The game machine W2L Info Published on December 1st, 2013 | by What2Learn Are you looking to make your own study game? At What2Learn you can quickly and easily create an incredibly wide range of interactive learning activities including hangman games, quizzes, interactive word searches, extended writing activities and much more. No technical skills or programming knowledge is required to make these fun and effective study games – simply fill in the blanks with your own questions and answers and your flash-based game is instantly created and available for your students to play online. If you would like to create some games in the meantime, please sign up for a great value student or teacher Premium Account. Take a look below at the fantastic games you could soon be making… Hangman-style study games Simply provide eight single word answers to make your game. Q & A quizzes Provide eight questions and answers. Anagram study games Provide eight questions and answers. Matching activities Interactive wordsearches
Drawing tool ThinkBinder Create Professionally Looking Posters for Your Class Using Lucidpress May 21, 2015 A few months ago we posted here a list of some powerful web tools to use for creating educational flyers and posters. Today, we were reminded by Briton that the popular Lucidpress does provide a very good poster maker that teachers can use to create professionally looking posters for their class. Lucidpress poster maker is an easy to use web tool with a simple drag-and-drop interface that allows teachers to design beautiful posters and flyers to use in classroom. Besides the premium templates, Lucidpress maker provides a wide variety of inspirational templates to use with your posters. The free Lucidpress plan offers only 25MB of storage space and few other features, basic and pro plans have more advanced features and a storage capacity that goes up to 5 GB. Watch the short video below to learn more about Lucidpmess.
WriteComics.com - Create your own comics! 8 Overlooked Useful YouTube Tools When most people think about YouTube they think sharing videos and or about all of the videos they can discover. Most people don't think about the useful editing tools that are built into YouTube. The YouTube video editor has some useful features for teachers and students. 1. Create photo slideshows. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Ladda ner online videos gratis – ladda ned film från YouTube, Facebook, MSN, SVT, TV4 och många fler Microsoft Released A New Website to Help Teachers Use Minecraft in Their Classes July 10, 2015 Minecraft is an immersive learning environment that has started as a game about creating, exploring and managing resources before it becomes one of the leading educational learning platforms for students. A few days ago, Microsoft, Minecraft’s parent company, announced the release of a new website, Minecraft for Education, geared towards providing teachers with a forum where they can share their ideas about how they use Minecraft in their teaching. ‘Minecraft in education is a way to teach, learn and inspire. Here are some examples of how some teachers are using Minecraft in their classes: Elementary students in Seattle are learning foundational math skills by calculating perimeter, area and volume in Minecraft during a Saturday math program.
Top Three QR Code Reader Apps for Teachers March, 2015 Looking for some good iPad apps for scanning and reading QR codes? Here are the three titles we recommend the most. Of course, there are several other good QR reader apps out but the ones we are featuring today are especially helpful in that they allow you to scan and take you directly to the linked website.The first app in this list has an added feature which is that of creating PDF files from scanned materials. 1- QR Reader QR Reader allows you to scan QR codes, barcodes, and word and easily share your scanned files. 2- Quick Scan “Quick Scan helps you scan and decode all the QR codes around you, including contact, detail, plain text, website URL, telephone number, SMS message, email address, email message, calendar event, locations and more. 3- QR Code Reader and Scanner This app allows you to scan both QR codes and barcodes quickly and in real time.
Speech to Text in Google Documents Last week I published a list of ten good Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms Add-ons. This week through a Tweet by Jen Deyenberg I learned of another good one to add to the list. Speech Recognition is a free Google Docs Add-on that will allow to you speak to create a document. Get the Add-on by selecting "Get Add-ons" from the Add-ons drop-down menu in a Google Document. The Speech Recognition Add-on does have one major flaw. Last week I published a list of ten good Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms Add-ons. Speech Recognition is a free Google Docs Add-on that will allow to you speak to create a document. The Speech Recognition Add-on does have one major flaw.
Ett år med Chromebook – fördelar och nackdelar - VD-BLOGG På nyårsafton 2013 köpte jag en Chromebook, en bärbar dator som man inte kan köra några program på. Allt sker i webbläsaren Chrome. Under det år jag nu har använt den har jag noterar vad som fungerat bra och vad som fungerat mindre bra. För dig som funderar på att gå över till Chromebook från exempelvis Mac (som jag nu slutat med efter nästan trettio år!) tänkte jag dela med mig lite av mina upplevelser under det här första året. Fördelar med Chromebook Snabb Den viktigaste fördelen för mig är hur otroligt snabbt den startar. Tyst Chromebook är underbart tyst – helt ljudlös faktiskt. Stabil Chromebook är ruggigt stabil, att den hänger sig inträffar i princip aldrig. En del saker att lära om för den som är van vid en vanlig desktop-dator (och att lära nytt från början för andra): man behöver sällan spara något – istället för att lära sig det får man lära sig hålla utkik efter synk-ikoner. Nackdelar med Chromebook Plastig Känslan är lite plastig, inte så solid som man skulle önska. Evernote?
A Wonderful Free Tool for Creating Interactive eBooks for Your Class August 2, 2015Kindle Textbook Creator is a free software application that allows you to easily convert your educational content saved in PDF format into Kindle books.These include textbooks, course notes, study guides and many more. Using Kindle Textbook Creator, you will be able to enhance the readability of your content with features such as audio, video, and image pop-ups. Once your eBook is ready, you can publish it through Kindle direct publishing and make it available for readers on different devices including fire tablets, iPad, Android tables and Mac and PC computers. Kindle Textbook Creator also includes a preview mode that shows authors which interactive features are supported on different devices. This software is available for free download for both Windows 7 & 8 and and for Mac OS X 10.9 and above. Watch the video below to learn more about Kindle Textbook Creator