The funniest TED Talks
Source: The funniest TED Talks | TED Talks What can I say, it’s all in the title. Ok, maybe I will add a comment. These talks could be an incentive to get students to watch Ted Talks in a new light, one where the students realize that they could actually enjoy a Ted Talk.
Find resources and cheat sheets with Cheatography
Source: Build Cheat Sheets and Share Your Favourites! – Cheatography.com: Cheat Sheets For Every Occasion No, not that kind of cheating. Cheat sheets for keyboard shortcuts, tips, and more for technology topics. At first glance the cheat sheets look pretty high tech, but you can search for various apps, such as google or microsoft.
Tune is a Chrome extension that uses AI to remove toxic YouTube comments
Source: Tune (experimental) – Chrome Web Store Depending on how your students use YouTube and how they view YouTube videos, this Chrome extension could be pretty useful. The extension could also be used by students studying toxic online culture, comparing and contrasting what online discussions look like with and without toxic comments.
Book Creator is hosting several free webinars this summer!
Book Creator is an app and website created to help you and your students create books. There is a free level that you can use, and when you’re ready to update, you’ll see that their pricing is pretty reasonable. The creation of books can take place with the Chrome browser or on iPads. To help…
Replacing Google Keep with the Doc Builder add-on for Google Docs to insert snippets
Source: Doc Builder – Google Docs add-on Teachers have to create a lot of documents, such as lesson plans and lesson activities. To create a new lesson plan, the workflow usually consists of copying an older lesson plan and editing that. This works ok, but it is cumbersome when you want to take various bits…
A child’s educational success is dependent on their background
Children of similar cognitive ability have very different chances of educational success; it still depends on their parents’ economic, socio-cultural and educational resources. This contradicts a commonly held view that these days that our education system has developed enough to give everyone a fighting chance. Source: Educational success among children of similar cognitive ability depends…
Keep safe and unshorten URLs with unshorten.link
Unshorten.link is a website and Chrome extension that provides you protection against malicious shortened links by allowing you to unshorten urls. What is link shortening Link shortening is a way to take a very long URL and make it shorter so it’s easier to share. You’ve probably seen a link that starts with bit.ly or…