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Convert your articles to podcasts instantly

Convert your articles to podcasts instantly | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"In this blog post, I will mention how to convert your articles or blog posts (consisting text) to podcasts instantly. For this you have to download the app ‘Playpost’ from Play store or App store depending on whether you use android or iOS based smart phone..."

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Free Technology for Teachers: Voicepods - Automatically turn text into voice recordings 

Free Technology for Teachers: Voicepods - Automatically turn text into voice recordings  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Voicepods is a neat service that will create voice recordings based on the text that you write. Voicepods offers eight voices in which ..."

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Your smartphone could soon translate your thoughts into text

Your smartphone could soon translate your thoughts into text | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"A new system developed by a team of researchers from Japan’s Toyohashi University of Technology can read people’s minds using brainwaves ..."

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Make text larger and other useful iPhone accessibility features

Make text larger and other useful iPhone accessibility features | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Did you know your iPhone's accessibility features are legendary? ..."

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Free Technology for Teachers: Annotation Studio - Annotate shared documents with text, video, and images

Free Technology for Teachers: Annotation Studio - Annotate shared documents with text, video, and images | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

Annotation Studio is a free document editing tool that I learned about a few weeks ago on Larry Ferlazzo's blog. This afternoon I finally gave it a try. The best way to describe what Annotation Studio offers is to think of it as Google Docs commenting if Google Docs supported videos and pictures in comments.

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Five sites that make any text look interesting

Five sites that make any text look interesting | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Make text look fun. You don't need to be an artist as these easy web tools make boring text look downright fascinating ..."

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19 Free Text To Speech tools for Educators

19 Free Text To Speech tools for Educators | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Would you like to relax your students’ tired eyes?  Is it sounds good to convert any written text such as Microsoft Word into spoken words? What about running a PowerPoint presentation and have a narration of the text on your slides?..."


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Ken Morrison's curator insight, April 22, 2013 1:08 AM

I am very happy with Mac's built-in text to speech program. Google Chrome has a wonderful extension as well which always learns without updates.  Here are 19 others that people recommend.

Louise Robinson-Lay's curator insight, April 26, 2013 5:37 AM

Text to speech tools.

Jordi Castells's curator insight, April 28, 2013 3:17 PM

Useful for enyone and specially in education and content design!

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Six good photo annotating tools

Six good photo annotating tools | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"In today’s selection, we curated for you some useful apps and web tools to use to add text to pictures and create classroom posters ..."

  1. Picfont
  2. Phrase.it
  3. Typic
  4. Fotor Photo Text
  5. Quick - Add text to photos fast
  6. AddText
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Five good speech to text extensions for teachers

Five good speech to text extensions for teachers | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Speech to text technologies allow you to transcribe your speech into text in a couple of clicks. Most of the established platforms integrate this kind of technology ..."

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Free Technology for Teachers: ABCD Wordie analyzes text and creates vocabulary lists

Free Technology for Teachers: ABCD Wordie analyzes text and creates vocabulary lists | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"ABCD Wordie is a handy tool for evaluating the level of the vocabulary in a passage of text. To use ABCD Wordie you simply paste a chunk of text into the ABCD Wordie site and then choose one of nine levels that describe the reading skills of your students ..."

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Share text and images | Tech Learning

Share text and images | Tech Learning | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"If you are looking for an easy and a quick way to share your text, embed videos and your pictures online with others, then join me as I take a look at: Just Paste It ..."

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Not just scribbles: How tots start learning text is symbolic | PBS NewsHour

Not just scribbles: How tots start learning text is symbolic | PBS NewsHour | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Celebrate your child's scribbles ..."

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The Psychology of Text

The Psychology of Text | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The written word. The primary source through which we share our knowledge. From ancient religious texts and history books, to learning of our friend’s adventures on Facebook. It is this marvelous medium that allows us to express emotions, share thoughts and tell stories. It has done for centuries..."

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