Archive for the 'General' Category
BiblioNasium is a safe site designed for children ages 6-13 to promote the enjoyment of reading. Through BiblioNasium students can discuss their favorite books, log reading hours and create a virtual bookshelf for organizing what they’ve read and would like to read. Teachers can track, manage and recommend student book lists.
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ABCYa! Animate is a tool for creating short animations. The animations are made using the tools available through the site. Students can create up to 100 frames before downloading their animation. One drawback is that there doesn’t seem to be any way to save an unfinished project to work on at a later time so […]
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Boolify is a visual search engine that I found out about from Kristen Novotny. The site is designed to help students learn Boolean searching through a drag-and-drop, visual interface. To use Boolify, start by dragging the green Word or Phrase rectangle into the workspace and enter a search topic. Then drag the other rectangles as […]
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Rewordify is a free website that helps users read difficult passages. To use Rewordify, the user just copies and pastes the passage into the box on the Rewordify website, then clicks on the Rewordify text button. What appears on the screen is the same passage with simpler words. The easiest way to see how this […]
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Phase.it is a very user-friendly site that allows you to upload a photo and speech bubbles to it. The site does not require a login and you can save and download the picture when it’s done. Phase.it also offers you the option to choose a random photo rather than upload an image. The best part […]
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Lino is a site that allows you to create and share sticky notes. A (free) registration is required to create a board, but once a board is made sticky notes can be added to it by users without an account, making it a great tool to use with a class. Sticky notes can be customized […]
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Big Huge Labs is a site that I found out about from Mariela Siegert. It provides a number of free tools that can be used with images to create posters, magazine covers, trading cards, jigsaw puzzles and much more. The tools are very easy to use and no registration or login is required to create […]
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Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice is a TED video that was recommended to me by Mark Stamatakos. In this video, Schwartz talks about how the over-growing number of choices that we have can make us feel paralyzed when making decisions. While we all like to have many options available to us, we sometimes feel […]
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Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action is a TED talk that I found inspiring. In this presentation, Sinek talks about how communicating with data and information to communicate doesn’t usually inspire people. His theory is that good leaders start with the question “Why?”. Sinek makes his point using examples from Apple, Martin Luther King, […]
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Lingro is an amazing tool that helps readers easily look up word definitions when reading a web page. It works like this — you find a page that you want to read, copy the URL, then paste it in the box at the top of the Lingro page. Click on the arrow, and you will […]
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