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Mar
18th

Tue

Grow Up

Children unscramble pictures depicting each of the four life stages of a: frog, puffin, butterfly, and hedgehog.

This is the only activity I’ve checked out so far. Go to games or resources for more interactive activities about animals.

Read The Words - the ULTIMATE text-to-speech tool

Read The Words is an AWESOME web service, which allows you to convert written text (in basically ANY format) into speech!

There are 14 different voices to choose from, including those that support English, Spanish and French. These voices are of good quality, which is unusual for a FREE product. Additionally, you are able to control the rate and pitch of the voice being used.

The audio file generated by Read The Words can easily be played via web browser, downloaded to an MP3 player, imported into your iTunes, or even posted to a blog or web site.

Workshop Wiki from NJECC Top Ten Web 2.0 Sites

http://techwithme.pbwiki.com/NJECC++2008+Free+Web+ToolsThis is the wiki that Lisa Thumann and Heather Sullivan used to present at the NJECC conference on March 18, 2008.

Online Office, Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, CRM and more Zoho may be my app of choice!

Mar
17th

Mon

REMINDER: This was intended to be a COLLABORATIVE EFFORT!

LiteBrite My students LOVE this fun web-based toy! - techieteacher

What2Learn
Over 1,200 FREE learning games! These interactive activities have been developed using materials provided by the Pearson Publishing Group. Sign up for a teacher or student acount today!

Build Your Own Jeopardy

BYOJeopardy is a jeopardy-like board creator, which teachers could use to make custom review activities.

NOTE: This software is Windows-only.

keybr.com - web-based typing program