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How to Tweak and Rearrange Android’s Quick Settings Dropdown. If you swipe down from Android’s menu bar twice, you’ll get a nice panel of quick settings you can toggle with one tap. Want to hide some of these settings, move them around, or add new ones? You have a few choices. Android 7.0 Nougat finally added the ability to customize this menu, though it was available in 6.0 Marshmallow from within a hidden menu called “System UI Tuner”.

If you’re rooted, however, you can get even more options on any version of Android, Marshmallow or otherwise. Nougat Users: Use the Built-In Customization Customizing the Quick Settings area on Android phones has long been a tweak that custom ROMs and other root mods offer, but with Android 7.0 Nougat, it’s a baked-in feature. First things first: go ahead and give the notification area a tug to pull show the top of the Quick Settings panel and notifications. On the bottom-right corner, you should see an “Edit” button. This will, unsurprisingly, open the Quick Settings Edit menu. "THERE IS A DIVINITY . . . There is a divinity within me that...

The “All-Time” Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly (2014) I’ve been posting annual lists of the Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly for seven years. I thought it would be useful for readers, my students, and me to review them all and identify my choices for the “all-time” best ones. These web tools are excellent ways for English Language Learners, and others who might not be very tech-savvy, to have a good experience working with technology.

In order to make it on this list, web tools must be: * accessible to English Language Learners. * able to provide a learning opportunity. * available at no-cost. * able to be used to easily create engaging online content within minutes. * willing to host user-created work indefinitely on the website itself. * appropriate for classroom use. * accessible without requiring registration.

You might also be interested in The “All-Time” Best 2.0 Tools For Beginning English Language Learners and The “All-Time” Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education. Quozio lets you to create attractive illustrated quotes. Padlet | Search Results. As regular readers know, I’ve begun posting my mid-year “The Best….” lists. There are nearly 1,500 regularly updated lists now.

You can see them all here. As usual, in order to make this list, a site has to be: * accessible to English Language Learners and non-tech savvy users. * free-of-charge. * appropriate for classroom use. * completely browser-based with no download required (however, I’ve begun to make exceptions for special mobile apps). Some sites I’m including this year are primarily geared towards teachers creating content for classroom use, but could also easily be used by students. It’s possible that a few of these sites began earlier than this year, but, if so, I’m including them in this list because they were “new to me” in 2015. You might want to visit previous editions, as well as The “All-Time” Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education; The “All-Time” Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly and The “All-Time” Best 2.0 Tools For Beginning English Language Learners. Websites Of The Year.

These “The Best…” lists highlight what I think are the best educational websites. This page provides a chronological list based on the date I posted them. Please note, though, that I continually update and revise them. The My Best Of page on this blog separates these posts by category (Social Studies, Science, etc.). All these sites can also be found on my website, along with thousands of other categorized links. You can also visit The Best Websites page on my website to see the growing number of student self-access versions that are available now. I also go back during the year to update each list with new sites I find that I think deserve to be on them. So far, I’ve compiled: The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2007 The Best Web 2.0 Applications for ESL/EFL Learners — 2007 The Best Online Learning Games — 2007 The Best Internet Sites For English Language Learners — 2007 The Best Social Studies Websites — 2007 The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners — 2007 Best “Tweets” Of 2009.

The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”) NOTE: First, Wallwisher, the popular virtual “corkboard” or “bulletin board” Web tool changed their name — they’re now known as Padlet (though all their old links using the Wallwisher name work fine). Now, Corkboard.Me, a similar tool, just announced they’re changing their name, too — they are now known as NoteApp. Wallwisher was the first online application that let you easily place virtual post-it notes on a virtual corkboard or bulletin board, and allow you to post text, images, and/or videos on them.

This kinds of apps have many uses. I particularly like them for easy social bookmarking (my students, for example, post their favorite language-learning games on them so their classmates can try them out. I also have students use them to supplement inductive data sets (a series of pieces of information about a topic( they have categorized in the classroom. Here are my choices for The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”): Popplet is like Wallwisher on steroids. Related. Corkboard - Share your best ideas. Listhings - take sticky notes online. Lino - Sticky and Photo Sharing for you. Lighthouse Internet Media. Online Whiteboard & Online Collaboration Tool | RealtimeBoard. Free Technology for Teachers.

Online Whiteboard & Online Collaboration Tool | RealtimeBoard. The Best List Of Mindmapping, Flow Chart Tools, & Graphic Organizers. I’m just making this a very “quick and dirty” list — at least for now — because, for the life of me, I can’t figure out how or why all the online mindmapping and flow-chart tools that are out there have any educational application.

It seems to me that there really isn’t much of a value-added benefit to doing any of this online as opposed to doing it on pen and paper — except, perhaps, it will look a lot nicer (and save paper). I do have my students use a lot graphic organizers in the classroom, and am including some resources for them in this list, too. I can think of some minor advantages with a couple of the online tools on this list, but not much more. Please help me out if I’m missing something. You might, though, find The Best Tools To Make Simple Graphs Online useful. You might also be interested in The Best Teacher Resources For “Foldables” and The Best & Most Useful Free Student Hand-Outs Available Online – Help Me Find More. Gliffy is another online mindmapping tool. Related. Online Diagram Software to draw Flowcharts, UML & more. Stoodle.

Mural - Mural. GroupZap — Welcome. Collect, Organize, Share. Deekit — Deekit. Online whiteboard for remote teams. Classmint.com - Awesome Study Notes.