December 4, 2019
You Can Now Create Your Own Voyages in Google Earth
Google Voyager. You can find it at: https://earth.google.com/web/data=CgQSAggB Google Voyager uses Google Earth but adds a layer of education in the form of a guided tour. Using Google Earth as a backdrop, Voyager will add additional text and photo content and lead you on a point to point tour…
November 20, 2019
Taking a look at Voice Control in iOS 13
Voice Control allows you to speak commands to your iOS device and is a powerful tool for those who need assistive help. As many products thankfully become more assistive we also begin to realize the benefit these features might have for everyone. In the video below, I stumble a bit, but, show you…
November 20, 2019
Practice your presentation and learn how to present it more effectively using the Microsoft PowerPoint Presenter Coach
Presenter Coach (which at the time of this posting is in Preview is available on PowerPoint Web) will use your devices microphone to follow along as you practice your presentation and provide on the spot insight as to when you are using filler words, are talking too fast or slow, use phrases which…
November 17, 2019
Design Ideas Has Been Updated in Microsoft PowerPoint and It’s Pretty Cool.
Design Ideas has been around for a few years in Microsoft Powerpoint, but, it recently got a small update (currently in preview) which uses Artificial Intelligence to help enhance the design of your presentation even more. In this video I will show you how Design Ideas will take cues from what…
September 9, 2019
The New Content Creation Tool in Kahoot!
In September 2019, Kahoot updated their content creation tool. Easily my favorite new feature as part of this update is the Question Bank which lets you add individual questions via a search of the millions of published Kahoots. Other new features? More characters for your title and answers, more…
September 9, 2019
Merge Cube Updates. The Merge Explorer App has some new features and new friends.
The video is a quick overview of the Merge Explorer app and its recent additions. The free Merge Apps Galactic Explorer as well as Mr Body have been updated and are now part of the Merge Explorer App. Also added to Merge Explorer? Immersive Reader! Which helps people who struggle with reading…
August 28, 2019
Shakeup Learning Podcast Interview
Kasey Bell from Shakeup Learning invited me to be a guest on her podcast. In this podcast we talk a bit about Microsoft and all the things I learned about them in the past year, my favorite gadgets that make my life a little bit easier and even talk about Rocketbook. I really enjoyed my time…
August 13, 2019
Have your students create your Gimkit questions using KitColab!
This video blog post is assuming you know what Gimkit is. If Gimkit is new to you I would suggest you first check out this video blog post first. Within Gimkit is a great feature called KitCollab which lets students submit questions using Gimkit. You as the instructor then have the option to…
August 12, 2019
Closed Captioning with Immersive Reader support is now in Flipgrid
On August 1st 2019, Flipgrid added Closed Caption and Immersive Reader support. Now, when students click on a video they will also see closed captioning and all of the assistive features Immersive Reader offers. Including language translation. This video overviews how to display Closed…
August 12, 2019
The new video recorder in Flipgrid might be the Chromebook video recorder you have been waiting for
First off, I apologize for a little bit of a Godzilla effect in this video. Also, I am thrilled to be able to reference Godzilla for it is far and away my moms favorite thing. That and Scooby Doo. You can play either show at any point of said show and she will know the exact show and what happened…