Three Cool Chrome Extensions!

I was checking out another blog called edtechteacher and thought you might be interested in three Google Chrome Extensions they mentioned!  

Screencastify

 

Screencastify is a Chrome extension that allows students and teachers to create screencasts directly in the Chrome browser.  A screencast is a recording of the user’s screen with the user narrating the actions they are completing on the screen.  

EquatIO

EquatIO is a new tool from Texthelp that provides teachers and students new and better ways to integrate math and science into their Google environments. EquatIO gives students and teachers an ability to make mathtype  digital, so students are able to better make their math reasoning visible using Google Chrome.

Share to Classroom
  

Share to Classroom is an extremely helpful tool for teachers using Google Classroom with their students. The extension connects with the teacher and students’ classes in Google Classroom. From a teacher perspective, the Share to Classroom extension allows teachers to share information from websites directly to their classes in Google Classroom. For example, when a teacher comes across a webpage that they want to add as an assignment, question, or announcement, teachers can use the extension to share these resources directly to a class.

These reviews and video links were taken from the edtechteacher blog.  The link to their blog is: http://edtechteacher.org/blog/

Scanning At The Tips of Your Fingers With CamScanner

https://camscanner-pdf-creator.en.uptodown.com/android

Donna Alaimo just tipped me off to CamScanner - a free PDF Creator that lets you convert any printed document to a PDF file.

The only thing you have to do is take a photo of the document in question, using the photo tool that is part of CamScanner - PDF Creator. Of course, the photo needs to be somewhat centered and well-lit. The app will then process the photo in question, and in a matter of seconds it will have converted it to a PDF document. 

Once you have the PDF document saved to your device's memory, you can work with it just like you would with any other file of this type. In addition, before saving the document, you can apply different filters to it to see if it looks better; depending on the quality of light in the photo, you might be able to obtain better results with a filter.  You can Find the app on the Google or Apple Store.  For more information about how to use the app follow the following link. https://www.camscanner.com/

Verizon streamed Super Bowl LII in Virtual Reality over 5G

The Virtual Sky Box!

A crowd of more than 67,000 people watched the Philadelphia Eagles trounce the New England Patriots last Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, while around 103 million viewers across the country did the same on their television sets. At the same time, a small group of Verizon employees in New York City were viewing the game in a different way: through VR. And they were able to do so entirely over a 5G connection.

It was all part of an ambitious 5G stress test that Verizon quietly ran during Super Bowl LII, and according to the company, it was a success. "This latest demonstration at Super Bowl LII and in New York City is another example of how we're pushing 5G to exploit never-before-imagined use cases and applications," said Sanyogita Shamsunder, Verizon's executive director of 5G ecosystems and innovation.

To read more of the article from engadget.com by Nicole Lee click the link below.


https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/10/verizon-streamed-super-bowl-lii-in-vr-over-5g/

Super Bowl 52: How the NFL and US Bank Stadium are ready to make digital history

At Super Bowl LII, the Patriots vs. Eagles contest could break a record for the largest data usage ever during an event, as fans stream live video and upload massive quantities of photos to social apps.

It's not just the brutally cold weather that could make history in Minneapolis during Super Bowl 52 on Sunday. The NFL expects football fans to surpass all previous data usage during the big game, with key moments such as the kickoff between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots, and Justin Timberlake's halftime show to result in huge amounts of photo and video uploads to social media. 

Click the link below to see the full story from TechRepublic's Smart Cities newsletter. - By Teena Maddox | February 1, 2018, 9:24 AM PST

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/super-bowl-52-how-the-nfl-and-us-bank-stadium-are-ready-to-make-digital-history



      

My Fellow Americans

A great activity with the State of the Union happening next Tuesday.  If you are a math teacher you can buddy up with an English and Social Studies to share the results. 

The link below brings you to a great interdisciplinary lesson dealing with math, social studies and English. Students should know how to substitute values into an expression or equation to evaluate the result. Much of the work in this lesson revolves around examining how those values affect the result.

"Once a year, the President of the United States stands in front of Congress and the American people to deliver the State of the Union Address. Throughout history, there have been some amazing speeches, and some less-than-amazing ones. But have the annual addresses gotten…dumber?

In this lesson, students examine the Flesch-Kincaid formula for determining the grade level of a piece of writing (which has been used to make the claim above). Then, they apply it to presidential addresses over time and decide whether claims of declining intelligence are fair."

Click here to go to Mathalicious for the full activity!  -
http://www.mathalicious.com/lessons/my-fellow-americans

Google Extensions vs Web Apps vs Add-ons

This is a great blog post by Eric Curts from June 2016.  Even though it's from a year and a half ago, it really is a nice break down of the differences between Google Extensions, Add-ons, and Web Apps.  Click the link below to get to his full blog post. 

http://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/06/extensions-webapps-addons.html

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