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Text to speech site that accepts typed text, uploaded Word and .pdf files and creates an audio with a talking avatar. You can then download as mp3, podcast, email. Free account is limited to 30 second recordings but special teacher package is available.

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Tool for helping teachers differentiate content.

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Free poster-creating tool for making large printable posters.

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Paul's slideshow of Sointula with Somewhere Over the Rainbow soundtrack. We travel to some amazing places in this job. Check out this delicious slideshow with music, captions, fun effects, and more.

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photos digitalstorytelling tools

Free tool recommended by Paul Hamilton for making flyers etc.

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Very cool Firefox extension lets you select a word and perform a multitude of actions including reference to dictionaries or wikipedia, convert, translate, shop, share, etc. Check out the popular Firefox Add-On Hyperwords.Updated to version 5.5 and now supports Twitter and Facebook. Available for free from http://www.hyperwords.n...

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Awesome free site creates embed code that you can use to embed documents or videos on your wiki or website. Very cool because once embedded you can scroll or enlarge sections of the document.

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embed video tools

23 online activities to try with Web 2.0 tools...pretty good overlap with the BC UDL project.

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Wallwisher is an online notice board maker. Discussing a new idea? Taking notes? Giving feedback? Voicing opinion? Wishing a happy birthday? Now do all that easily with Wallwisher wall and some stickies.

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Converting sound, text and video files, video, music and documents

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audio videos tools

This is a twitter-like network that SET-BC employees use to communicate with each each other.

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collaborative yammer tools

Free portable apps including firefox and open office that can be downloaded to a USB drive.

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Convert files to just about any image, document, audio, or video type.

zamzar.com - Preview

photos video audio tools

Put in the url and file will be downloaded with .flv extension...the format used by SB.

kej.tw/flvretriever - Preview

video smartboard tools

This site allows you to upload a video and add subtitles in order to make it accessible. You can also view other videos that have been uploaded.

dotsub.com/ - Preview

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Click the type of format and this website puts your citation into correct form.

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This free Firefox add-on allows you to see the definition of any word displayed on the browser screen by hovering the mouse cursor over the word and pressing the spacebar. Definitions are provided by Wiktionary. For more info check out Paul Hamilton's r

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language arts vocabulary tools dictionary

Free online dictionary with derivations and audio pronunciation. The site also has a word of the day, daily puzzles, multilingual dictionary, and text translation. Site also has a Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, All reference, and web tab. "Cite this source" button on all the reference tools takes you to citations already done in different styles.

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language arts tools vocabulary reference dictionary

Navify is an interface for viewing Wikipedia articles with videos, music, photo galleries, and comments. One of the strategies for supporting students' recognition network is using multiple examples and using a variety of media. This resource makes it easy!

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This is SET-BC consultant Paul Hamilton's list of udl resources. These are mostly free applications such as text readers and digital story-telling resources that are a good fit with udl principles.

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