Rewordify
Rewordify
Rewordify is a great web tool that you can use with your students and kids to help them read difficult passages. Rewordify simplifies complex passages and render them reader-friendly. Students can paste in difficult sentences, paragraphs, or whole chapters and then click on "Rewordify text". They will then get a paraphrased version of their text with a simpler and easier vocabulary.The reworded words are highlighted which means that students can click on them to hear and learn the origin harder words. Rewordify also allows you to obtain a simplified version of any web page. Just paste in the URL of the webpage you want to read in the yellow box and hit 'Rewordify'. Watch the video below to learn more about how Rewordify works.
Rewordify is a great web tool that you can use with your students and kids to help them read difficult passages. Rewordify simplifies complex passages and render them reader-friendly. Students can paste in difficult sentences, paragraphs, or whole chapters and then click on "Rewordify text". They will then get a paraphrased version of their text with a simpler and easier vocabulary.The reworded words are highlighted which means that students can click on them to hear and learn the origin harder words. Rewordify also allows you to obtain a simplified version of any web page. Just paste in the URL of the webpage you want to read in the yellow box and hit 'Rewordify'. Watch the video below to learn more about how Rewordify works.
information taken from: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/11/excellent-tool-to-enhance-students.html
NearPod
Nearpod – iPad teachers
know that Nearpod is synonymous with engaging, interactive
presentations. In fact, some would say they wrote the book on it.
However, it is no longer just for the iPad because you can use it on
Android, Nooks, Chromebooks and Macs or PCs via the web. Top features
include the ability to add quiz tools, videos, photo slideshows, drawing
tools, a PDF viewer and even a live Twitter stream.
CodeAcademy
Visit CodeAcademy here! To start coding!
Other sites:
Tynker
Scratch
Code HS
Alice
Kandu
Dash
Touch Develop
Code.org
Editey
Snap
iPad Coding Aps
Other sites:
Tynker
Scratch
Code HS
Alice
Kandu
Dash
Touch Develop
Code.org
Editey
Snap
iPad Coding Aps
Search Cube
search-cube is a visual search engine that presents web search
results in a unique, three-dimensional cube interface. It shows previews
of up to ninety-six websites, videos and images.
TodaysMeet
TodaysMeet: Talk. Listen.
TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.
Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.
TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.
Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.
Claymation Avatar
Clay Yourself is a site that lets
users create an claymation style avatar. The site was created by
Hotels.com to allow their customers to create a commercial as part of a
contest and promotion that they were running. However, the site is
still running and is a great and simple way to create an avatar that can
be placed on a Facebook page and can also be downloaded and used on a
classroom blog or website.
SlideRocket
SlideRocket is a hosted web app designed to take presentations to the next level with graphical prowess and multimedia integration. It is a great transition for anyone familiar with PowerPoint, but who is tired of dull presentations in over used templates.
Although the content of your presentation is of course the most important part, small visual improvements can have a big effect on audience engagement and participation.
Some of the more impressive features of SlideRocket are enhanced text effects, slick slide transitions, media integration (audio, video, animation) and graphic effects. You can see in the below example just how smooth and beautiful slide transitions are and how much more interactive it looks than a standard PowerPoint.
There are a number of real benefits in using a web based Presentation tool such as SlideRocket. Your presentations are always hosted online so there is no need to backup or save files to disk. Sharing can be done directly through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter or by mailing a direct link to your slides. A final benefit and in our mind the most exciting feature of SlideRocket is it’s ability to measure your slides effectiveness. You can retrieve statistics on who has watched your presentations and see comments left by your audience online.
www.sliderocket.com
visual.ly
Infographics are popping up everywhere. They are a great way to get a
message across by visualizing data rather than bombarding a reader with
vast amounts of text. The same principles apply to presenting and this
makes Infographics a fantastic way to convey your data without putting
the room to sleep.
Visual.ly is a site dedicated to Infographics and data
visualizations. They host a huge amount of quality Infographics on a
wide variety of topics. You can choose to embed or re-use pre-made
graphics in your own presentations or in the not too distant future the
site will be offering tools to help you create your own.
Embed an Infographic into your blog or presentation.
http://visual.ly/
Embed an Infographic into your blog or presentation.
http://visual.ly/
Alltop
The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, “What’s happening?” in “all the topics” that interest you. You may wonder how Alltop is different from a search engine. A search engine is good to answer a question like, “How many people live in China?” However, it has a much harder time answering the question, “What’s happening in China?” That’s the kind of question that they answer.
They do this by collecting the headlines of the latest stories from the best sites and blogs that cover a topic. They group these collections — “aggregations” — into individual web pages. Then they display the five most recent headlines of the information sources as well as their first paragraph. Our topics run from adoption to zoologywith photography, food, science, religion, celebrities, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, Macintosh, and hundreds of other subjects along the way.
You can think of Alltop as the “online magazine rack” of the web. They have subscribed to thousands of sources to provide “aggregation without aggravation.” To be clear, Alltop pages are starting points—they are not destinations per se. Ultimately, their goal is to enhance your online reading by displaying stories from sources that you’re already visiting plus helping you discover sources that you didn’t know existed.
Joongel
FindHow
FindHow, the How-To search engine, focuses on indexing only high-quality How-To's, typically from well-known, recognized brand names or individuals. Many of these sources (often companies, government entities, or educational institutions) have other motives for providing information besides pure profits, and most have trusted, off-line brand name reputations to protect - which encourages them to focus on providing trustworthy and high-quality information.
TinEye
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.
TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching.
TinEye regularly crawls the web for new images, and they also accept contributions of complete online image collections. To date, TinEye has indexed 2,090,717,922 images from the web to help you find what you're looking for.
Addictomatic: Inhale the Web
Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It's the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics.
Personalize
After you search, you can personalize your results dashboard by moving around the source boxes. When you're done, bookmark the page and keep coming back to your personalized results dashboard for that search.
Browse the News
Their news pages provide the latest headlines on topics such as entertainment, politics, shopping, sports and more. You get all the feeds from the best sources in each category. And like your search results dashboard, you can personalize the layout of the headline boxes, delete ones you don't like an
Key in a topic and the top stories from several social media sites appear! I keyed in Social Media. Visit Addictomatic!
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