Source: Teacher Appreciation — Vooks
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Vooks are animated picture books that read to the student, along with added sound effects and music. What’s nice about Vooks is the TV aspect. The service is supported for use on TVs through a Roku, Chromecast, or Apple TV. With this, the whole family can watch and take part.
Coda is an online document and app creator that is free. Apps created with Coda look like a regular document, but with interactive features. To get an idea on what is possible, check out the templates page. A Google account is required to sign in and use Coda. Coda documents can be shared with others…
Create talking images with Blabberize.com. Here’s a fun little site that came across my browsing this past week. Blabberize.com allows you to upload a photo, and then animate the mouth with audio you record or have recorded. Unfortunately, you have to create an account to save your work, which may be a problem for younger students. Once…
Source: Bongo Cat Have you had rock star dreams? Bongo Cat won’t get you there, but it’s still fun! The site doesn’t do much, it lets you select an instrument and play that instrument. Bongo Cat would be really good for a general music class, simple tools to create music. Or, if you don’t have…
Source: Home – MissionUS For students, MissionUS is an opportunity to live a bit of US history, while teachers will have access to a wide range of support materials for each mission. The site asks you to read through the materials and do the mission before assigning the site as work. The site does require…
Axiom is a Chrome application that can organize your digital media plus annotate and collaborate with them. The service can be used to collect documents, including multimedia, for various uses, such as collecting homework or brainstorming ideas by marking up the documents or multimedia. There is a free level which allows you to store 10…
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…