International Ed Tech Guy

Ever need just a snippet of a speech, song or communication?  Youtube MP3 Converter is AWESOME!  Simply capture the link from the Youtube Video you want.  Copy the link and then paste it into the site: http://www.youtube-mp3.org/.  Very quickly you will get options to download the audio from the video that you had in mp3 format.  This is…

​ Make sure you aren’t wasting time on the internet!  Try  WasteNo Time.  Since many of you Mac users have moved away from Chrome I thought I would offer an extension for Safari.  This extension will allow you to completely block sites if they are distracting you.  You can also set a quota so that you…

​ Exams are fast upon us (already started for some) and a good highlighter is a critical tool.  This week I am recommending an Extension to Firefox called Wired Marker.  It does a great job allowing the user to highlight text on a webpage – better yet it creates a ‘bookmark’ within the page so that…

I recently read a great article from the TeachThought  blog by Terry Heick on ‘Failing Forward: 21 Ideas to Help Students Keep their Momentum’  Many of these you will know others you might want to try.  Number 2 on the list is one of my favorites – ‘Use Project-Based Learning’ – Technology can be a huge part of engaging students…

​ Many of you know about Creative Commons for royalty free photos however this can be a cumbersome process.  Introducing PhotoPin!  This is an easily searchable database of Creative Commons Licensed images for free.   I did some quick searching and it provides the licensing information and allows for multiple size downloads.  This is a very…

I am always looking for ways to use Google Apps in the classroom when I came across this Google Sheet created by Aggie Salter.  I generally like to recommend a single resource, but this Google Sheet was just too good not to share the whole thing!  The sheet is constantly being updated by Techies with   Google…

  Possibly the coolest resource I have used!  A new way to locate and share resources – as well as formative test is to use Blendspace.com!  You can locate (by topic!) resources add them to a cool board and then create a super quick quiz.  Then you can maintain these ‘boards’ for later on.  It looks…

This week I thought I would remind you about using your Google Drive to save EVERYTHING!  With your school Google Apps account your Google Drive is UNLIMITED.  Now you can upload everything you want, share everything  and have access to it in the cloud.  Added to this you can install the Google Drive App and use…

​ I’ve been using Buzzfeed for a while for entertainment (if you ever need a laugh check it out!). However this weekend I did some searching and it turns out there are some really great solutions submitted.  Today I suggest two things: 1. Check out Buzzfeed.  2.  Check out the ‘18 Mac Hacks that will make a MacBook…

It is always a good thing when a teacher suggests a tool, suggested by their work with a consultant.  Thanks Brad and Penny Kittle!  Today I recommend Draftback.  This is a Chrome extension (it only works in Google Chrome).  It takes a Google Doc and allows for ‘playback’ of revisions.  This is a great tool for…