Deb Norton Tech

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week. Here is my gift to you -- Try it, it’s fun! Screencastify, the popular screen recording extension, has a new look and some changes .   Have you heard about the Emoji Scavenger Hunt from Google ?  It is Google’s newest Artificial Intelligence experiment.  It works best on a phone, but can be used on a laptop with a webcam.  Scan this QR code to load the game on your phone and good luck! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Curricular Connection TwistedWave is a browser-based audio editor. You only need a web browser to access it, and you can use it to record or edit any audio file.  It is free to use and allows a person to record up to 5 minutes. This site is very similar to Audacity, except there is no download needed, just a browser. And it works great on a Chromebook! Happy Friday Ya'll! Enjoy your weekend!

Recently, some educators that I work with, showed interested in having their students use Google Tour Builder to create a tour of locations from a historical time period. We could do this on desktops, but the teachers really want the students to be able to use their Chromebooks, which is not possible with Google Tour Builder since it uses the Google Earth download. So I found two alternatives that will allow students to build a "tour" of locations on a map and also include text, images and even video. Alternative 1: My Maps : With My Maps , students can add a marker, and then add an image to go with the marker. Students can also draw lines between different markers. One of the nice features of My Maps is that you can add layers. To display a "tour" the students can turn the layers on or off to show more or less at a time. For this tool, the students would use the extension, Screencastify to record a narrative to go with the "tour...

Having just returned from ISTE in Atlanta, GA, I'm happy to share some of the great tools and sites that I encountered while attending sessions and having conversations with with other attendees. Because there is so much to share, this is a two part series. Here is the Chat with Deb video part 2: Here is Part 2 of my presentation: Click here  for all Chat with Deb videos Thank you to Intel's Teachers Engage Community for sponsoring this Chat with Deb