Monthly Archives: May 2013
Kindle Lending Library Books
Have amazon prime but cannot search lending library books? I think amazon secretly makes it tough to do. Anyway, here is a link that takes you directly to all of them: Amazon Lending Library Book List
Xbox 1
So MS announced their new xbox today dubbed xbox 1. Thus far it seems pretty cool. Nothing I didnt expect though so no surprises. Seems like a great upgrade to the xbox 360. Actually this round of consoles all feel like upgrades rather than whole new systems.
Google for education
Google is now taking applications for educators to use google products in their classes. This mostly deals with app development but it allows for creativity as well. I would encourage all teachers interested in technology to sign up. Here is all the info you need:
http://www.google.com/edu/android/
http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/edu/index.html
World of Classcraft
This is a really awesome website. The website guides you through gamifying your classroom. It shows you how to turn your classroom into a game, similar to dungeons and dragons, world of warcraft, etc. I think this is a very unique idea and I would love to see more classrooms implementing similar type strategies. While I do not expect a class to implement everything from this site, I believe there are a lot of good ideas and that taking one or two could really help students and make the classroom a fun place to learn.
http://worldofclasscraft.com/en/
Here is a video about it:
