PBS LearningMedia – This is a free online resource tool for teachers and students filled with media content, lesson ideas, picture gallery, quiz builder, storyboard templates and so much more. Check out their about video.
Osmo for iPad
Are you looking for a way for students to interact with the iPad? Osmo does just that. Osmo is a gaming system that supports learning in social emotion skills, creative thinking, art, STEM, and common core. There are five apps to use with the base station: Numbers, Words, Newton, Tangram, and Masterpiece. Students can work in pairs, small groups or alone.
Tangram – spatial relational skills.
Words – spelling and critical thinking skills.
Newton – creative problem solving skills.
Masterpiece – drawing and creative confidence.
Numbers – counting, addition and multiplication.
Check out the video below.
Video Editing Tools
Have you ever wanted to shorten a video that you have found on YouTube, TedTalk or anywhere online? There are several options to do this. TubeChop, Vibby, and EdPuzzle can help you. Read more about these tools in this blog post.
Google Drive: Exporting Files as EPUB
Google Apps now has the ability to download (export) files in EPUB format. EPUB is the file format used to access documents and digital books on a variety of devices. If you’d like to download files as an EPUB – simply go to the File menu – Download as – EPUB Publication (.epub).
Google Drive Update
In the coming weeks, Google will unveil a more efficient way to see who you have shared google drive folders with. You may already be familiar with the “people icon” next to a folder or file that you have shared with someone. In the update, when you hover over the “people icon” you will see who a folder’s been shared with and with what permission level.
Read&Write for Google
Read&Write for Google makes the web and files in Google Drive accessible to anyone who needs support with their reading and writing. Read&Write is available to all teachers as well as students in grades 3rd-12th.
Features of Read&Write:
Hear text read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
Convert speech to text
Hear text translated into other languages
Understand the meaning of words with the help of text and picture dictionaries
Get suggestions for the current or next word as you type (word prediction)
Use the toolbar on webpages
Here is a link to Read&Write Resources and Tutorials.
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