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karen sipe

WordTalk - A free text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word - 0 views

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    A free windows text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictornary and a text-to-mp3 converter. Wordtalk: A call scotland website
Anthony Angelini

PDE Conference Webcasts - 0 views

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    Pennsylvania Dept of Ed. archives speeches from annual conferences by experts. The archives include the video coverage, PowerPoints, and transcripts. The archives date back several years, so teachers have instant access to a number of experts on relevant topics (2012 - grading + assessment)
karen sipe

Home - Dial2Do - Use your voice to text, email and more while you drive. - 0 views

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    Can be used by students who are visually impaired so they can send speech to text emails, blog posts, tweets, reminders, posts on google calendar, etc.
karen sipe

Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles - 0 views

shared by karen sipe on 25 Jul 11 - Cached
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    "turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."
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    Joy Weikdert shared this site. Very cool!
karen sipe

Genii - 0 views

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    VocabGenii is a free online vocabulary building game. Each round is only 90 seconds, and you can play anytime, anywhere you have Internet access.
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    This was addicting. There are a variety of vocab games you can play. I like the one where you are given a type of speech and a definition and you have to unscramble the words from those two clues. You have to create an account for this one. When you want to log off at the top of the play screen you will see a door icon and that is how you log out.
karen sipe

Game-Based Learning Units for the Everyday Teacher | Edutopia - 1 views

  • She also gives tips about using the game model (2) in the classroom. James Paul Gee (3) has long been a champion for game-based learning in speeches, blogs, and books. Quest to Learn (4),
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      Looks like some good tips may be available in this article.
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    "Game-based learning (GBL) is getting a lot press. It is an innovative practice that is working to engage kids in learning important 21st century skills and content. "
karen sipe

The Bill of Rights Institute - 0 views

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    Bill of Rights Institute Resources and lessons.
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    The Bill of Rights Institute has released a new game, Life Without the Bill of Rights? This free click-and explor activity asks students to consider how life would change without some of our most cherished freedoms. Life Without the Bill of Rights? invites studetns to understand the significance of their constitutionally protected rihts, including freedom of religion, speech, and press; freedom from unreasonable search and seizure; and the rights of private property. Other free resources include an interactive module that allows studetns to "travel through time" to converse with the Founding Fathers and report on the Constitutional Convention.
Pat Kennedy

Inaugural Words 1789 - Present - 1 views

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    Website - A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses. The most-used words in each address appear in the interactive chart below, sized by number of uses. Words highlighted in yellow were used significantly more in this inaugural address than average.
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