September 3, 2018
If you have not heard of Immersive Reader I politely beg of you to check it out I even made a video for you
Immersive Reader is part of Microsoft's learning tools and is available to you BYOD for free. https://www.onenote.com/learningtools In the video below I overview Immersive Reader. This has even helped myself with reading longer documents that I usually struggle with. It's…
July 22, 2018
Rewordify. Making the difficult easier to read and adding some education on top of it.
I have been showing Rewordify for a few years now but will plead guilty to not showing it as often as I should. In the video below I give you a brief introduction to this great website which takes difficult words and rewords them and then offers a host of other way to learn about all the words…
July 16, 2018
Versal. An Expansive Online Course Builder that in its most basic form is a free replacement for Wikispaces
I have known about Versal for years. It is easily one of the solutions I feel guilty that I do not show as often as I should. Versal allows you to create immersive learning modules that can be accessed online. Now that we are saying goodbye to Wikispaces I realized the free version…
July 15, 2018
The Upcoming Catscan Feature on Padlet. Currently iOS Only
Brainstorming with students or fellow educators? Are there various documents, post its, whiteboards and more surrounding you and you would like to get all of them to one place to reference them and the possibly add information? Padlet is currently previewing a feature called Catscan. At the time of…
July 15, 2018
What? There is a Backchannel Option in Padlet? Yes. Yes there is.
I am kicking myself a tiny bit that when I was looking into Backchannel tools to replace Todays Meet I completely missed that Padlet had added a Backchannel layout. It works really well and lets you do all those Padelt things you know and love such as add images and videos. In the video below I…
July 11, 2018
Microsoft Translator. Another Alternative to Today’s Meet?
During a July 2018 Webinar, I showed the amazing Microsoft Translator as a possible backchannel replacement to the discontinued Today's Meet. The reception was so positive that I thought a video blog post was in order. So, here it is. My quick video overview of how to possibly use…
July 10, 2018
A Quick Overview of Google Street View
Google has made a couple of changes to Street View which make it a great tool in the classroom for discovering, exploring and creating 360-degree images. You can download the app on iOS as well as Android. I provide a quick 8-minute overview of Google Street View below.
July 9, 2018
Google VR Tour Creator
Google VR Tour Creator (website) is a new website that allows you to quickly and easily create VR tours complete with additional content as well as audio. I usually only have a few moments to show it while I am presenting and thought it deserved a more proper (as proper as I can be mind you)…
May 26, 2018
OCR is hiding out in Google Drive here is how to access it
Did you know you can do OCR in Google Drive which just one small change in a setting? I show how to use the OCR feature hiding out in Google Drive in the video below. While this does not work on complex documents or halfway decent to worse handwriting it works great for images with text in…
May 23, 2018
Gimkit a Fast Paced Online Assessment Tool For Your Classroom or PD
Gimkit is an easy to set up group quiz based assessment tool which is fast-paced. Unlike other solutions in this space, Gimkit has a monetization component where students build up in-game cash that can then be used to purchase in-game upgrades. You can also paste any Quizlet into Gimkit. Thank…