use Pandora Stories to create a podcast with music
Source: Introducing Pandora Stories! — AMP Playbook Pandora Stories is a way to build podcasts that include songs from the Pandora library. Pandora handles the licensing, you supply the commentary. I’m waiting to be approved, so I can’t see what the interface looks like, but this could be something that musically centered students could get excited…
Continuously scroll your Google search results with the Infinite Scroll for Google Chrome add-on
Infinite Scroll for Google is an add-on for Google Chrome which takes the paging out of your search results. As you reach the bottom of the page, Infinite Scroll for Google will continually add the additional search results.