35 Awesome Apps that Integrate with Google Classroom Save Pinterest Google Classroom Apps! Did you know that Google Classroom plays well with others? Yep! Google is known for making their applications open to working with third-party applications, and Google Classroom is no exception. Are you using Google Classroom? Celebrities who look alike - INSIDER NBC/Getty Images We all likely have a doppelgänger in the world somewhere. It's not just everyday people who are running into their look-alikes. Celebrities do, too. Amy Adams and Isla Fisher get mistaken for each other all the time. Genius Web Annotator Genius lets you add line-by-line annotations to any page on the Internet Enable annotation on your own site If you’re a publisher, you can install a simple line of javascript to Genius-activate your own site. Try it out: If your site runs on WordPress, make your posts annotatable with our Wordpress Plugin.
Argunet Editor - Argunet Argunet Editor is a free argument map editor for analyzing and visualizing complex debates. You can use it offline and save your debates on your hard-disk. Or you can use it as a client-server application. GIMP Online – rollApp GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor, primarily employed as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. GIMP is available to make detailed image retouching and free-form drawing as well as accomplish image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. In addition GIMP can be used in order to create basic animated images in the GIF format.
Using H5P Content in Canvas “H5P is a free and open-source content collaboration framework based on JavaScript” – Wikipedia This means that it can be used to create rich HTML 5 content that can be used in many web platforms including Canvas. This content can be shared, reused and modified and this all done through a browser with no desktop software required.
Adobe Spark in the Classroom Adobe Spark is partnering with NASA. The 2019 NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC) is asking students to ignite their creativity and thinking using Adobe Spark. See more details below and learn how students can participate. Learn More "About Mee" by Nahveyah (7th grade) "Mix & Match" by Will (12th grade) Using Infographics in Language Classroom Jun June 28, 2013 | 1 Comment Wikipedia defines Information graphics or infographics as graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. They are great for today’s visual learners. OpenStax launches personalized learning tool for college courses David Ruth 713-348-6327david@rice.edu Jade Boyd 713-348-6778jadeboyd@rice.edu OpenStax Tutor Beta available this fall for intro courses in biology, physics, sociology
Finding Free Images for Your Classroom The Internet has made a myriad of material readily available to a vast audience. Along with these seemingly infinite resources has come a lot of confusion about how images and other content published online should be legally recognized, protected or used. As educators, we often struggle in navigating that road. I recently read an amusing but instructive article entitled “PSA: Don’t Let Salami and Google Images Get You In Hot Water.” It tells the story of an eleven-year-old boy who posted an image he found online of Salami on a class blog. Shortly thereafter, the school received a “Cease and desist” letter from the content creator threatening legal action. CN Post - CourseNetworking Make your LMS Social, Global, and Engaging The CN Post is an LTI plug-in that can be easily added to all major LMS (i.e. Moodle, Sakai, Canvas, D2L, Blackboard, etc.) for social discussion, global networking, and engaging learning. Check out how CN Post looks in an LMS course CN Post is a simplified version of the full CN LMS.
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