I like Linux, and more specifically, Linux Mint. I have been using Linux on my personal laptop as my primary O.S. for about 15 years now and I also installed Linux Mint in old laptops that were “end of life”…
Category: Tools
Random name picker Android app
Do you need a random name picker? Try this Android app!
iFake Text Message: create a fake text message conversation
Well, I am aware that this is a tool that may not be really useful by itself as it just provides a setting to put dialogues in the form of a text message conversation… This is an example for a…
Flippity
I recently found Flippity and now it has become one of my favorite tools. It allows you to create a lot of activities related to vocabulary and definitions. It is based on different Google Spreadsheets templates that you can use…
Visual discrimination activities
These last years I have had several students who had some issues identifying certain letters we are all aware of… Mainly in primary levels some of them find confusing the following patterns: b vs. d, p vs. q… So I decided…
Why I am loving Quizizz and quitting Kahoot as an assessment tool
I started using Kahoot a couple of years ago and I found that, at the beginning, it created an exciting level of engagement in my students as they found challenging to compete against each other to be the quickest student…
Let your students show their thinking using Educreations and Seesaw
Many times, making your students “show their work” is one of the challenges you have to face, specially if you work with 2nd graders… So I am trying to find out if using a technology tool can make this thing…
Ordering Numbers
“Ordering Numbers” is a very simple web page designed to practice this skill online with numbers from 0 to 10,000. Once the “game” has been setup (by selecting the numbers and the ascending or descending order), and after clicking the…
Word challenge
Description Word Challenge is an app meant to help learn 800 high frequency words in English, their pronunciation and spelling. The program is divided into 32 levels, each having 25 words. To practice the 800 words, you can choose between…
Google Slides
Google Slides is the Google App alternative to other Presentation tools such as Microsoft Powerpoint or LibreOffice Impress. You can create your own presentation using Slides or you can import presentations you have already created by uploading them to your…