by brholland | Feb 22, 2014 | What I'm Reading
CruxLight Install this Chrome Extension (or Safari/Firefox bookmarklet) and let it distill the web. Cruxlight highlights key passages and helps to focus online reading. tags: reading summary annotation highlighter web2.0 Making Worksheets and PDFs Typeable Using...
by brholland | Feb 15, 2014 | What I'm Reading
Hemingway Use this web-based tool as a virtual writing tutor. Copy & paste your passage and it analyzes it in terms of the complexity of sentences, use of passive/active voice, as well as the number of words or phrases to simplify. Though not fool-proof, it does...
by brholland | Feb 8, 2014 | What I'm Reading
Using Your Kindle Tablet App and Chrome ‘Send to Kindle’ Extension to Read Web Articles Great post tied to reading with mobile devices. tags: reading ebooks mobile byod kindle Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are...
by brholland | Feb 1, 2014 | What I'm Reading
Dedoose Cross platform data analysis tool tags: data analytics Bulk QR Code Generator Poetry iPad Workflow Lisa Johnson (@TechChef4U) walks through a poetry unit that leverages the best of technology to meet desired learning objectives to demonstrate prior knowledge,...
by brholland | Jan 27, 2014 | All Topics, Future Learning
Think back 20 years. Pay phones still worked, and only doctors carried pagers. Laptops weighed as much as bowling balls, and few of us had Internet access. In fact, much of what we now consider commonplace — Google, email, WiFi, texting — was not even...