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9 Good Online Math Tutoring Websites for Kids and Students
When children are in kindergarten and first grade, the math curriculum focuses on number
How Are Click Here Made
Are you wondering “How are click here made?” You see “Click Here” in many websites or emails. Here are the steps for how to create your own hyperlinks so people can click here.
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PhET Virtual Workshops for Teachers
PhET is one of my top resource recommendations for math and science teachers. PhET offers more than one hundred online, interactive simulations for teaching concepts in mathematics, physics, chemistry, earth science, and biology. Those simulations can be used on PhET’s website and they can be embedded into your website for your students to use.
If you’re a math or science teacher who wants to take a deep dive into how to best utilize PhET’s interactive simulations in your classroom, you may want to work through […]
Indie VR Gem ‘COMPOUND’ Gets 1.0 Release & Updated Demo, Headed to Quest Later This Year
Nearly four years after its early access debut, indie VR gem COMPOUND has launched version 1.0 on PC VR, including an updated demo for anyone to try. The game is expected to come to Quest as well later this year.
Though little-known, Compound is the 6th best-rated VR game according to Steam (with an ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ 97% rating) and the 12th best-rated according to Steam250 (which uses its own algorithm to determine rankings).
Created by one-man indie developer Bevan “NotDead” McKechnie, Compound was originally released in early access on Steam in 2018 and has seen slow but steady development ever since. The game is a roguelite with a […]
Best Background Removal Tools for Creating Transparent Logos
BeTimeful Hides Social Media Distractions
BeTimeful is a browser extension that is designed to hide social media distractions during your working hours. There are similar browser extensions that block your access to social media sites during working hours. What makes BeTimeful different is that instead of entirely blocking your access to social media sites, BeTimeful hides all distracting content like “related,” “recommended,” and “trending,” content. What that means is you can post on social media with BeTimeful installed, but you can can’t see anything other than your own updates.
When you install BeTimeful you can set working hours for […]
Ubisoft Cancels ‘Splinter Cell VR’, ‘Ghost Recon Frontline’ & 2 Unannounced Titles
Ubisoft reveal during its Q1 2022 earnings call that it’s cancelling a number of titles in the pipeline, including Splinter Cell VR.
The company says it’s stopped development on Splinter Cell VR, Ghost Recon Frontline, and two unannounced titles.
Ubisoft says the cancellations come as a cost-savings response to an “uncertain economic environment.”
The company announced back at Facebook Connect in late 2020 that both the Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell franchises were getting Meta platform exclusives. The company was still hiring for its Splinter Cell VR team in January 2021, with a specific position suggesting the game would […]
What is Knight Lab Projects and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks
Knight Lab Projects offers ways to tell digital stories in new and innovative forms.
Search Strategies Students Need to Know
The next webinar in my Practical Ed Tech summer series is Search Strategies Students Need to Know. This is the most popular webinar that I host every year and I’m hosting it next Wednesday at 11am ET. I’ve updated it with new activities you can do to help your students get beyond the first page of search results.
If you have ever had a student say, “Google has nothing on this,” this webinar is for you!
In the webinar you’ll learn how to get your students to look beyond the […]
New Footage Shows ‘Red Matter 2’ Pushing the Limits of Quest 2 Graphics
In its announcement of Red Matter 2 earlier this year, developer Vertical Robot made the ambitious claim that it would deliver the “best graphics on mobile VR to date.” And now a new video shows the studio backing up its claim with some evidence.
While the Quest 2 library certainly has some great looking games, most have targeted a low-poly art style to match the headset’s limited processing power. Games aiming for a ‘realistic’ art style have a much harder time delivering the little details like lighting, reflections, shadows, and particles that add a sense of realism.
With the release on Red […]
Delete Multiple Google Calendars At Once
How to delete multiple google calendars at once! Created by Alice Keeler the Add-on DelCal quickly allows you to delete or unsubscribe from multiple Google Calendars.
