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Sketch Nation allows you to create and play online games

Byryan January 4, 2018January 10, 2018

This is a fun little site that allows you or students to create a few types of games. Sketch Nation offers three templates for games: action, adventure, and puzzle. The site also offers three modes of game creation, simple, advanced, or expert to allow students of different skill levels the ability to create games.

Sketch Nation doesn’t require any accounts to use, and games that students create are automatically saved locally on their machine. This could be an issue when computers are shared among students, so that’s something to keep in mind.

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Check out free ebooks from Story Share

Byryan December 2, 2017December 7, 2017

We help generate and then distribute new stories aimed at older students who read below grade level, specifically ensuring that the content is interesting at their age, and readable at their level. To do so, we are building the Story Shares Hub to bring together authors, readers, and educators. For authors, the Hub provides a…

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Deliver lessons with Unio

Byryan August 3, 2017August 9, 2017

Unio is a free platform for creating lessons and delivering them directly to your students’ laptop screens. It’s designed to let you project a lesson and quizzes onto your students’ screens and have them follow along with you. You can include quiz questions at various points throughout your lessons. Source: Free Technology for Teachers: How to Use…

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Do you have an Android phone running Oreo? Use Google Go to read webpages to you

Byryan November 3, 2018November 2, 2018

Today, we’re launching a new feature which will let everyone using Google Go’s browser listen to webpages out loud. Powered by natural language processing and speech synthesis AI, this technology can read aloud billions of webpages in 28 languages smoothly, and in a natural sounding voice, even on 2G connections. It also uses minimal cellular…

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Create custom text emojis with Textmoji

Byryan November 13, 2021November 10, 2021

Source: Textmoji · Make custom text emoji This app might not make sense if you don’t use the messaging app Slack. Slack allows you to create custom emojis that you can trigger in your conversations. I found the app and realized that it could be used to create all sorts of little graphics for you…

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Try to locate yourself in the world with GeoGuessr

Byryan June 1, 2019June 1, 2019

GeoGuessr is an online geography game that places you somewhere in the world and you then have to figure out where you are. Here’s where it put me on my first try:

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Adobe Scan lets you scan documents with your smartphone or iPad

Byryan June 17, 2020June 17, 2020

Source: ‎Adobe Scan Digital PDF Scanner (iPhone), Adobe Scan: PDF Scanner with OCR, PDF Creator (Android) I’ve written about scanning documents with your smartphone, and Adobe Scan is another option. What follows is what I saw using the app on an iPhone. The experience may be different under Android. After starting the app, you are…

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