Take 5 for Tech
AI Chrome Extensions & Phone Apps: AI Series #5 (2.14.24)
Brisk Teaching is a helpful AI-based Chrome Extension. It boasts several noteworthy features. (Video Description) It:
- acts as an identifier of AI in Google Docs & Google Classroom,
- helps create the first generation of curricular topics while including necessary standards,
- alters text to different reading levels as needed, and
- gives the start of feedback on student assignments.
Wisdolia is a tool that helps students or you synthesize content quickly and create flash cards for studying.
Flash card content can come from:
- Google Slide Decks
- PDFs
- YouTube Videos
- Webpages
- Papers
- Notes, Textbooks
- Study Guides
The student answers the flash card and Wisdolia tells the student if they're on the right track and how to better, more-fully answer the question. Students can save the flash cards to different subject "decks" for repeated and future studying.
Free users can create 15 sets of flashcards free a month. It's also a web based app too.
RevisionHistory.com, not to be confused for Google's Revision History, is a great tool. It allows teachers to get a better picture of a student's writing process
It tells teachers:
- the amount of active writing time,
- the number of times they have participated in writing sessions,
- the frequency and extent of the copy & pasting, and
- the number of deletions.
It also gives a video of the Doc as it's written.
- Expedites the workflow by transferring content from one format or source to another.
- Free version has a limit of 30 information transfers a month.
- It can transfer data from a multitude of sources like YouTube, websites, newsletters, etc. into Docs or Slides.
- It houses AI templates.
- Magical is activated by typing// or another custom double key stroke.
Otter.AI: (Chrome Extension; iPhone; iPad; Android)
- Transcribe virtual meetings & classes in live time.
- Creates summaries of meetings
- Preschedule note taking by connecting your work Gmail calendar
- Helps people with dyslexia
- Works with Google Meets, Zooms & Microsoft Teams
- Works even if your internet connection drops
- Effective even in noisy environments
- Automatically captions the slides and other presented materials