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AnswerTips® are small information bubbles that define any word when double-clicked. An AnswerTips-enabled site or blog means visitors get fast facts on 4 million topics provided by Answers.com when they double-click on any word, without opening a new browser or following outbound links. *This is a great tool for a teacher website, blog or wiki.

"The Assistive Technology Blog is a publication of the Virginia Department of Education's Training and Technical Assistance Center (T/TAC) at VCU"

* Easily create a classroom website & blog * Manage your students' accounts * Accept homework assignments online * Keep your parents up to date

"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. "

Dragon Dictation 2.0 is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text content for everything from email messages to blog posts on your iPad™, iPhone™ or iPod touch™. In fact, it's up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard. With Dragon Dictation 2.0, you can dictate status updates directly to your Social Networking applications (Facebook and Twitter), send text or email your friends, send notes and reminders to yourself … all using your voice. The new Dragon Dictation 2.0 also features multilingual capabilities, giving you the option to switch between a variety of languages.

"Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages."

"Turn readers into listeners, and transform your blog into a high quality, ad-supporting broadcast that can vastly expand your audience reach! Automatic podcast generation "Near-human" quality text-to-speech Listen Button feature deployed in next to no time for WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, BlogEngine.NET and Terapad platforms"

Firefox add-on. "FoxVox will speak any text you highlight in a web page. FoxVox can also create audiobooks in mp3, ogg, and wav formats. You can now easily turn your blogs and articles into podcasts. FoxVox now supports speech in many different languages."

Safe and simple blogs for your students.

Educational and Assistive Technology to support Universal Access and Universal Design for Learning"

"Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages."

TiPb blog recommendations for math applications

Amazing resource for educators. Each category (blogging, wikis, social bookmarking etc…) has 5 recommended tools highlighted to try out first. Great place for educators to start learning a new tool.

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