ScriptSlide is an interesting add-on for Google Presentations that takes the speaker notes in your Google Presentations and displays them in a teleprompter-like screen that you can operate with your phone. That may sound complicated, but it is not. Here is how ScriptSlide works. First write your presentation with speaker notes as you would normally…
The second presentation in the Practical Ed Tech Creativity Conference was the 3D Printing Solutions by World Issues by Jeremy Rinkel. Here’s how Jeremy described the presentation, With an emphasis and focus on the sustainability goals of the UN, students were challenged to make prototypes or products that would be useful to help communities and…
Earlier this week I wrote about how my students use Google Sites as digital portfolios. Immediately afterwards I published that Google message announced a few useful updates for Google Sites. Then another update was announced yesterday. The latest update is perhaps the best so far for those who use Google Sites in a collaborative environment….
After yesterday’s message about tools for improving the accessibility of websites, slides, and videos, I received some feedback from readers who commented that I hadn’t said anything about Firefox. That was not intentional, it was a complete overview on my part because I personally do not use Firefox that often and neither of my students….
Multi.link is a new service that allows you to easily share all your social media profiles, websites that you own, videos that you take and photos on one simple page. If you want to use Multi.link, simply go to the site, sign up within one minute and start adding links. You can link to just…
Photos of corn like the ones in this blog post have become symbols of fall harvest and Thanksgiving. Corn and many products made with it are nowadays an important part of the diet of many of us. How has corn become a staple of our diet? What has made it one of the most cultivated…
Earlier this week I published a video about a neat new service called Transo with which you can make a mind map with one click of your notes. By making that video and writing the corresponding blog post, I had to review a list of mind map tools that I had published a few months…
Transno is a new service with which you can write notes and overviews with just one click, which can then be converted into mind maps and flow charts. It reminds me of the old Text2MindMap service that I used to use. Transno is better because it offers a variety of styles for mind maps and…
The web version of Google Earth has been available for more than two years. In those two years, it has lagged behind the desktop version in terms of the availability of features. That is starting to change now that Google has finally added the option to make guided tours of the web version of Google…
Google has released a handful of updates for products that teachers and students often use. I reported a few of them earlier in the week and a few that I didn’t mention except on the podcast. If you’ve missed the podcast or posts earlier this week, here’s an overview of the things that Google has…
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