Whenever you get a new computer there is a bit of an adjustment period while learning the nuances of that new computer and or operating system. If you find yourself with a new Chromebook for the 2016/2017 school year, you may go through a bit of an adjustment period. To help you go trough that adjustment…
Word cloud generators provide students with a nice way to visualize the most frequently used words in a passage of text. There are plenty of word cloud creation tools on the web. There is even a Google Docs Add-on for making word clouds. One relatively newer tool for making word clouds is found at WordClouds.com….
The History Project is a great site for collaboratively creating multimedia timelines. The History Project includes an audio recording tool that you can use to talk about events in the timelines that you create. The History Project lets you upload your own pictures or import pictures from social networks to add to the audio recordings contained in…
Formative is an excellent tool for gathering feedback from students. Through Formative you can collect students’ responses to multiple choice, short answer, and true/false questions in realtime. One of my favorite features of Formative is the option to have students draw or diagram responses to questions. The other Formative feature that I enjoy is the ability to…
Last week Evernote announced that the free plan they have offered for years is going to be changed later this month. Part of that change includes only allowing you to use Evernote on two devices. As I use three devices or more in the course of a typical week, the new Evernote free plan won’t work…
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