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Weekly Tech Tips 11 April 2021

 Dear Friends,


Happy Sunday. Only two months left. I find that these last weeks always fly by even faster than the usual hectic pace of life. There is a lot of work to be done as we wrap up the year. I hope you find something handy in this week's edition of …

Weekly Tech Tips


Lately I have been starting off this newsletter with a shortcut. I do not have a keyboard shortcut for you today, but instead a Chrome extension that saves a lot of time and steps when it comes to clipping, annotating, and sharing screenshots with others. Even on a Mac this is a multistep process that can require taking the screenshot, saving it, opening it, editing it, saving it again and then attaching it to an email or message. Snipply was supposedly created by Google engineers for internal use and has been made public recently. It is a very helpful lightweight extension for quickly sharing screenshots. Thanks go to Mr Raphael from Android Intelligence for this good news. Install the extension onto Chrome from the Chrome Store and you are ready to start taking screenshots that can be immediately edited and linked to. 

Here is a test shot I made.

https://snippyly.com/?q=GmwONdbEYwMqBNpeVtJl&EDIT=wsBkT6bSJV42lQgYPFyL

Note that I made this screenshot editable. I could have also made it view only. 

It works kind of like Imugr if you are familiar with that site (my favorite site for memes), but it’s just for screenshots. If you are just taking a clip that does not need to be edited then CTRL+CMD+f4 is much faster, but if you want to mark the screenshot up or otherwise edit it, this extension is very useful. Really good for showing your students or colleagues exactly what you want to share from any page on the web.


This Week’s Apps and Resources


Math Whiteboard

This kind of blew my mind. It’s like math Voodoo. Be careful about sharing this one with your students because it can do their homework for them. It takes handwriting and recognizes it as mathematical expressions and equations, AND then, it solves them! AND graphs them all on the same page. You really have to see this to believe it. Even then you might not believe it. 

Introductory Video (rather long @ 33 min, but pretty amazing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTWvMlya_cY&t=41s

No fee, no barriers, no sign in. Truly amazing.

https://www.mathwhiteboard.com/


JotForm for custom made certifications and more. I came across this after attending an online conference recently. They sent me a link to one of these and it made a really nice certificate of attendance for me. Thought it could be useful for making certs and awards for students.

https://www.jotform.com/myforms/


Don’t forget that the Weekly Tech Tips are now all online for you to reference if you ever want to go back and look up something that caught your eye but can’t remember.

https://drwsweeklytechtips.blogspot.com/


Have a great week everybody. Almost there.

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