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Students can create multimedia ebooks with these 5 tools

Byryan January 10, 2018January 17, 2018

Writing a multimedia ebook or magazine can be a good way for students to illustrate and or further explain portions of fiction and non-fiction stories that they develop. Multimedia publishing tools that include a collaboration component can further help students as they work together with each other or with you to improve their work.

Source: Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Ways for Students to Create Multimedia eBooks

Book Creator is my favorite. If you are on a Mac, be sure to check out iBooks Author and Apple Pages. iBook is specifically designed to create ebooks. Although designed for word processing, Apple Pages has several page layout and graphics tools, along with export for epub that makes it a worth contender for creating ebooks. Both Apple products create epub files that are readable on all platforms.

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Generate your own spaceship

Byryan November 21, 2020November 21, 2020

Source: Ship – shapeWright.com Here’s a fun little ship generator that builds a spaceship based on the words you feed it. I could see this being used to create graphics for stories. In science, students could figure out what a space ship would have and label those parts on their own ship.

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Bring the coffee shop ambiance to your classroom with Coffitivity

Byryan April 27, 2019April 26, 2019

I haven’t quite decided whether Coffitivity is brilliant or not. If you or your students need a little background noise but don’t want music, then Coffitivity is for you. The player has several different locations of background sounds that you can listen to, so you or your students can bring in the sounds of working…

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Search your local library for books while browsing Amazon and other sites with this browser extension

Byryan January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

As you browse books and e-books, the Library Extension can check your library’s online catalog and display the availability of that item on the same page. Source: Library Extension – See book availability from your local library | Library Extension This is, without a doubt, one of the coolest extensions I’ve covered. After installing the extension,…

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A new way to practice typing and read classic literature

Byryan October 10, 2020October 10, 2020

Source: Practice typing by retyping ENTIRE classic novels | TypeLit.io TypeLit.io is a website that let’s you retype an entire novel, and also keeps track of your words per minute and what chapter you are on. I don’t know how useful reading a novel this way would be, but it does allow you to practice…

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Autoslides – Automatically refresh Google Slides without reloading

Byryan April 9, 2020April 9, 2020

Google presentations have a publishing function that makes it easy to spread. In this way they can easily be linked or embedded in web media. However, if the presentation slides are modified, it is necessary to reload the page that contains their published versions in the browser so that these changes are manifested. AutoSlides is capable of generating…

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Backpack for Google Drive – student portfolios using Google

Byryan August 21, 2019August 20, 2019

Source: Backpack for Google Drive – a student-centered, Google-based approach to student portfolios. This could be a nice way to use Google’s products in the creation of student portfolios. The biggest issue I see is that they are breaking my number one rule when dealing with vendors, no pricing information is available. If I have…

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