Source: Introducing Pandora Stories! — AMP Playbook
Pandora Stories is a way to build podcasts that include songs from the Pandora library. Pandora handles the licensing, you supply the commentary. I’m waiting to be approved, so I can’t see what the interface looks like, but this could be something that musically centered students could get excited about.
Microsoft is adding an audio transcription feature into Word for the web today. Transcribe in Word will appear in the online version of Word for Microsoft 365 subscribers, providing an easy way to automatically transcribe audio. Microsoft is supporting existing audio files, or even the ability to record conversations directly within Word for the web…
Versal is an online service that is free for teachers to create interactive lessons.. I still miss HyperStudio, but Versal could replace it for a lot of situations. Once the lesson is created, Versal integrates with SCORM compliant learning managements systems, including Google Classroom and Schoology. The lessons can consist of multimedia and text, with the…
Source: per.quest | Play an Article Here’s a neat little site. After you give the site the address of a web page, you can either listen to the page content or listen while reading the page. Unfortunately, the site doesn’t highlight the text as it reads, but it works pretty well. No accounts are needed…
Source: Fake Tweet Generator – Generate convincing fake tweet images The Fake Tweet Generator lets you create graphics of Tweets. They look really, really, good, as you can see above. Fake tweets can be used in student projects to emphasis information from famous people or places. I would not recommend using it to create tweets…
Title: Create differentiated texts with OS X’s Summarize Service Author: mr.rcollins Date: 2015-07-15 17:47 Slug: create-differentiated-texts-with-os-x-s-summarize-service Category: Apps Tags: summarize,differentiation Although there are a few services that allow you to adjust the reading level of text, there is also a service built in to Apple’s OS X called Summarize. In OS X, a Service is…
Source: Greenshot Everyone has their favorite screenshot tool, and more pop up every day. Greenshot came up in my searches for a screenshot tool for Windows and it is currently my favorite screenshot tool. Greenshot only works on Windows and Mac, and is only free on Windows. If you want to run it on the Mac…