Field Trip, your guide to the cool, hidden, and unique things in the world around you is now on the iPhone! Field Trip runs in the background on your phone. When you get close to something interesting, it will notify you and if you have a headset or bluetooth connected, it can even read the info to you.
Field Trip can help you learn about everything from local history to the latest and best places to shop, eat, and have fun. You select the local feeds you like and the information pops up on your phone automatically, as you walk next to those places. Click her for more information.

Xnote is a virtual take on geocaching that let kids (and adults) go on simple treasure hunts outdoors for virtual messages. Kids love the excitement of a treasure hunt. They get to experience nature and learn about geography, mapping skills and teamwork while having great fun.
Xnote can be a practical and convenient alternative to regular geocaching for teachers and parents since virtual treasures can be hidden near home or school by just pressing a few buttons. Treasure hunts can also be sent to friends and family as a fun challenge. Click here for more information

Klikaklu is a photo hunt game that uses your phone’s GPS, camera, and advanced image matching technology. It’s a great way to quickly create and play treasure hunts! It has a free version as well as a subscription.
Share hunts privately with friends and family, or leave them in public places for others to find. Lead people to new and interesting spots. Reveal secrets and rewards when they crack your clues.
No geocaching boxes or QR codes are necessary, so you can create hunts in national parks, museums, airport terminals, doctors offices – any place you want to add an element of challenge or mystery, share as special with someone, keep the kids busy, or while away some time.
It’s great for:

• Families – get outside, spice up parties, make boring places adventures!
• Teaching – engage your students with hands-on explorations.
• Gatherings – Bring them alive with a fun interactive activity.
• Groups – host a group hike, bar crawl, or explore your city with friends and family.
• Orientations – show your environment to newcomers in an engaging way.
• Special Friends – send secret messages, share favorite places, reveal gifts.
• Team Building – Unite your team with a fun group activity.

QR Treasure Hunt Generator
Get students using their mobile devices to move and to learn – NO INTERNET CONNECTION NEEDED!

1. Submit! – Input a series of questions and answers. No programming experience needed – just cut and paste from a word processor
2. Create! – Get a QR code for each question. Automatically generated as text files, *no need for web access* to read!
3. Display! – Put the QR codes around your school. Be creative – different sizes, different places
4. Begin! – Students find and answer the questions. The team with the most correct answers in the time available wins. Click here for  more information.

The Save to Google Drive Chrome extension helps you save web content or browser screenshots to your Google Drive.

• Adds a browser action to save the current page.
• Adds a right-click context menu to save hyperlinks and media.
• Configurable through an options page.

This extension allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu. You can save documents, images, and HTML5 audio and video all by right clicking and selecting ‘Save to Google Drive’. You can save the currently viewed page using the ‘Save to Google Drive’ browser action. The directory location and format of saved HTML pages can be controlled with the extension’s options page (Choice of Entire image (default), Visible image, Raw HTML, MHTML, or Google Doc). You can automatically convert Microsoft Office files or comma separated files to Google Docs format. Click here to view a slideshow.

​Here is a free chrome extension that lets you set specific words that you would like to automatically see highlighted in a web page. Very helpful if you are doing research and looking for a specific topic or topics.  When doing your search those words you have set within your multihighlighter will automatically stand out.  Click here to view a tutorial.​

Here is what it can do for you:

• Highlight multiple English words (whole matching).
• Store the highlight words list locally.
• Re-do highlighting automatically when page content changed.

In coming features:

• Add a context menu button, to add selected word on page.
• Shortcuts.
• Phrase support.
• Add a setting/option page, to set whole word matching or not.
• Configurable highlight style.
• Make it faster.