Create talking images with Blabberize
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…
Quickly capture audio with CaptureCast
I found CaptureCast to be a worth screencasting tool for Chrome and Chromebooks, and I have discovered a new use for it. Since you have full control of what CaptureCast captures, you can use it as a quick webcam recorder or as a plain audio recorder. To capture audio, click on the CaptureCast icon in your…
Join.me is a dead simple way to host an online meeting
Last night I was troubleshooting with a friend over the phone, when I wanted to share my screen with him. I went through the usual suspects: Google Hangouts, Chrome Remote Desktop, Teamviewer, etc. when I remembered Join.me. A quick 15MB download later and I was broadcasting my screen. Although I had to download an app…
Sharing: The Case for Making Audiobooks Part of Curriculum | Getting Smart
Audiobooks are a valid listening component, providing rich exposure to sophisticated spoken words in school and at home. We’ve seen evidence of this in the work we do at Tales2go, but wanted to be more rigorous in our approach and have data to support our argument. We contracted with WestEd, a leading educational research nonprofit,…