Bring the coffee shop ambiance to your classroom with Coffitivity
I haven’t quite decided whether Coffitivity is brilliant or not. If you or your students need a little background noise but don’t want music, then Coffitivity is for you. The player has several different locations of background sounds that you can listen to, so you or your students can bring in the sounds of working…
Share Youtube videos with notes using Vidnotes
Vidnote is a simple Youtube video player that allows you to add time stamped notes to a video. It doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles of other services, but if you are looking for something simple and easy to use, check it out. To get started, click the Delete Notes link to remove…
Power through that first draft with Write
I’ve mentioned the world’s Most Dangerous Writing App, and to join it, I bring you Write. You select a time limit and start writing. Don’t stop, or you will lose everything you’ve written. When done, it will save your document to your local machine. Students will want to copy/paste their document into their word processor…
Whatever you do, don’t call these typing games educational
“Keyboarding was a new skill and computers were driving home the need for everybody [to learn to type],” Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing developer Mike Duffy tells The Verge. “And then suddenly, everybody had to do it and do it reasonably well. People had an interest on their own, but it was also parents thinking of…
Create animated gifs from your Google Slides presentations with Tall Tweets
Source: Tall Tweets – Convert Google Slides to GIF and Tweet! Tall Tweets is a free online tool that you and your students can use to create animated gifs. Although the site mentions creating gifs and tweeting them, you don’t have to use Twitter or even have an account with Twitter. You do need a…
Kids are finding out that their digital footprint is being created by their parents
For several months, Cara has been working up the courage to approach her mom about what she saw on Instagram. Not long ago, the 11-year-old—who, like all the other kids in this story, is referred to by a pseudonym—discovered that her mom had been posting photos of her, without prior approval, for much of her…
Bullets.tech is a great website for tech news summaries
Trying to keep up with science and technology news can become overwhelming. Bullets.tech is a website that breaks down science and news articles to five bullet points. This would be great for helping students find things they are interested in or keeping up with science news.