Babl Books brings you children’s picture books in all languages. Books in Spanish, French, Vietnamese, Tagalog, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and much more! Source: Babl Books This would be a nice resource for multiple language classrooms. The books I looked at were priced at $9.99 for paperback and $14.99 for hardback. The website allows you…
Thanks to Cloudflare‘s free SSL service, the eduk8.me website is now secured over SSL. Cloudflare is a cloud proxy system for websites, allowing the website to load faster for users while also protecting the website for denial of service or other attacks. There are two other nice features for websites when used with Cloudflare, IPv6 support…
Flippity.net is an awesome website that integrates with Google Sheets. There are 8 tools that you can use, Flashcards, Quiz Show, Spelling Words, MadLibs, Random Name Picker, Badge Tracker, Progress Indicator and Certificate Quiz. Each tool has a link to a demo page so you can see it in action, and a link to the…
You’ve probably heard of the student-led “Genius Bar”, which is generally a team of student leaders that provide technical support for the technology devices and programs in their schools. What a great way to utilize and develop student knowledge and skills, right? I couldn’t agree more. Busch’s student tech teams have four sub-committees: the “Newcast…
Google recently added Google Play support to two more Chromebooks in Chrome OS’s developer channel. That means you can now run Android apps on three separate Chromebooks. The two new Chromebooks include the Acer Chromebook R 11 C738T, and Google’s own Chromebook Pixel, although in the 2015 version only. Source: Early Android app support rolls out to…
Kids certainly need to understand the concepts of programming, the logic behind the computing devices, visible and not, they use everyday. That needs to be a fundamental part of the basic course of study, replacing the rote processing and endless repetition in the K12 curriculum we call “math”. The computer science classes need to be…
Most people these days still see computer coding or programming as a highly technical or even nerdy activity that is only attractive to a minority of the population. In reality, coding is getting to be a newer type of literacy. It is a skill that is useful in everyday life, especially in today’s highly digital…
Boxy SVG lets you edit vector graphics in Chrome without an internet connection. There are two different ways of how the computer renders graphics. One is bitmap or raster images, which include .jpg, .png, and .gif. Raster images take a graphic and view it as a combination of pixels to form the image. This allows…
Somewhere between education and entertainment lies a sweet spot. MinecraftEdu — rereleased as Minecraft: Education Edition — hit square on the mark by bringing game-based learning to subjects like anatomy and art history. Now, Nintendo’s Pokémon GO mobile game appears poised to find its target too. The augmented reality app, released just one week ago,…
It was a typical Tuesday in my seventh-grade social studies class. Only, it wasn’t. I couldn’t coax students to stop writing. I made several announcements to save and export work to Google Drive and to put away computers. Students continued to pore through the books and online sources to learn more details about major battles…