“To do two things at once is to do neither.” It’s a great smackdown of multitasking, isn’t it, often attributed to the Roman writer Publilius Syrus, although you know how these things are, he probably never said it. What I’m interested in, though, is — is it true? I mean, it’s obviously true for emailing at the dinner table or texting […]
Beautiful Editor is almost Audacity for Chromebooks. Source: Beautiful Audio Editor I hope you like green gradients, because Beautiful Audio Editor is a full feature audio editor that runs in the browser. Students can record directly in to the editor, copy/paste or duplicate audio. Final projects can be exported as mp3 and wav. There is a browser limitation […]
Another option to quiet Youtube – DF Tube, Distraction Free for YouTube. Source: DF Tube (Distraction Free for YouTube™) – Chrome Web Store There are several ways to cut out all of the extra cruft that YouTube puts up, and here is another. Once installed, DF Tube is a Chrome extension that gives you the ability to […]
See how productive you are in Chrome with the RescueTime extension. Source: RescueTime for Chrome and Chrome OS – Chrome Web Store RescueTime is a Chrome extension that will automatically track how long you use different websites. It categorizes the websites, so you can see how much time you spend in Google Docs vs time on […]
Preceden – A free for students timeline creator. Source: Preceden Timeline Maker: Create a Professional Timeline in Minutes There are probably as many different ways to create a timeline as there are to create a presentation. The free version is limited to 10 events on the timeline, but that is probably still enough for most […]
My Presentations at the Ohio Educational Technology Conference {Comic} Another Snow Day Easily type emojis in Chrome with this addon […]
Using a database of past tweets, they were able to effectively pick out the next words a user was likely to use. But they were able to do so more effectively if they simply had access to what a person’s contacts were saying on Twitter. Source: Social media can predict what you’ll say, even if you […]
Source: Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker – Chrome Web Store The tracking of you across the web is getting worse, but there are extensions that can help you with that. Ghostery is one such add-on for Google Chrome. Once installed, it goes to work. As I was testing Ghostery, I came across sites that had 20-30 […]
Revisiting Slides (not Google Slides, but slides.com). Source: Slides – Create and share presentations online Slides is an online application that can be used to create presentation. Options are always good, and if students are getting bored with Google Slides, maybe they could try Slides. Students can create a free account using their Google login. In the free […]