TED-Ed has a new YouTube series for kids about coding
Episode 2 is coming this month, I can’t wait! This is a great introduction into programming, covering some of the basics.
Source: Glide – Amazing apps from Google Sheets I’m planning on writing a longer article on using Glide, but it looks way too cool not to share now. For free, you can create a mobile app based on a Google Sheet. For now, here is their intro video on the website.
Checker Plus for Gmail™ – is my new favorite Chrome extension! At first, the power of Checker Plus for Gmail™ – is understated. Sure, there is a new icon of an envelope in the toolbar, and when you receive an email, the icon changes to show the number of unread messages. That’s all fine and…
Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Apps Name Shark is an iPhone and iPad app designed to help you learn names. To get started, you enter the names and pictures of…
Google Sites is a great way to publish a website, but, Google doesn’t make it easy to distribute a template of a Google Site to your students or other staff members. I have figured out one way to easily copy a Google site. This allows you to make a template of the site and then…
Another option to quiet Youtube – DF Tube, Distraction Free for YouTube. Source: DF Tube (Distraction Free for YouTube™) – Chrome Web Store There are several ways to cut out all of the extra cruft that YouTube puts up, and here is another. Once installed, DF Tube is a Chrome extension that gives you the ability to…
Source: Storytelling | Arts and humanities | Khan Academy Disney’s Imagineering in a box consists of two different takes on the storytelling process. The first class, Imagineering in a box, takes participants through several lessons on what goes on when designing theme parks and attractions. The second class, Pixar in a box: the art of…