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"Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Learning Open source software can be used as we wish, without long-term commitments and with a community of professionals that extend and support them. This post is a post of the series "Free e-Learning Resources" and I am going to talk about free and open source text-to-speech tools for e-Learning. "

Awesome site for lower-middle years English literacy and text-types. Structured, downloadable etc

Simple iphone friendly story telling, location, images and text, quite good for a procedural text or excursion report. Students can collaborate on projects. Really good with mobile technology.

Excellent sounding text to speech online tool. Closed to new registration at the moment but well worth keeping an eye on.

Have just been playing with this and must say it looks pretty interesting. you can easily combine pictures, text and video. You can alos create links to other sites etc. The free version also comes with 200 student accounts. I found it in here http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/allison-gray/50-web-apps-for-teachers/ which came from the diigo Classroom 2.0 group.

ThinkB4U is a new series of web safety videos and tutorials from Google and its partners. Using the "choose your own adventure" aspect of YouTube video editing, ThinkB4U offers interactive videos to educate viewers about things like protecting online reputations, avoiding scams, research and critical thinking, and responsible text messaging. ThinkB4U is divided into three basic sections; students, parents, and educators. Each section addresses nine different topics related to safe and responsible use of the Internet and cell phones. The sections include short videos about the topics, a short written lesson, and some interactive games on the topics of responsible use of the Internet and of cell phones.

A collaborative tool where you can create a notebook ....you can add text /images and even clips.

This website catalogues out of copyright text into Audiobooks for free download - can be used on iPods

"Sync.in is a web based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate with text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, training, and mor"

Hi Steve, it looks like its based on the old etherpad code, a great tool until you hit 15 users.

Mark, Even the interface is very similar. PiratePad (http://piratepad.net/) is another alternative Google have now included the EtherPad feature in its new version of google docs (It' still in preview and you need to tick a box in the document editing settngs). I'm yet to try it out with a class. Found that EtherPad also had issues with the 15 users. In a class I would often make more than one pad.

An awesome resource where you choose a subtitle film and add your own words to the text!

Wallwisher is a simple "sticky note" environment that anyone can post a note to (text, images, movies etc). This wallwisher was created for the participants of the Lighthouse Learning Technologies Course 2009

EtherPad is the web-based word processor that allows people to work together in real time

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide.

Create a text based, comic style movie with simple animation. Its very simple, quick and effective. No easy download at this stage or character voices but very easy to use.

Interactive reading ebooks. Studnt & teachers able to annotate text

This site is the Homepage for NSW and is jam-packed with brilliant links for parents, teachers and kids too! The audiofiles and videos are excellent teacher professional development with titles like: Talking with Text, Numeracy at Home, Using the Empty Number LIne and speakers like Prof. Freebody discussing Literacy in our schools! Many of the links could be worth advertising in our schools' Newsletters/Bulletins as we head up to NLNW activities!

A fantastic wiki with some incredible resources on literacy!

My new favourite teaching idea that support the development of comprehension strategies through visualising and summarising

Writing fun is a great way to support students in the writing process

This is an excellent resource and one which i use with my schools very often. The examples are good, and it also provides a scaffold for Microsoft Word that you can download. http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/ is also made by the same person and is worth a look.

In T4L the other day we talked about the guidelines for creating ePubs for through pages. This link has these and more! Great resource on ePubs. See highlighted section