Players seek risks, challenges, rewards, and recognition when they play a game. Application of various game mechanics to learning experiences can help fulfill these ‘human motivations’. When you design a learning game, you need to choose mechanics that seem appealing for your students, whilst also ensuring that they gel well with the context and the…
When you need to resize and image use the Social Image Resizer Tool. Source: Social Image Resizer Tool So, you took a picture with your smartphone and would like to use it as your Twitter avatar, or post it to the web. The problem is that Twitter will yell at you for uploading such a…
The Nautilus is a research vehicle operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust, a nonprofit founded by Robert Ballard, one of the people who helped us find the Titanic. It conducts scientific research and offers live video and audio streams to those of us who are unable to come along. This year, it’ll journey along the…
Check out taking notes in Vivaldi for a quick way to collect information. The Vivaldi browser has a note taking feature built in to the browser. You can access it from the toolbar on the right, but default it’s the 3rd icon down. I wasn’t too interested in the Notes feature before they added syncing,…
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Hours after a mob of villagers beat five strangers to death over a rumor on WhatsApp, nobody wanted to clean up the blood: There was just too much of it. … Five days after the event, the police had rounded up most of the suspects. Each admitted to attacking the five men — all nomads…
Source: Google Docs on Twitter: “Introducing a ✨ .new ✨ time-saving trick for users. Type any of these .new domains to instantly create Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites or Forms ↓… https://t.co/BaW2PAHNg4” Google, who owns the .new top level domain, has set it up for you to quickly create several types of Google Documents. In the url…
Source: Random Emoji Generator Everyone loves emojis, so how about creating a story through random emojis? Emoji Prompts will randomly show one emoji. Clicking And then… will show another random emoji, allowing the user to randomly create a story.
Source: AddText — Captions for your photos, quick and easy AddText is a great tool to quickly add text to any image, and it doesn’t require an account!