Source: xprim.valuraise.com/
I came across Xprim in my internet travels, and it took a little bit to figure out what exactly the site does. It offers polling of participants in a lecture or presentation setting, along with the ability to collect questions.
The site is currently free, and could be used in place of Poll Everywhere or a Google Form, depending on your needs.
Source: Fake Tweet Generator – Generate convincing fake tweet images The Fake Tweet Generator lets you create graphics of Tweets. They look really, really, good, as you can see above. Fake tweets can be used in student projects to emphasis information from famous people or places. I would not recommend using it to create tweets…
Source: Sketch Nation This is a fun little site that allows you or students to create a few types of games. Sketch Nation offers three templates for games: action, adventure, and puzzle. The site also offers three modes of game creation, simple, advanced, or expert to allow students of different skill levels the ability to create games. Sketch…
Source: Lastpass One of the easiest ways for you to stay secure online is to use a password manager. Instead of using a password such as monkey182 on every site you use, a password manager lets you easily use a different password each site. Plus, each password can be very complex, such as r3E5u4*2AS2y. Lastpass is a great…
Source: FindSounds – Browse for sounds Who doesn’t need sound effects? Whether it is for that multimedia project or that Scratch game, everyone needs a sound effect at some time or another. FindSounds is a search engine for free sounds. Unfortunately, even though you can play and download the sounds for free, who own the…
Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week I’ve been using a Chromebook for the past several weeks as my main laptop and it’s gone very well. Since I can run Linux apps…
Source: Explain and Send Screenshots – Chrome Web Store I’ve been a big fan of Nimbus Screenshot for awhile, but I have a feeling that Explain and Send Screenshots is going to be my go to screenshot tool now. The tools are pretty standard, but my favorite is the numbering text tool. With it you…