Dave’s Mapper is a fun little site for generating fictional maps. The main purpose of the site is to generate maps for role playing games, but it could also be used by students in the classroom. Design projects such as creating a town or community could benefit from this tool, allowing the students to easily create a map for their community.
Here’s a neat little project from Google. The site will ask for a word, and then take your picture. The AI will convert your picture in to art and create a poem based on the word.
Source: Tinysheet There are times you need Excel, and then there are times you just want to do some quick calculations. Tinysheet is a great app for the latter. With Tinysheet you get 2 columns and 10 rows in the spreadsheet which are not resizable. The site works very much like a spreadsheet, allowing you…
An illustrated, interactive guide to Dante’s Inferno Source: Infernal topography This is for all the students and teachers studying Dante’s Inferno. Each level is represented with graphics and information, and you can zoom in and around each level. There is a full list of characters and linkage to the actual poem on Wikipedia.
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…
Syncing settings in Vivaldi. Source: The browser that puts you in control | Vivaldi In my initial article about Vivaldi, my biggest complaint was the lack of sync. Well, with the release of 2.0 that problem has been rectified. Along with syncing, creating a vivaldi.net account gives you access to participate in the Vivaldi forums, an…
Google has several advanced tools for searching the web, but, they require several clicks to use. Fast Advanced Google Search is a Google Chrome extension that gives you quick access to these advanced tools. Once installed, the extension can be invoked with an alt-G, with the cursor focus in the Keywords box. From that point on, you can…