Using Sound of Text site for language learning
Sound of Text allows you to enter up to 100 characters of text in one of 44 languages. Once you click Submit, the site generates audio of the word or phrase.
I have used Google Translate on my phone in the past to communicate with an ELL student, but this tool is for a different use case. Noah spells out several uses for the tool in the article.
Source: Controls for Youtube – Chrome Web Store Along with millions of others, I like to watch YouTube videos to learn and to be inspired. Sometimes I miss things in the video when I’m in the process of taking notes and I would like to quickly rewind. Unfortunately, YouTube doesn’t give us a 15 second…
Source: Prism – Visual Bookmarks I’m always looking for ways to share collections of bookmarks, and Prism is a good looking way to do that. The site reminds me a lot of Pinterest. You can share boards, and invite collaborators to a board. The site saves an autoupdating thumbnail of the website, which is a…
Source: Remove Video Background – Unscreen Unscreen can remove the background of short video clips(less than 5 seconds). It works pretty well. I took a video from Coverr and here is the result: Not bad.
Source: Share to Classroom – Chrome Web Store It’s been over four years since I introduced the Share to Classroom Google Chrome extension, so I figured it’s time to revisit! Once installed, the Share to Classroom allows you to push a website out to students or create classwork in Google Classroom from the current website….
Tech Tools That Have Transformed Learning With Dyslexia Fifth-grade teacher Kyle Redford remembers with emotion the day she unwittingly put an iPad in the hands of one of her 10-year-old dyslexic students, a day she called “a complete game changer.” I loved this paragraph from the article: But in order for teachers to really embrace…
Source: Sir Links-a-Lot – Chrome Web Store Here’s a neat extension with an even better name. After adding Sir Links-a-Lot to Google Chrome, you can easily create links for Google Docs/Sheets/Slides documents for others to preview or copy. I’ve written before on how to modify the address of a Google Docs/Sheets/Slides document, Sir Links-a-Lot is…