Car Talk

Car Talk Puzzlers as Math Challenges

In the winter one of my weekend rituals is to listen to Car Talk while running errands in town. One of Car Talk's weekly features is the Car Talk Puzzler. The Puzzler is usually a math puzzler although some are language-based riddles too. As I was listening last week it hit me that the Car Talk Puzzlers could make great little classroom activities to get students thinking about math and language in a format that is a little different than standard textbook examples. Click here to access sixteen years of Puzzlers and their answers.

Spreaker

Spreaker - Create and Broadcast Live Podcasts

Spreaker is a service for creating podcasts and broadcasting them to the world as live or recorded productions. If you want to simultaneously broadcast live and record your podcast for re-release later, you can do that too. The Spreaker virtual mixing board provides tools for mixing in buffer music and editing voices.


Applications for Education
Spreaker could be a useful service if you want students to record podcasts, but you don't have quality recording software installed on your school's computers. Spreaker has free Android and iOS apps that your students can use to record too.

Free Icons and Clipart

Icon Bug - Free Icons and Clip Art

Icon Bug is a collection of more than 10,000 icons and pieces of clip art that can be downloaded and re-used for free. The Icon Bug search engine allows you to search by keyword, browse popular icon categories, and refine searches according to icon size. Registered users can upload their own icons to contribute to the gallery.

Present.me

Present.me - Sync Audio and Video to Your Slideshows

Present.me is a handy service for recording video and or audio to accompany your slides. Present.me allows you to sync your recorded audio and video to your slides then publish everything as one complete package. Here's how it works; upload a set of slides to your Present.me account, then use your webcam to record a video of yourself talking about those slides. Your video and slides will appear side-by-side when you have finished recording. If you don't want to record a video, you can simply record audio only.

Present.me accepts a large variety of presentation file types. And if you sign-in with your Google account, you can import presentations to Present.me from your Google Drive account.

New Fonts in Google Drive (Google Docs)

According to their latest product blog post Google Docs, which is now a part of Google Drive, now has more than 450 fonts available to all users. To access all of these new fonts select "add fonts" from the bottom of the font selection menu that you've always used. Selecting "add fonts" will open  up a new menu in which you can mix and match fonts to your heart's content.

Download Sound Effects from Sound Clips

Download Sound Effects from Sound Clips

SoundCli.ps is a gallery of free sounds. SoundCli.ps is a community-powered site on which you can upload sounds to share and download sounds shared by others. I was able to download sounds without registering on the site. To upload sounds you do need to register on the site.

Here is the link:

 http://soundcli.ps/

10 Must Have Bookmarklets For Teachers

Visit the link below for a list of the "10 Must Have Bookmarklets For Teachers:

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/04/10-must-have-bookmarklets-for-teachers.html