Create links to a Google Meet with a nickname #YouTube
Create Google Meet rooms that you can share with your students as links. Students then have one click access to each room.
Design your own book cover with coverjig.com
Source: Coverjig | Make a book cover you’ll love For students writing books, CoverJig can be used to create a book cover for their work. The site works without signing in, although if you want to save progress, you’ll need to create an account. To export your picture for free, you’ll screenshot the book cover….
Resources for learning WordPress
Source: News – Introducing Learn WordPress – WordPress.org WordPress is the most used software on the internet for creating websites. You can start on WordPress.com, or run the software yourself. If you want to get started with WordPress, here’s a great way to start. For technology directors, if you are using WordPress in your district,…
Flash is dead, a comic, and new works in the public domain – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2020/12/ding-dong-flash-is-dead/ https://eduk8.me/2020/12/goodbye-2020-comic/ https://eduk8.me/2020/12/public-domain-day-is-coming/
Escape rooms in Google Docs (interactive fiction?)
For anyone who’s been lucky enough to spend the majority of the pandemic working from home, the idea of escaping the room (or couch) that’s become a makeshift office is probably a relatable one. Enter this series of “escape rooms” built in Google Docs, that let you do just that, inside web software you’ve probably become…
Ding Dong – Flash is Dead!
Today is the day that Adobe end-of-lifes one of the greatest and most frustrating of internet technologies, Flash. Flash was great in the late 90s, allowing web developers to create interactive, good looking websites. YouTube took Flash to a new level by allowing video to be played easily. The downsides for Flash are many. The…
Public Domain Day is coming!
On January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 will enter the US public domain,1 where they will be free for all to use and build upon. These works include books such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, and Franz Kafka’s The Trial (in the original German), silent films featuring Harold Lloyd…