Use Gif Lingua to support reading in your classroom with gifs! Source: Gif Lingua Gif Lingua offers illustrated books online, with a twist. The illustrations are usually animated gifs and the books can be accompanied by a computerized voice reading the book to you. Grade levels for the books are approximate 1-3, although the subject matter […]
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 […]
Quickly open a word definition with the Google Dictionary Chrome Extension. Google Dictionary (by Google) – Chrome Web Store Once installed, a pop up will now show when words are selected on a web page. Along with the definition is a speaker icon which will read the word out loud for the student. This would […]
Drag words to the address bar or new tab button to perform a Google search A story on the difficulties university students face when reading more than 200 words at a time {Comic} 10 More Weeks […]
We posit that a single exposure to rudeness in the morning can contaminate employees’ perceptions of subsequent social interactions leading them to perceive greater workplace rudeness throughout their workday. We expect that these contaminated perceptions will have important ramifications for employees’ work behaviors. Source: PsycNET Record Display – PsycNET Think about that student that comes to […]
Serious people sometimes make silly predictions. Source: The Future of Education Will Never Arrive History is littered with failed experiments, but these failures are what have brought us the world we have today. Cynicism aside, computers will get better at understanding people, and when that happens, who knows what will happen. To get an […]
Use the Send from Gmail Google Chrome Extension to share the current page through email. Source: Send from Gmail (by Google) – Chrome Web Store Sending a link to the current page would seem to be a very useful feature, but it’s not built in to Google Chrome. That’s where the Send from Gmail extension comes in. Once […]
I’d suggest that happiness for students might arise from challenge, from hard work fairly rewarded, or from the acquisition of new skills. But there is of course a quicker route: you keep students happy by not failing them. And then – surprise! – when they graduate they are not literate, or numerate, or knowledgeable enough […]
Now here’s something I just learned. After highlighting words on a web page, you can drag the highlighted words to the tab bar and Chrome will perform a Google search. The same thing happens when you drag the highlighted words to the url bar. This requires a little more effort than right-clicking on the highlighted […]