Guest post by Kurt Labbe of Silverado High School:
Googly things:
- Highlighter Tool - add-on for Google Docs. Fully functional highlighter tool.
- Slidescarnival.com Presentation templates for Google Slides – Free to use, excellent, good looking templates.
- All Questions Required - Chrome Add-on that lets you set or unset all the question items in a form as required. Flips all the switches at one time!
Coolest things:
- Google Tone uses a Chrome plug-in to send a URL to student machines via sound. It plays a sound and then the mike on student’s device “hears” the tone and automatically opens the link.
Useful things:
- Google Photo Scan – Use your device’s camera to take a photo of a damaged paper photo/poster and it cleans up damaged portions.
- Google Translate - Works with the camera on your device. Point it at foreign text and it translates it live on your screen. For example, point it at a Chinese menu written in Chinese and it will translate the items on the menu to English.
Funnest things:
- Quickdraw.withgoogle.com – Google is using artificial intelligence to track how we visually communicate. Kind of like online Pictionary that records everyone’s responses and learns from them,
- Smartypins.withgoogle.com – Test your geography skills in google maps. I saw this a few years back but forgot about it. So much fun!
Mind Blowing things:
- Quantum computing is coming.
- Adaptive Textbooks that use “affective computing technologies” which curate delivery of information by sensing the emotional state of a user via the camera, mike and previous use.
- Wireless electricity is being developed where a wireless power transmission can safely charges devices anywhere within a room.
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