Printable Dice with Dots, Text or Images
from Tools for Educators: Create your own custom dice with pictures, text or both images and text. You can make dice with just your text or choose an image category below to make dice with those images. (See below for some ideas on how to use the dice.) Make dice with text only
Crossword Puzzles
Download the plug-in tools you need to use our games and tools, or check to see if you've got the latest version. Learn more Looking for ways to engage your students in online literacy learning? Find more interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals-from organizing their thoughts to learning about language. More Your students can save their work with Student Interactives.
AI Series: What is Predictive Marketing & How Sentiment Unlocks It for You - NetBase
The simplest definition of predictive marketing is fairly obvious – predicting future consumer wants and needs to ensure you’re always delivering and staying ahead of competitors. And here’s a more clinical definition: “Predictive marketing is the strategic use of existing customer datasets to identify patterns and anticipate future customer behaviors, sales trends and marketing outcomes.” But what are those customer datasets?
gsuite.google
Información general Generates a downloadable word cloud, other features include control over number of words, dropping words auto pretty & word tables Use this add-on to quickly assess what your emerging theme is, how to best categorize your document, or if it is someone's else's document - find out the theme of the document without reading it.
Mapping with D3 - Maptime Boston
A friendly introduction Andy Woodruff for Maptime Boston @maptimeBoston | @awoodruff Follow along! maptimeboston.github.io/d3-maptime Or get the code for examples:
Soccer Award Certificate Maker: make personalized soccer awards
. Type over any text field to completely customize the certificate. Erase text from any field you don't want to use. Use the menu on the right to add new text, add a team logo, change the font, increase, or decrease the font size. To see all of the soccer certificate templates, please see the preview page.
Literacy In The Digital Age
Editor’s Note: Teaching Channel has partnered with Student Achievement Partners on a blog series about digital literacy tools and their effective use by educators. The majority of the tools mentioned in this post and the four earlier posts in our series, transform the student experience from passive consumers of information to active creators of content, employing multiple English Language Arts standards and skills along the way. We firmly believe this ought to be the new norm in the modern classroom. Kids have access to information; we must teach them how to navigate a world constantly evolving where content is at their fingertips. The traditional application of ELA isn’t enough for future-ready learners.
PRISM (surveillance program)
Below are a number of slides released by Edward Snowden showing the operation and processes behind the PRISM program. It should be noted that the "FAA" referred to is Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act ("FAA"), and not the Federal Aviation Administration, which is more widely known by the same FAA initialism. Slide showing that much of the world's communications flow through the U.S. Details of information collected via PRISM Slide listing companies and the date that PRISM collection began Slide showing PRISM's tasking process Slide showing the PRISM collection dataflow Slide showing PRISM case numbers Slide showing the REPRISMFISA Web app Slide showing some PRISM targets.
Charrette
A charrette (pronounced [shuh-ret]), often Anglicized to charette or charet and sometimes called a design charrette, is an intense period of design or planning activity. Charrettes in general[edit] The word charrette may refer to any collaborative session in which a group of designers drafts a solution to a design problem.
Data-Driven Documents, Defined
By Scott Murray, author of Interactive Data Visualization for the Web and Assistant Professor of Design at the University of San Francisco. D3, or d3.js, is a magical chunk of JavaScript code that helps you express data visually on the web. D3’s full name is Data-Driven Documents, and it’s so named because it connects data values to document elements, thereby “driving” the document from data. For example, consider a typical scatterplot, with little circles placed in 2D space along the x and y axes. Think of these dots as being “driven” by some underlying data: they are “pushed” into place, based on their corresponding values.
Word Games for the ESL Class
Here are two printable word games for the ESL classroom that help students improve their understanding of parts of speech. It's a variation on classic cloze exercises, except that students need to choose any word from a given part of speech. For example: It was a __________ (Adjective) day outside. Students have such a great time while learning important skills - without thinking too hard about it! Aim: Recognizing Parts of Speech Activity: Fill in the gap story completion
10 Useful Web Tools for Creating Online Quizzes and Polls
February, 2014 Following the visual I posted here a couple of weeks ago featuring the differences between formative and summative assessments, somebody shared with the link to this Listly list that comprises dozens of interesting web tools to create online assessments. I have already reviewed some of the tools mentioned in this list in separate posts here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning but I also found out new tools I did not know about. I am re-sharing the whole list created below and I invite you to spend some time sifting through its content. Enjoy
