LibriVox is a collection of audio books of public domain works created by volunteers. The language used in public domain works can be pretty difficult for students to understand, having the audiobook available may make the materials more accessible. Plus, you could have your students create audio books and donate them to LibriVox.
Back at the OETC conference in February I was taking pictures of a presenter’s slides when I noticed this icon: Pressing it opened up a whole new way for me to take notes with my phone. Live Text I have been using the iOS Live Text feature for awhile. It allows you to copy text…
Source: ‎Duolingo ABC – Learn to Read on the App Store Duolingo is known for it’s line of language learning apps, and now they are getting into the learning to read arena. Due to the numerous school closures, Duolingo is making the reading app available early. The app has no ads or in-app purchases and is…
One of the greatest productivity tools that I use is a clipboard manager. A clipboard manager is a piece of software that allows you to store multiple items in your clipboard at once. Each manager gives you options on how long to keep items and what to do with items such as passwords. With the…
Unshorten.link is a website and Chrome extension that provides you protection against malicious shortened links by allowing you to unshorten urls. What is link shortening Link shortening is a way to take a very long URL and make it shorter so it’s easier to share. You’ve probably seen a link that starts with bit.ly or…
Source: Create emoji masterpieces with any image using this fun web tool – The Verge Sometimes a web tool comes across your desk that you didn’t know you needed, and the Emoji Mosaic site is one of those tools. Feed it an image, and it will recreate that image using emojis. I really don’t know…
Source: Free online timeline maker Timegraphics is an online tool that can be used to create timelines. It is free to use to create public timelines, and accepts Google log-ins. If you upgrade to premium, then you can have collaborators working on a timeline and make timelines private. The timelines can be exported in various formats…