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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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{Google Docs} Add math equations written with Latex easily to Google Docs

Byryan February 16, 2018February 16, 2018

This add-on lets you automatically convert every mathematical equation in your document into beautiful latex images! This add-on lets you automatically convert every LaTeX equation in your document into beautiful images! Simply enclose your math equations within $$ … $$ and click the button in the sidebar, and all of your equations will be rendered…

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Create your own face emoji with Emojibuilder

Byryan December 27, 2018December 27, 2018

Create your own face emoji with Emojibuilder. Emoji Builder lets you build different face emojis. The site could be used by students to create an avatar for themselves or to create characters for a story or animation. Once created, the emojis download as a .png file. To create an emoji, you can select the various parts…

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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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Web Maker is a great playground for web developers

Byryan August 10, 2017August 16, 2017

Web Maker is a great playground for web developers. If you teach web design, then you’ll want to check out Web Maker. It’s a tool that you or students can use to learn html, css, and javascript, by showing the results of changes in real time. Web Maker is an offline app for Google Chrome. Launching the…

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An amazing list of tools to use in your classroom, ClassTools

Byryan April 27, 2018April 27, 2018

I’m surprised I haven’t mentioned ClassTools.net before! ClassTools.net is a collection of tools to use in the classroom without any signup or passwords required. The tools can be used by all ages to create digital artifacts or tools to be used by the teacher. Check them out!

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Managing checklists in Google Keep or using Taskpaper with Drafts for iOS

Byryan January 17, 2016January 22, 2016

In my never ending quest to maximize the amount of work that needs to get done I’m constantly evaluating ways of managing my task lists. I’m currently settling into two systems, depending on the tasks that need to be completed. Google Keep Google Keep is Google’s limited answer to Evernote. While it doesn’t have near…

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