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.
This isn’t a big deal with Google Apps for Education accounts, since they have unlimited space, but for your personal Google accounts, Google is offering 2GB additional storage for completing a security check up on your Google account. Head on over to Google’s Security Checkup for yours.
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: TooManyTabs for Chrome – Chrome Web Store Another day, and another way to manage Tabs in the Chrome browser. I’ve mentioned several tab managers in the past, and here’s another one. I currently don’t use a tab manager, except for relying on the built in capabilities of the browser. Vivaldi is nice in that…
Source: uCalc is a universal builder of calculators and forms The free version of uCalc allows you to create up to 3 different forms or calculators. The forms can be used collect information, or, in combination of the calculator, can collect information that is calculated based on what the user entered. The forms part of…
Source: Collect. Collaborate. Share. | share.link share.link is a service that lets you create pages of web links. These pages may be shared with others or they may be collaborated on with others. You get started by creating an account. Google logins are accepted, or you can use Facebook or email account. Once you are…
Sesame is a platform to document and assess mastery of skills. Source: Welcome | Sesame Sesame lets students submit all types of work to the teacher for assessment and/or to provide instant feedback. The website can integrate with 1,000s of apps and had curriculum standards built in. There are also customizable rubrics and check lists…