Google Maps Street View imagery provides a good way to show students the world without leaving your classroom. Over the last few years Google has added Street View imagery of many notable culturally significant places throughout the world. Street View Special Collections allows you to find that imagery in one place.
Applications for Education
Browsing Google Maps Street View imagery is one of my favorite ways for students to virtually
explore the world. Browsing Street View imagery provides a prospective
that that they generally can't get by flipping through printed images or looking
at flat maps.
This evening Peter Vogel shared a screenshot of a phishing attempt that he had received in the form of an email attempting to look like a Google Documents shared document. If you receive one like the one that Peter shared, don't complete the request for information. This is a good time to remind your friends, students, and colleagues that may be new to using Google Drive that if something doesn't look right, it probably isn't it.
While we're on the topic of phishing scams, Common Craft offers a great explanation of what they are, what to look for, and how to avoid falling for a phishing scam.
Evernote Clearly is a free browser extension available for Firefox and for Chrome. Clearly can strips the sidebar content from any webpage that you're viewing. You can
send the cleaned-up version directly to your Evernote account for easy
reading whenever you open your Evernote account. You can print the
cleaned-up article from your Evernote account or directly from your web browser.
Applications for Education Evernote Clearly is an excellent extension for teachers to use before printing articles to distribute to their students to read in class. Stripping the sidebar content not only saves ink and paper it also makes it also creates a distraction-free reading experience for your students. Evernote Clearly can also be used to highlight sections of an article. And if you have students that need webpages read to them, Clearly has a text to speech capability that your students can use.
Yesterday, I shared a list of 43 educational alternatives to YouTube. At the suggestion of quite a few people, I put all of those sites into a custom search engine and I have embedded it into this page. Give it a try the next time that you're looking for educational videos that are not hosted on YouTube.
Take a look at the Google Slides presentation below to learn how to create your own custom search engine.
