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Get your beats and bassline going with the online Roland 808 & 303

Byryan October 17, 2020October 14, 2020

The 808 is a legendary drum machine that was a commercial failure yet it ended up being the most popular drum machine every produced. It is used on more songs than any other machine.

The 808303 studio allows you to work on your wicked beats along with a bassline. Be sure to watch the impromptu video to get a feel for how to create. Your masterpiece can be downloaded as a video file or shared directly to Twitter and/or Facebook.

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Brick Block is a neat “build your own city block” free web tool

Byryan May 24, 2017May 31, 2017

Brick Block is a design experiment where you are given a city block, and you can build your own building. Left click builds, right click destroys. Clicking and dragging on the base allows you to rotate your creation. It’s fun to play with in a Minecraft sort of way, although it is very limiting compared to…

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Axiom for Chrome organizes and annotates Word docs, PDFs, webpages, and more.

Byryan June 16, 2016June 16, 2016

Axiom is a Chrome application that can organize your digital media plus annotate and collaborate with them. The service can be used to collect documents, including multimedia, for various uses, such as collecting homework or brainstorming ideas by marking up the documents or multimedia. There is a free level which allows you to store 10…

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Pixel art editor and more at Lospec

Byryan October 10, 2019October 10, 2019

Source: Lospec If you have students that are working on programming their own game, or maybe they just want to create some clip art for a presentation, Lospec provides an online editor that doesn’t require a log in. There are also tutorials and other materials to help you or your students travel down the pixel…

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Draftback – Track Google Docs version history

Byryan October 16, 2019October 16, 2019

Draftback – Chrome Web Store I learned about this Google Docs addon from Reddit, but I haven’t had much luck in getting it to work correctly. I’m sharing it so maybe you’ll have better luck and can share with me what you did. Draftback gives you a visual playback of a document’s version history. It…

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Create talking images with Blabberize

Byryan May 1, 2018May 1, 2018

Create talking images with Blabberize.com. Here’s a fun little site that came across my browsing this past week. Blabberize.com allows you to upload a photo, and then animate the mouth with audio you record or have recorded. Unfortunately, you have to create an account to save your work, which may be a problem for younger students. Once…

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Gifntext can easily add text to an animated gif

Byryan August 31, 2018August 31, 2018

Gifntext can easily add text to an animated gif. After you upload an animated gif or load an animated gif by URL, Gifntext gets started with showing you the tools you can use and help on how to do certain tasks. Gifntext doesn’t look like much, but it is a pretty powerful tool for adding to animated gifs. And…

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