Instructional Technology | Innovation Specialist | Retired June 2022
You’ve found a good YouTube video to share with your students but you’re concerned about the distractions with ads, comments, and suggestive videos that follow. Here is a technique that will give you the video and only the video.
See for yourself that it really works. Here’s an example.
I have been asked many times, how can I make my pdf into a fillable form? Or, I have this worksheet that I want to scan and have my students digitally enter in their answers. How can I do that easily?
Well, Laura Bresko, a former K-12 school teacher has developed a free service for teachers that does that and even more. How about having those interactive, fillable forms be gradable? Yes, you heard right. These converted files can be graded for you. Imagine that! And all for free, too. Even after COVID.
Go to: TeacherMade.com and sign up with a Google account. Laura is currently working on having her service integrate with Google Classroom, therefore it is suggested you use a Google account to sign up. In 2021, Laura will likely be offering full integrations with LMS’s like Canvas, Schoology, itslearning, etc. Click features to compare TeacherMade to Google Slides.
Thanks Mel for sharing. This is a game changer!
Looking for a reputable resource for kids ages 2-7? Khan Academy for Kids offers both adaptive learning paths and independent learning with no ads or subscriptions. Teachers sign up and set up their classes for distance learning. This resource is worth a look especially now during our virtual start to this school year. Teachers get weekly planners, printables, daily circle time, and other tools to make learning fun and engaging.
StoryWeaver is a digital repository of multilingual stories of thousands of richly illustrated, open-sourced children’s stories in mother tongue languages.
It is also a first-of-its-kind platform that provides easy-to-use tools to create, adapt, and translate new stories for children. It’s the ideal place for parents, educators, writers, translators, and illustrators to come together to weave new stories for children and help to create a pathway to nurture the next generation of readers!
Read, create, translate, download, and store stories offline. Story Weaver is open-sourced under the creative commons 4.0 license. Go ahead… browse the library for thousands of books at: https://storyweaver.org.in/
How about a handy dandy Chrome extension that converts webpages from text to speech in the form of a podcast?
If you are a multi-tasker, then this tool could be for you. Listen to your favorite blog, articles of interest, or research on the web you just don’t have time to read. Instead, play your podcast while taking that walk, driving to work, doing chores or gardening.
install the free Podcastle extension on your Chrome browser, then simply click on its green icon in the top right-hand corner to start listening to the textual content of the webpages you open.