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Message your class! A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. FREE. Usual text messaging rates apply, so let your subscribers know that you are not responsible for their text messaging plans or any overages before you invite them to sign up to receive your alerts.

"Celly is an educational cloud service built around text messaging. We want your phone to be a device for learning while keeping it fun and a little competitive. Our first service is simple group text messaging. You can easily create channels for your classmates, your friends, and your family. Our text channels can have any number of members, and we have some unique privacy and messaging options. "

A TextArc is a visual represention of a text-the entire text (twice!) on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning.

A great resource for cellphones in education LG Text Ed program brings together an advisory council of leading child behavior and health experts who examine important issues related to tweens, teens, and mobile phone use.

Good lord, Beth O'Marr demo'd this site and I had a language-gasm! Check this out!!

Drop in a relatively small text (800 words or less), and this little wonder creates graphic organizers, finds vocabulary, builds questions, does pronounciation, prefixes, suffixes.

"Kelly lost her beloved son A.J. to a texting while driving accident that was 100 percent preventable. She wants you to hear her story so that you'll make your car a No Phone Zone. Take the pledge now!"

Probably worth 5 mins of you time. Wow!

Wow! Would you like to feel grounded? give 5min to this this video and you won't be sorry.

Information on helping students use the sequencing text structure in reading and writing. * General Information on Sequencing * Lesson Plans on Sequencing * Sequencing Teacher Tools"

" A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. Free. "

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Enter text and create mp3 file.

Strip Generator allows anyone, even people who claim they can't draw, to create a good-looking black and white comic strip. To create a comic strip all you need to do is select the number of frames you want then drag characters and objects into those frames. The menus for characters and objects are fairly extensive. Once you've selected a character or object you can adjust the size to fit your scene. Adding text is a simple matter of selecting a speech bubble and typing text. When you're happy with your comic strip you can save it online, print it, or embed it into your blog.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Nice blog post explanation: http://cliotech.blogspot.com/2008/09/useful-app-for-teachers.html

Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it.

Convert text to audio

Use a cell phone with no data plan to retrieve information from a website in the form of a text message.

Use a cell phone with no data plan to retrieve information from a website in the form of a text message.

"Copy / Paste text in CarryoutText to convert it to a MP3 file that can be downloaded and used in your favorite MP3 Player. "