18 November 2006
audible.com | Download books, magazines, newspapers and radio shows
Subscription service (various plans). Get mp3 files for your pc, ipod, mp3 player, or burn to cd to listen to your favorite books.
10 November 2006
1-Click Answers
Alt-Click in Windows or (Mac OSx Command+Option+G) on any word in any program on your screen for an instant, pop-up AnswerTip that won't interrupt your work. For vocabulary words, instant definitions and real voice buttons to hear the word aloud.
VoyCabulary.com - Online web dictionary & thesaurus word linking lookup reference tool.
VoyCabulary makes the words on any webpage into links so you can look them up in a dictionary or other word-reference-site of your choice, by simply clicking on the words.
09 November 2006
PowerTalk - automatic speech for PowerPoint presentations
by 2 othersPowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.
You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic 'Text To Speech' programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images.
Speech is provided by the standard synthesised computer voices that are provided with Windows.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN WIKI ADVENTURE 1
Online PowerPoint Presentation on using Wikis in the classroom. An excellent guide.
05 November 2006
Pre-Cal 40S Wiki Solutions Manual -
Great use of a wiki for a high school pre-calculus class. Note the guidelines for "constructive modification". This idea good be extended across the curriculum. What a way to differentiate!
02 November 2006
The Write Weblog
(via)Another example where the qualities of writing are explicitly discussed and the sole purpose of the student blogs is to improve this skill.
k12 Online Conference » Blog Archive » Week in the Classroom”Second Nature-Extending dialogue in the blogosphere”
This site corresponds to the BLOG WRITE link
It’s second nature for us and our students to engage others in dialogue f2f. Commenting has great potential for extending learning and deepening understanding through meaningful dialogue in the blogosphere. Through an examination of powerful and significant comments, and exploration of suggestions for nurturing and guiding comments, meaningful online dialogue can become second nature to us and our students too.
Mr. K's Podcast Emporium
Student audio and video podcasts about events around the school. There is an emphasis on sports....
Blog Write
This blog is interesting as the teacher explicitly discusses the six traits of writing when composing blog posts. She gives guidelines for making comments as well. Take a look at the students' own blogs with their posts on this topic. Take Derrick' Documents (left column) for example. He has a great post where he links each of the six traits to a classmate's blog as an exemplary user of the trait. Check it out!
P.S. OHMYGOODNESS...thought this was a high school blog! These are 5th graders!
Zachary's Weblog: An Unforgettable Day
(via)High school blog...
Note all the comments and the handling of one inappropriate comment by a classmate.
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