Summer break is here or nearly here for many of us. With that break comes time to drink our coffee out of our favorite mugs at home instead of a travel mug at school. I love the feeling of sipping coffee in the warm morning...
1,001 Novels: A Library of America is an ESRI story map developed by Susan Straight. The story map features short reviews of 1,000 American novels. Each novel is geolocated on a map of the United States. The story map is divided into geographic regions. You...
The Internet Archive's USC Optical Sound Effects Library is a collection of hundreds of sound effect recordings created for Hollywood studios in the beginning in the 1930's through the 1980's. The recordings were donated to USC and have now been digitized for playback and download...
Back in February Padlet introduced a new feature that enables you to quickly turn a collection of notes on a Padlet wall into a slideshow. Recently, Padlet added three new features to its slideshow function. The latest Padlet slideshow features include a new slide navigator, a...
A few weeks ago I published directions on how to use Google Takeout to move your most important Google Workspaces assets out of one account to use in another. Late last week a reader asked me about just moving Gmail messages from one account to...
Felt.com is a digital mapping tool that launched late last year and has since impressed me with both its ease of use and its plentiful features. The latest feature added to Felt that I really like is the option to take any of your pictures...
As an elementary school teacher, I partnered with parents and guardians to ensure students completed their assignments on time and that they arrived at school on time. As a middle school teacher, I realized that my students were of an age where they could begin...
With time and practice you might become adept at using the editing functions in your favorite video software. You can also improve your videos without having to learn a bunch of editing tricks. Here are some simple things that we can do to improve our...
Acoustic Atlas is a Montana State University Library project that features an ArcGIS Storymap. The Acoustic Atlas storymap is an audio and visual tour of Montana's four ecosystems. As you scroll through Acoustic Atlas you will see read text and see pictures of the four ecosystems. While...
Good morning from Maine where it feels more like late April than early June. After a few days of temperatures in the 80's (Fahrenheit) I awoke to a damp 47F this morning. By the time that most of you read this I will be riding my...
