The Pudding’s data visualizations are amazing.
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Oh my goodness, the Pudding’s visualizations and research are amazing. I could spend all day reading through their data and seeing the data visualized. If The Pudding has covered a topic you are covering in class, their visualizations and information would be well worth sharing!
I stumbled upon another option to record screencasts with Chrome and Chromebooks, CaptureCast. This extension has some nice features that the Nimbus tool doesn’t have. Most notably, webcam, Google Drive, YouTube, and Vimeo support. With CaptureCast, you can overlay your webcam video onto the screencast, or record only your webcam. Once you are finished recording,…
Copying and pasting content into individual slides can be tedious. There has to be a better way! Now that Google Apps Script allows us to code Google Slides I have some new templates for you to try! The Doc to Slides Add-on will allow you to take content from a Google Doc and push it…
Axiom is a Chrome application that can organize your digital media plus annotate and collaborate with them. The service can be used to collect documents, including multimedia, for various uses, such as collecting homework or brainstorming ideas by marking up the documents or multimedia. There is a free level which allows you to store 10…
TIC-80 is a fantasy computer, patterned after retro computers from the 80s. I’ve mentioned PICO-8 before, and if you have used it, then TIC-80 will feel right at home. The big advantage of TIC-80 over PICO-8 is that TIC-80 is completely usable in the browser. That means it will run on anything with a browser,…
Source: Jumpstart Your Essays and Papers | WriteWell WriteWell is a combination of an online writing app and writing resources. After signing in, students can select from a list of essay topics and outlines to help them get started with their writing. These templates can be downloaded as .docx files, so the student does not have…
Source: Codemoji® – Coding for Kids! I love all of the different takes on getting kids coding, and Codemoji® looks at using emojis to replace a lot of the static code someone would use when learning programming. Without an account, students can use the a few different playgrounds to get their feet wet. Codemoji® also…