Learning Clip is an online resource for teaching primary maths. There are hundreds of interactive activities, video clips and worksheets covering a huge range of mathematical topics, concepts and methods.
Registration is free and registered users can access a great selection of free resources, and for the first time, from January 2011, we are offering online resources adapted for Promethean Activexpression and Activote learner response systems.
Free text to speech. Uses the world's best text to speech (TTS) software.
Upload documents, cut and paste text or link to feeds. Text reader converts text to speech automatically. Download audio and podcasts.
It's fast and easy to use. Get started right away! No software to download or install.
Unlike all other TTS websites, YAKiToMe! is 100% free!
"Free text reader. Listen to work documents, homework, PowerPoint presentations, emails, RSS feeds, blogs, books ... while you relax, commute or exercise. Great for elearning, learning a new language, proofreading documents, multi-tasking and entertainment. YAKiToMe! speaks English, Spanish, French, German ... with male and female voices using the world's best text to speech (TTS) software technologies. "
"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 dictionary and a text-to-mp3 converter."
Download this free app for your Google Chrome browser. Within Google Docs a TextHelp toolbar provides many features including: highlight and read text, dictionary, picture dictionary, translater and collect highlights. While there are some glitches - I noticed that the highlight and collect feature didn't always pull what I highlighted - this free tool is a great additional to supporting students reading and writing.
Free audio books in the public domain.
"LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books."
Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.
"The Sandbox is the Lab's way of sharing high-quality video clips with you - for free. Use our clips to make a mash-up, documentary, music video, or whatever!"
"WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. Visit wa.cs.washington.edu to access WebAnywhere directly. And, it's completely FREE to use! "
Photos to be used for both personal and commerical free of any charge (must agree and comply with provider's terms and conditions). This is a place for free Photos and Wallpapers, Large collection of high resolution stock photos, Thousands of high quality pictures, easy to search.
"SSReader is a free, large font reader for OS X that speaks text files
aloud and displays the text stanza-after-stanza, simultaneously.
Although this reader was created to assist those with visual impairments, it can be used by anyone"
"PowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.
You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic 'Text To Speech' programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images"
This site has free audio to download and listen on-line. For example: under speeches you have downloads and links to Abraham Lincoln, MLK, Susan B. Anthony etc. Some are the actual presenter, others are actors and skilled amateurs.