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Xtranormal combines text-to-speech with animation, allowing you to create movies by simply choosing a scene, selecting actors, and typing in a script.

xtra normal is a site that helps you o create and publish animated movies. There is a filtered education site so kids don't access questionable content.

In this video, George Siemens lectures on connectivism and its importance in education. Current education structures do not provide meaningful learning. Connectivism is a way of learning that is interactive, participatory, and under an individual's control. The social learning is a method of "connectedness" that provides deeper connections with learning strengths.

"The formal learning process is irrelevant." One example he gives of this is that we don't know our students well enough to personalize the process to them. He says we force content on them without taking them into consideration. I disagree. Students tell you what they want to learn by declaring a major or signing up for a class. I agree that the system could be better, but he goes a bit too far.

What a great speaker! Siemens' speech is so thought provoking. It is important to know our children before we teach them.

Great speech writing/rehearsing tool for iOS. (Prompster is for Android users.) Recommend for educators and students. Seems like a good tool for mobile learning.

This helpful speech writing tool seems like a perfect fit for iPad classrooms.

IVONA TTS is a great way for struggling readers to get a little boost in their reading. Students can copy and paste words into the text box and hear it come to life.

Grammaropolis is where grammar lives! Songs, books, games, and videos make the parts of speech come alive. Now with fun grammar quizzes!

Ms Brown describes Communities of Practice in her article citing Wenger (who coined the term) in her references. She goes on to describe what communities of practice are and how COP's have changed because of the digital world (Twitter named specifically). I appreciated her list of qualities of a "good" community of practice and her video link of John Amaechi's speech on COP's.

This resource talks about the benefits of using e-Book readers that possess built-In dictionaries, ability to highlight text and text-to-speech note taking so that students can better understand what they are reading.

This app is around $200 and is specifically deigned for younger students with autism. It allows them to communicate through images rather than speech and has had very positive feedback from parents and educators alike, who say the students want to say more but find it hard to.