Create some cool message windows with Carbon
Source: Carbon | Create and share beautiful images of your source code Carbon is a website for programmers to create screenshots of codes, but the flexibility and options of the site offers something to students and teachers. Instead of just creating a text box in a presentation, use Carbon and create a visually appealing text…
How to create free logos with Ucraft
Source: Free Logo Maker | Create Your Logo Online with Ucraft The free logo maker is pretty cool, even with the limited tools. It’s drag and drop to place different icons, shapes, and text in your logo. To download or save, you’ll need to create an account though. Helpfully, Ucraft supports Google logins. If you…
How to find free illustrations for your multimedia projects
Source: 404 Illustrations Since my artistic skills are lacking, I love it when I stumble upon free graphics that I can use. Although 404 Illustrations‘ goal is to provide graphics for 404 pages (those pages that come up when you try access a page that doesn’t exist) a lot of the graphics are generic enough that…
A meme, a comic, and converting files – Top 3 of the Week
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Ambiguity leads to chaos
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. When I was young, I thought checklists and procedures were the providence of the old. Now, after a few years in the classroom and in education, I’ve found that keeping everything that needs…
Squibler is a writing prompt generator with a dangerous mode
Source: Squibler: Where writers get serious Squibler is not available for free past a 14 day trial mode, but it does have some free features that you and your students can use without an account. The Plot Generator helps you start a story with an idea. Students could copy the idea into their own document…
More free art for reuse
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has put over 700,000 digitised copies of its huge art collection online, and is making them available to reuse as public domain Source: Over 700,000 paintings from the Rijksmuseum online copyright free You need to create an account to download the high resolution jpgs, but without an account you can still right-click – save image…