FTT - Trick or Treats!

 Trick or Treat!

@LisaBerghoff/@MrKimDHS

Well, it's 10:00 pm on Halloween night and my household just survived what seemed like an eternity of Halloween-related activities. Sugar-loaded toddlers are finally asleep and perhaps it's time for some tech treats for you! Here is a hastily put-together list of some of my favorite websites of all time for educational fun. If you find at least one of these websites useful, it'll be worth the price of admission. So enjoy!

• Absurd Trolley Problems: A fan favorite in economics class - the internet's take on the classic Trolley Problem thought experiment. Incentives matter and the rest is commentary. This website gives you increasingly complicated/absurd ethical dilemmas to solve as you progress through the site. 
  
  
• Radio Garden: Ever thought you'd be interested in what radio stations were playing all across the globe at any given point in time? Radio Garden gives you instant access to what's on the radio anywhere on Earth, from Faridabad, India to Rio Branco Brazil. It's shocking how many stations out there are blasting English Pop!
  
  
• TypeLit.io: Need to improve your typing skills AND want to get caught up on some classic literature? TypeLit records your words per minute, accuracy, and progress as you type through any part of a variety of classic books. You can even import your own book by signing up. This is a personal favorite that I never seem to have enough time for.
  
  
• Ventusky: This incredible website gives you beautiful, updated meteorological data visualizations anywhere on Earth. Temperature, wind, clouds, precipitation, and more. 
  
  
• Musclewiki.com: Pick a muscle, any muscle. Click on any major muscle on the human body and this site will immediately give you a variety of featured exercises and stretches with detailed instructions, GIFs, and videos specific to that muscle organized by difficulty. 
  
  
•  QuickDraw: A fun interaction with Google's A.I. neural network! You are given 20 seconds to draw a random object to see if Google's powerful A.I. can guess what you're doodling before time runs out!
  
  
• Onelook.com: Have you ever had a word on the tip of your tongue but couldn't quite think of the word? This "reverse-dictionary" lets you type in a description of a word and the program A.I. offers a suitable list of potential answers.
  
  
• SuperCook: This helpful website gives you recipes for dinner based on what available ingredients you already have on hand. Tens of thousands of recipes on hand with specific instructions!
  
  
• Pie Chart Maker: That's it. That's the description. This site helps you make great looking Pie Chart Graphs. Interactive ones at that. Downloadable PNGs, JPEGs, and SVG files. Values, Colors, 
  
  
• UnSplash: Need a picture of something? High quality something? Unsplash has millions of high resolution pictures of almost anything you can think of. Test them out!
  
  
• FreeLearningList: A recent addition to this list, this site is a resource aggregator designed to organize and score the best education-related resources available free on the internet. This non-profit sought to help parents and guardians fill in the gaps for their children's education during the pandemic.

That's a lot. The internet is a fascinating place. I hope you were able to find some utility in at least one of the websites above. Do you have a personal favorite to share? Comment below!