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Mixkit is a website that offers hundreds of free music files and videos that you can download to use in your multimedia projects. The licensing terms for assets on Mixkit are clear. You can download videos and audio files from Mixkit to re-use and remix. You don't have to credit Mixkit, but they will appreciate it if you do. No comment yet.
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Word Webs is a free site that generates connected webs based on the words you enter and select. Generate a web simply head to the site and enter a word. A web of six related words will be generated on the screen. Click on any of those six words to have another connected web created.
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Summarize news articles, blog posts, and videos and AI will extract the key sentences Via Nik Peachey 
Peter Lakeman's curator insight,
February 10, 2020 4:02 AM
Google chrome extensie om automatisch samenvattingen van teksten te maken met AI
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Unsplash is one of my top recommendations for places to find images that are in the public domain. Last August Unsplash introduced collections intended for educational uses. This week Unsplash added more collections that have great potential for classroom uses.
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Quill is a great educational platform you can use with your students to help them enhance their writing skills. It provides a wide variety of materials designed specifically to help students become better writers. Using Quill is simple and easy. Teachers set up their classrooms in Quill and invite students to join using unique codes. If you use Google Classroom you can import your class with a single click. Once created you can then start using the different services provided by Quill.
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Do your students love a good infographic? Kids in the middle grades are frequently drawn to infographics because of their visual appeal and because information is presented in small bites. An infographic may be just one graphic, like a diagram, chart, or map, or it may be a compilation of graphics like the NASA infographic below.
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For those of you who haven't seen it yet, here is a collection of some good web tools to help you create digital quizzes. You can use them to design interactive quizzes, questionnaire, forms, polls and many more. The tools are easy and simple to use and no software installation is required. Check them out and share with us your feedback. Links of the tools are under the visual.
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VidReader was one of my favorite new tools in 2019. It's a tool that makes it easy to create an interactive transcript of any YouTube video. This morning I used to to create a transcript of a video. When I used VidReader this morning I noticed two new features that I hadn't previously seen. Those two new-to-me features are the option to share a direct link to the transcription page and the option to download the transcript as a PDF.
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Fear not! As said before, there are a select handful of free word processors out there that match Microsoft Word in many respects and surpass it in others. We’ve sifted through every word processor we could think of and narrowed them down for our definitive list of the 4 Best Free Word Processors For 2020.
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Last night my friend Beth emailed me to ask if I had any tutorials for beginning Google Forms users. My answer was, "I sure do!" These were the three Google Forms tutorials that sent to her to share with the group of teachers she's working with right now.
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Where do you go when you want to learn about new EdTech tools? From checking out new blog posts (like this one!) to searching hashtags on social media, there are lots of ways to learn about new EdTech tools. When I attend a conference, I also stay on the lookout for companies that have just come on the scene. This way, I can connect with them, ask them questions, and see if their booth is “buzzing” with excitement from other educators, too.
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Improve your online safety with tools for your needs. Answer a few simple questions to get personalized recommendations of free and open-source software. It's confidential -- no personal information is stored, and we won't access any of your online accounts. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Reverb is a relatively new service (still in beta) that is designed to let people create short voice recordings to share with others. The concept is similar to Voxer and Synth in that you can record a message for a group to listen to and then members of that group can reply with voice messages of their own. Reverb Record is a recording tool offered by Reverb that you can to record and share with the world. |
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ProtonMail is the world's largest secure email service, developed by CERN and MIT scientists. We are open source and protected by Swiss privacy law Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
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There's no shortage of options for sharing documents and more with friends, family, and colleagues. These are your best bets.
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As some of you know, I'm took over a computer science program at my local vocational/ technical high school this year. It has been fun and, at times, has made me feel like a brand new teacher again. When I took the job I told my director that I'd be fine with the programming side of things. It was the networking and hardware that I was concerned about. Fortunately, I've been able to brush-up fairly quickly with the help of some instructor resources from Cisco and a great YouTube channel called PowerCert Animated Videos.
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In today's post we are sharing with you four practical Chrome extensions that will enable you to search the web in more efficient and effective ways. More specifically, using these extensions you will be able to easily access and search for scholarly articles, find similar web pages to the page you are currently browsing, initiate a Google search using images, and many more.
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For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, here is a handy visual featuring what we think are some of the best educational web tools for Bloom’ taxonomy. For each of Bloom’s thinking levels we came up with a number of suggested tools that go with it. We have been very selective concerning the choices included and because of space constraints we excluded several other tools that worth the mention here. Also, the visual is not hyperlinked, check out the chart at the bottom of the page for links of the featured tools.
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I’ve recently been working on a six month accessibility project at the Ministry of Justice. This has involved dealing with a lot of different things but one of the main outputs has been some accessibility testing training I’ve created.
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Last spring I had a chance to see Dan Russell give a presentation of a new Google search tool called Dataset Search. It spent 2019 in beta. Last week it lost beta label and is now widely available to anyone who wants to use it.
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9.30 - 10.00 Registration 10.00 Welcome and housekeeping 10.15 - 11.00 Group Discussion. 11:00-11:40 Presentation 11.00 - 11.40 Decolonising LSE Collections - Kevin Wilson (London School of Economics) 11.40 - 11.50 Tea break 11:50 - 13:10 Presentations 11.50 - 12.30 Broaden my Bookshelf: working with the University of Huddersfield SU to tackle the attainment gap -…
Elizabeth E Charles's insight:
Presentations at this conference have been uploaded to this site. Event held on 24 January 2020 at Goldsmiths University.
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We took the liberty of testing a litany of web browsers and whittled them down for our definitive list of the 4 Best Web Browsers For 2020. There are some familiar names and some surprises on this list, but all of them offer the same ease of use and peak functionality that is essential for the best of web browsers.
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Over the last few months YouTube added a number of interesting features to enhance your youTube viewing experience and enable you to create great videos using YouTube Editor. For instance, if you have recently accessed YouTube through your mobile device you will notice a new feature called Live Stream added there. Similar to Facebook live stream, YouTube live streaming allows you to connect with your audience and broadcast content live. To learn more about this feature, check out these guidelines from this page.
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Which news sites can students trust? These great, classroom-friendly news apps and sites can give students different perspectives on key current events. Find options for students of all grade levels -- all un-biased, well-researched, and guaranteed to pique students' interest. 
Marco Bertolini's curator insight,
January 23, 2020 3:11 AM
Where to find the best news for students? Here is a great collections of online newspapers and magazines you should recommend to your students ;)
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That’s why I’m so excited to share the Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens curricula for elementary, middle, and high school students. |
