Source: Introducing Pandora Stories! — AMP Playbook
Pandora Stories is a way to build podcasts that include songs from the Pandora library. Pandora handles the licensing, you supply the commentary. I’m waiting to be approved, so I can’t see what the interface looks like, but this could be something that musically centered students could get excited about.
Bust out some mad AI generated rhymes with BeatBot. Source: Itay Niv – BeatBot BeatBot is an experiment in music generation, using a stead beat in which you lay down your rhythms. Once you have a good beat going, BeatBot can automatically generate a rap. Don’t hold your breath on the quality of the rap, it’s usually hilarious gibberish.
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.
Sway is a Microsoft tool that can be used for digital storytelling, presentations, and reports. Once signed in (Sway requires a Microsoft account), you can create a new sway or upload a Word, PowerPoint or PDF to use. The presentation is created with different types of media that is added to the story line. I added…
One of the greatest productivity tools that I use is a clipboard manager. A clipboard manager is a piece of software that allows you to store multiple items in your clipboard at once. Each manager gives you options on how long to keep items and what to do with items such as passwords. With the…
Source: MindMeister – Google Docs add-on The add-on is not a replacement for full mind mapping software, but for sprucing up a report, it will do fine. The add-on takes a bullet-ed list and creates a mind map out of it.
Source: tixy.land It took me awhile to wrap my head around tixy.land, but the author’s Twitter announcement thread helps. Basically, you have one line of up to 32 characters at the bottom of the screen where you write your code. The math of the examples is above my head, but maybe some math teachers can…