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‘Moss: Book II’ Review – A Refined & Satisfying Sequel That Sticks With What Works
A whopping four years after its opening chapter, Moss: Book II is finally here to continue the story of Quill, a tiny adventurer destined for an epic journey. While the game doesn’t think too far outside the box compared to the original Moss, developer Polyarc has refined the best parts of the game to deliver a satisfying direct continuation of Quill’s story.
Quill Book II Details:
Available On: PSVR, Quest 2
Release Date: March 31st, 2022 (PSVR), July 21st, 2022 (Quest 2)
Price: $40
Developer: Polyarc Games
Reviewed On: PSVR (PS5), Quest 2
Update (July 21st, 2022): Moss: Book II is now available on […]
Arts, Culture, and Geography Games to Share in Google Classroom
One of Larry Ferlazzo’s recent blog posts about Ideas That Changed the World prompted me to spend time playing around with some of the games on the Google Arts & Culture site this morning.
Play with Arts & Culture offers more than a dozen interactive games for students to play to test their knowledge and to learn about the connections between art, culture, and geography. The collection of games includes things like jigsaw puzzles to reassemble famous works of art, timeline-based games about cultural events, crosswords, online coloring […]
‘Space Explorers’ Celebrates the Moon Landing with First Spacewalk Captured in Cinematic VR
In celebration of the historic Moon landing, which took place on July 20th, 1969, Felix & Paul Studios and TIME released the latest installment of Space Explorers, a VR docuseries that lets you experience the final frontier from both inside and outside the International Space Station (ISS).
Called Expand, the new episode in the series lets you join along with the ISS crew as they prepare to close the hatch behind them for the last time as a year-long mission comes to an end.
Much like back on Earth, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a monkey wrench into the works […]
Best Navigation Apps for People with Visual Impairment
Pictures as Math Problem Prompts
A couple of days ago I read one of Terry Freedman’s latest Substack articles. The article is titled A Conversation I Had Which I Still Don’t Understand. It’s a short dialogue between Terry and the representative of a cab company who can’t explain why there’s a price difference for two journeys of the same length.
Reading Terry’s story reminded me of a Flickr group that Danny Nicholson created more than a decade ago. That group is called Bad Maths. The Bad Maths Flickr group contains lots of examples of bad […]
Why Silver Bullet Solutions Persist in Education
The quick-fix solutions promised by silver bullet interventions can distract from the more localized and complicated solutions schools really need, say experts.
Best Apps for Individuals Who Are Blind or Have Visual Impairment
1. TapTapSee
Provide Free Tutoring with Paper
Paper provides 1:1 virtual tutoring at no cost to students and their families.
A Great Place to Find Free Sound Effects
This morning I hosted a webinar about creating your own apps in your classroom. In one of the demonstrations that I gave I created an app that played a little dog barking noise when a person tapped “I’m a dog person” on the screen. The sound effect that I used came from one of my favorite sources of free media for classroom projects, Pixabay.
Pixabay is best known for its library of free images. It also has libraries of free b-roll videos, music, and sound effects that you can download and reuse for free.
In […]
6 Great Android Video Making and Editing Apps for Teachers and Students
Google to Publicly Test AR Prototypes Starting in August
Google announced that the company will be conducting real world tests of its early AR prototypes starting next month.
The company says in a blog post that it plans to to test AR prototypes in the real world as a way to “better understand how these devices can help people in their everyday lives.”
Some of the key areas Google is emphasizing are things like real-time translation and AR turn-by-turn navigation.
“We’ll begin small-scale testing in public settings with AR prototypes worn by a few dozen Googlers and select trusted testers,” the company says. “These prototypes will include in-lens displays, […]
How to Move Bookmarks Between Chrome Profiles
I was recently contacted by a teacher who was leaving her current school district and wanted to know what would happen to all of the bookmarks she had stored in her Chrome profile. Her Chrome profile was tied to her school-issued Google account which was going to be closed when she left the school.
What is Pixton and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks
Pixton is an easy to use comic book creator tool designed for use by students.
7 Ways to Sound Out-of-Touch at Your School District
School district leaders must use updated language and engage in modern personnel practices to continue operating effectively