Vocalyze is a free service that reads the content of popular websites to you. You can subscribe to popular sites across twelve different categories.
Applications for Education
Vocalyze makes news and other content available to students with vision impairments that prevent them from reading online. Vocalyze could also be used to support struggling readers as you use current events stories in your classroom.
"Newman's prompts
Finding out why students make mistakes
The Australian educator Anne Newman (1977) suggested five significant prompts to help determine where errors may occur in students attempts to solve written problems. She asked students the following questions as they attempted problems."
"Evernote is many things to many people because it's so powerful. But for the same reason, Evernote's purpose is vague enough that it can be hard to get started with it. First, you have to figure out what it can do for you. Here's a guide to how to think about Evernote, so you can get better at using it."
Over 60,000 pieces of free educational clipart are available for school projects from Clipart ETC. Select a category of illustrations below to get started. You may wish to bookmark this page so you can easily return to our collection of clipart, drawings, artwork, pictures, and other illustrations.
"Dumpr is where you create marvellous photos to share with your friends"
This site has lots of great tools and toys to edit and use images and photos in fun ways. Make your photo into fine art or sketch.
The Secret Annex lets students travel back in time to Anne Frank's hiding place. Students can explore Anne's house in a super cool 3D interactive environment. The Secret Annex gives students an authentic feel for the place where Anne wrote her diary while listening to stories of everyone who lived in the hiding place. In addition to the 3D hiding place, students can review historical archive material about the war and view unique TV broadcasts where memories are shared.
