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“A brief slideshow showing how to use Wordle to make word clouds.”
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CarryoutText – A Simple Text to Speech Converter that lets you download audio MP3 file
“Import text from a document or Copy / Paste text to convert it to a MP3 file that can be downloaded and used in your favorite MP3 Player. “
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Nice lessons/activities for elementary Guidance
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We believe today’s students have tremendous potential, are interested in making connections between their academic study and careers, and deserve widely accessible career information.
Who are we?Our World Interactive is a not-for profit web and film project jointly produced by WHYY (the Philadelphia and Delaware public broadcasting affiliate) and GlenDevon Group (a private company), Life Science Career Alliance (an industry and education partnership) and the Chester County Intermediate Unit (an educational service agency). .
WHAT We offerEXPLORE YOUR FUTURE is an interactive website for job and career exploration targeted to teenagers and young adults in middle school through college and the mentors who advise them.
OUR WORLD is a film series highlighting a broad spectrum of careers within one or more industry clusters.
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“For a web-based learning to be truly effective it must be interactive. This means that it is not just a reformatted canned lesson of printed worksheets placed on the web. The web-based activity is inquiry-based and incorporates the full features available on the web – interactivity between computer and student. The learning activity must engage student critical thinking skills by using the scientific inquiry process.”
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“The use of this interactive wireless technology is ideal for stimulating student involvement using both interactive whiteboards and for one computer classrooms. “
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LIFE : Endangered Species Map : Discovery Channel
Nice virtual tour map to show the world’s endangered species. Click each spot and get text and images about each species.
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Animation virtual Studio – Aniboom online
“A virtual animation studio partnering with animators from around the world to create, high quality 3d, 2d and flash cartoon animations. Aniboom cultivates animated content by leveraging the web providing online animation opportunities such as animated competitions and free online animation software.”
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misterteacher.com – SMARTBoard Mini-Movies & Student Activities
“Home of SMARTBoard Mini-Movies – Flash animations that teachers can download and use on their interactive whiteboards!”
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
My name is Christie Odom. I am in Dr. Strange’s EDM 310 class at South Alabama. I have been reading through your blog for the past couple of weeks and I really like all of the ideas you have. I also absolutely love that your blog has so many websites and links on technology and education!
It’s so crazy to me that there are ways to turn your text into audio. Also I really enjoyed reading through your activities and lessons. Thanks for posting such a helpful blog for future teachers like me!