Posted in 1 on Nov 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Twitter has emerged as one of the world’s most widely used social networking services. Much of Twitter’s appeal lies in its simplicity, and in the way it fosters a sense of immediacy. Since “tweets” are limited to 140 characters, a huge bonus is that communication on Twitter must be brief and to the point; [...]
Posted in 1 on Nov 9th, 2009 No Comments »
After a long blogging silence, I’m back with a free resource that I’m especially excited about. I’ve discovered an effective free option for turning scanned text into digital text that can then be used with a wide range of study tools, including text-to-speech. All previous attempts to create useful digital text from the PDF files [...]
Posted in 1 on Oct 14th, 2009 3 Comments »
I just came across a video I made a couple of years ago about CLiCk,Speak. I’d forgotten all about it. That has prompted me to repeat a post I wrote about CLiCk,Speak in June of 2008. The resolution isn’t great, but I think the video does a pretty good job of demonstrating CLiCk,Speak in action [...]
Posted in 1 on Oct 4th, 2009 3 Comments »
When he set it up, I doubt if Gary Bishop could have foreseen the phenomenal growth that Tar Heel Reader would achieve. This amazing online collection of accessible “books for beginning readers of all ages” has grown to 5805 titles! Beautifully illustrated with images from Flickr, these books are truly engaging for a wide [...]
Posted in 1 on Sep 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
I wrote about PhotoPeach last month. Since then, I’ve very much enjoyed “playing” with PhotoPeach as I’ve created several “stories” with my own photos. I especially like PhotoPeach for multimedia creativity because it is so easy to learn and use and because text captions are such a straightfoward option. These two factors make PhotoPeach an [...]
