Opportunities, barriers, and considerations for teachers and developers working with VR,
Source: Virtual Reality In the Classroom, It’s Worth It If You Do It Right
I love reading stories of actual experience in the classroom with new technologies!
Niftio is an online presentation software with a huge content library and dozens of designer made templates, hundreds of free stock photos and many more. Source: Niftio – A whole presentation platform for professionals I always like options for presentations, it keeps presentations looking fresh. Who can’t immediately identify a Prezi presenation? Niftio is currently…
Throughout the years I’ve saved bookmarks in various places. At first, I only used the browser. That worked ok, but was limiting because bookmarks didn’t sync between different machines back then, so I started looking at alternatives and found https://del.icio.us, the hard to spell but great to use bookmark service. This service introduced me to…
Source: Backpack for Google Drive – a student-centered, Google-based approach to student portfolios. This could be a nice way to use Google’s products in the creation of student portfolios. The biggest issue I see is that they are breaking my number one rule when dealing with vendors, no pricing information is available. If I have…
Source: Codevolve Codevolve is a website designed to interactively teach programming. The interface looks a lot like codecademy.com, but Codevolve puts the emphasis on learning skills, not badges. Another nice feature is Storyboard, where you can create your own assignments.
Source: YouTube Captions Search – Chrome Web Store Here’s a pretty cool extension to help your students locate information in YouTube videos. Once the extension is installed, you can search for specific words in videos that have closed captioning or subtitles. It is especially helpful when you are looking for a specific piece of information…
What’s in this list? In this collection of Scratch projects, we’ve tried to represent the vastly diverse ways that Scratch can be used across subject areas and grade levels. Though we have divided the projects by subject area, almost all of these projects are interdisciplinary. How can I use this list? In addition to interacting with…