Three Maker Apps to Spark Young Imaginations
…Their comments highlight what the maker movement is and isn’t. It’s not about the stuff: the 3-D printers, the soldering irons, the sewing machines, the iPads, or the craft materials. A successful experience is about learning and innovation.
The first one, Foldify, works well even with a limited number of iPads and the characters created can be used for all sorts of project, like stop motion videos.
From the I didn’t know I needed this department comes ASCIIFlow. Are you tired of having your diagrams being fancy? Would you like to go back to a simpler time of diagramming, where you only need a hyphen, plus sign, or capital X? Then ASCIIFlow is for you. I could see this being used to draw up simple graphs…
Source: Screen Recorder | Free, Private, No Ads Screen Recorder creates a screencast, with or without a microphone. That’s it. No editing, no webcam, no nothing. When the recording is complete, you can download a movie file in .webm format. Sure, if you have access to Screencastify (free during the current crisis) Loom (free for…
Source: Change Case – Google Docs add-on When I stumbled upon this add-on, I was thinking, “Doesn’t Google Docs offer a change case tool?”. Apparently, it doesn’t, but with this add-on, it can! This is great to use when you are trying to CORRECT SOMEONE WHO HAS DECIDED TO YELL THROUGHOUT YOUR DOCUMENT.
Scratch 3.0 is released today! Source: 3 Things To Know About Scratch 3.0 – The Scratch Team Blog – Medium Scratch 3.0 is scheduled to be released this afternoon! Scratch is an online programming development environment that uses multicolored blocks instead of code. The new version is tablet friendly, discarding Flash which makes Scratch usable on iPads for the first…
Source: Redacted Sometimes you just want to quickly do one thing to an image, and launch a full blown image editor seems to be a waste. Here’s one of those tools that you can quickly use to blur out parts of an image. I’ve covered another tool in the past, Image Blur. Redacted does one…
Coda is an online document and app creator that is free. Apps created with Coda look like a regular document, but with interactive features. To get an idea on what is possible, check out the templates page. A Google account is required to sign in and use Coda. Coda documents can be shared with others…