Each spring, the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation dedicate a week to celebrating the protected spaces in our communities. Today, we’re bringing the national parks to you in a Google Earth guided tour through 31 different parks around the country.
Source: Explore U.S. National Parks in Google Earth
What a cool set up. These tours would work with a lot of different classwork, from social studies to language arts.
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Source: Presentations for the classroom | Sutori I’m surprised I haven’t read about Sutori before. Sutori is based around its concept of stories. A Sutori story is a lesson that can be displayed as a web page or as a presentation. What’s cool is that you can plan out the lesson with activities and information…
Google’s new app, available in the Chrome Web Store, lets you easily access files on a network server from within Chrome OS. Source: Chromebooks can now seamlessly access Windows network file shares | PCWorld Although the article focusses on Windows file sharing, macOS computer can use the same networking protocol, SMB. This means that the…
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