Tech on Tap - What did you miss?

With AR & VR, teachers are no longer limited by the space of the classroom. Google Expeditions allows a teacher to guide students through collections of 360° scenes and 3D objects, pointing out interesting sites and artifacts along the way. Presented by Sheila Yap Explain Everything is a presentation app that can integrate content from many sources, enabling teachers and students to use it to create lessons, tutorials, and more. Users can import photos, PDF files, movies, websites, and more from iTunes, Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, and other sources to use in a presentation or use it like an interactive whiteboard. Presented by Samuel "Jake" Breedlove Matt Johnson shared ways he uses Twitter to network with other international educators and share the amazing things happening at SFS with a global community. Check out Matt's slides and this free Cultural Guide to Twitter for educators. Want more? Watch this to learn about the importance of a school hashtag. Presented by Matt Johnson (@int_educator) Burstio converts burst photos taken with the built-in Camera app into videos or GIFs. Featured on Lifehacker, CNET, Product Hunt and other websites. Link to a video showing how the app works. Presented by David Beaty Life 360: Part location, part communication, all awesome. Life360 keeps millions of families and close friends connected, no matter what chaos life throws their way. Link to a video showing how the app works. Presented by David Beaty Effortlessly build engaging instructional content right Google Slides with Pear Deck Add-on. Think: bell ringers, checks for understanding, exit tickets, and more. Simply drop in one of these templates for instant engagement and watch your class transform. Presented by Heather Breedlove Arduino is an open source platform that students and teachers can use in and out of the classroom. It is easy enough to be used by all ages with enough flexibility to make sure all ages are being challenged and stretched. It teaches students to tinker and collaborate. Presented by Peter Yap Chatterpix Kids  let's you take or import a picture, draw a line over the individual's mouth, record 30 seconds of audio. Your photo becomes a talking photo. This would be a really fun exit ticket, you could provide images of historical characters for students to give voice to, or use it as a perspectives activity. Hey ES teachers, Chatterpix works well with Seesaw!  Path On allows you to draw lines on an image and write words that will follow the lines that you drew. This is a great tool for concrete poetry, for analyzing characters, for conveying a message.  Presented by Jill Zappia Instant Heart Rate : Measure accurately your pulse and heart beat zone with your heart rate & health monitor after sleeping or during workouts & training. Instant Heart Rate doesn't require heart rate straps. Monitor blood circulation with accurate heart health monitor (similar to ECG or EKG). Functions similarly to pulse oximeters, detecting change in your finger to provide accurate heart beat measurements. Link to a video showing how the app works. Presented by David Beaty BadgeU is a simple badging system that is easy to setup and manage. Create your own badges and distribute them  to your students. You can issue badges with levels of difficulty so you can use them as a points system as well. To find out more or to get the SFS BadgeU package which is already to go, contact Alan.  Presented by Alan Hoskin ThingLink is the simple way to make online images interactive. Create graphics and annotate with links that open up multimedia making content and activities engaging. It is also easy for students to work collaboratively. Examples Presented by Elizabeth Mcgarroch-Slack  Hyperspektiv is a powerful video & photo effects app. Create music videos, make your Instagram look super cool, use for VJ visuals, or take next level selfies. Link to a video showing how the app works. Presented by David Beaty Ryan Kuhl explained his process for keeping his Mac clutter free. Daisy Disk is a disk analyzer tool for OS X that visualizes hard disk usage and allows to free up hard disk space. If you've updated to Mojave, managing your storage space is built in to the storage portion under About My Mac. Here are other Mojave features you should check out.  Wakelet is a curation tool. Use it to share articles, videos, images, tweets and other great content with one link. Save them for later and create collections, called wakes, at any time. It's also a Chrome extension! With the press of a button you can pull all of your open tabs into your wake. Example Wake Jo Bigwood