Source: FindSounds – Browse for sounds Who doesn’t need sound effects? Whether it is for that multimedia project or that Scratch game, everyone needs a sound effect at some time or another. FindSounds is a search engine for free sounds. Unfortunately, even though you can play and download the sounds for free, who own the…
Source: DrawKit – Beautiful free illustrations I think I find a new free illustration site about once a month, and here’s another one. DrawKit offers a bunch of illustrations for free, just scroll to the bottom of the page. The illustrations offered by DrawKit are in .png and .svg format. PNGs are graphic images you…
Source: GIPHY Arcade The games are pretty simplistic, and you have to watch out for inappropriate gifs, but the coding is pretty fun and easy!
The iOS Microsoft Whiteboard app updated to Version 19.11007.0 earlier today. This latest app update for Microsoft’s cloud-based sketching app includes some subtle UI changes for improved accessibility and unlocks the new template feature which is in public preview and was also made available on the Windows app several days ago. Source: Microsoft Whiteboard app updates on…
Source: Draw! Sometimes you just need a quick and easy easy way to jot down notes and drawings during a meeting. Draw! is a no-frills online whiteboard. It uses the open source library called Literally Canvas. For what it does, it works well. Whiteboards can be saved or exported, no logins are required.
Notion, the sleek and sophisticated note-taking app, is going free for the education market. The company said today that teachers and students who sign up with an academic email address will get a free upgrade to the premium version of the software, which entitles them to unlimited uploads, storage, and version history features. The service has…
But! A recent NYPL project has paid for the already-digitized registration records to be marked up as XML. (I was not involved, BTW, apart from saying “yes, this would work” four years ago.) Now for anything that’s unambiguously a “book”, we have a parseable record of its pre-1964 interactions with the Copyright Office: the initial registration and any potential renewal….
Source: Download free icons, music, stock photos, vectors I beginning to think I should combine all of these free image sites posts in to one page to make them easier to find! icons8 offers more than just pictures. They have icon packs and music! A very cool site if you or your students are looking…
Source: Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online | Open Culture This collection may be more of interest to history classes versus primary and intermediate classes. The books look really interesting, I really like Elfin Rhymes (mentioned in the article). Since these books are in the Public…
