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Have you ever been embarrassed when you excitedly pull up a YouTube video to share with your students or parents and before you can stop it, an ad comes up? This has certainly happened to me before and in fact, it has probably happened to me in front of each of you. Well, never fear. Now you can purify your YouTube videos with View Pure. Simply copy and paste the YouTube video link into View Pure and it will take the advertisements right out of your video. A simple yet powerful tool to add to your toolbox.
When I was in Indiana last year for their annual library conference, I often heard about this great little book called 101 Practical Ways to Ditch That Textbook by Matt Miller, an Indianian himself. Librarians and tech specialists raved about this book from which I have gained some interesting pieces of information. One of which is how to create digital posters with Google Apps. In this case, students and teachers can ditch the glue sticks, the markers, and the mess. Here's how:
In Google drive, click on New, then click on More. From there, you will see the option for Google Drawings.
Once you click on Google Drawings, you will have a blank canvas awaiting your creative touch. Want to insert images? When you click on Insert, then Images, and Search, images that are licensed by creative commons can be used within your digital poster. In addition, you can embed links to make your poster interactive. Other uses include creating graphic organizers, visuals for book reports, flyers, and storyboards. I also love the idea of using this to crowdsource ideas. Because it's a Google app, it can be shared and edited by those of your choosing. Bring on the creativity!
