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Free icons to use for badges from OpenClipart
Thanks to Brian Pool I’ve been looking at using Moodle and adding some gamification elements to my classroom. One aspect of gamification is creating badges for students to earn. In the video Gamify your Moodle courses in under 20 minutes Federic Nevers shows how he makes his badges for Moodle by using OpenClipart. When you visit OpenClipart, there are samples…
How to link to a Google Doc and view as a pdf in the browser
Google Docs makes it really easy to create a link to a pdf version of a Google Doc. Go to Sharing on the Google Doc, either click on Public on the web or Anyone with the link, depending on your comfort level of others finding your document. You then get a link to the Google…
Google’s url shortener, goo.gl has an extension and can also create QR codes
A url shortener is used to take a very long link and make it shorter. The shorten links are more easily shared then their longer counterparts, since the longer urls may get cut off in email or other ways of messaging. Google offers a url shortener at https://goo.gl, which works well when you want to…