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Picnik makers have a whole swag of visually appealing tools to help make words look great.

Apple announced a new iBooks Author App on Thursday that makes creating an Apple ebook a drag-and-drop process. Using the app, which was announced at the same time as a new textbook experience for iPad, users can drag a Word file into a book creation space. The app automatically determines the best way to lay out the book and creates appropriate sections and headers. Users can then drag and resize images within the text and add definitions, photo galleries, movies Keynote presentations and 3D objects.

Cute, mix of language and tech

sweet, text to voice qr code, add instructions to a qr code or an explanation of what to do. Limited to 150 characters so mini tweet it!

This is Nuances new free digital note taking for your iPad (only iPad) that captures hand written notes, typed text, images, web content and audio. PaperPort Notes even allows you to take advantage of the Dragon Dictates voice recognition software to produce your ideas and notes simply by speaking. Wi-Fi connectivity is needed for the voice recognition and transferring documents to function.

Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music.

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The software, created in Australia by the Northern Territory government, local software developers and Microsoft, is an avatar-based animation tool allowing users to design animations in minutes. Adopting a multi-sensory approach through the integration of real voice, computer generated voice, written text, images, video and Microsoft PowerPoint® presentations, users can quickly and easily create or customise presentations that accurately reflect the cultural, lingual and social attributes of target audiences.

a personal wall to present your ideas on.

Are you searching for a way to share documents, presentations, slideshows, or a series of photos or images with your students? Then Voice Thread is the free Web 2.0 tool for you and your students (teachers can register for a free education account). Voice Thread allows you and your students to add audio, video, and text as part of conversations concerning science or math content. Comments can be added using a pre-recorded audio file, microphone, call from a phone, or webcam and microphone. A Voice Thread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. This is great when your class is collaborating on a project with students in another time zone or other locations around the world.

This site is for K-8 classroom teachers who are interested in helping children to read and write information, both print and electronic. Visual literacy helps children to learn to read - and to enjoy reading. Examples of visual texts include diagrams, maps, tables, time lines and storyboard.

Free teacher guides to lots of books All Sorts of Things (Grades K-2) Here Alone in the Desert (Grades 6-8) Here Animal Clues (Grades K-2) Here Body Maps (Grades 3-5) Here The Cat on the Chimney (Grades 3-5) Here Crazy Weather (Grades 3-5) Here Cut and Join (Grades K-2) Here Fins and Feathers (Grades K-2) Here Habitats (Grades K-2) Here How Many Eyes? (Grades K-2) Here The Paper Skyscraper (Grades K-5) Here Sharks (Grades 3-5) Here Skeleton (Grades K-2) Here Small Worlds (Grades 3-5) Here What Did You Eat Today? (Grades K-2) Here What Do They Eat? (Grades K-2) Here You Are Here (Grades K-2) Here

6 word memoir, do with Grade 4? use images of them and create text in Art!