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Feedbooks: Public Domain Books
As a service, Feedbooks is a unique solution for e-books: it provides an easy way to find, publish and distribute e-books in a large number of formats, while focusing on creating the best experience for e-books. In Kindle and pdf formats
Converting text to and from speech for accessibility and convenience » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
"I received a question from a technology director this week regarding different options available for text-to-speech conversion software and web-applications. I’m posting what I know here in hopes that others will be able to chime in with more options."
Make any text into a computer-generated audio file with Snow Leopard » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
"For any student having trouble reading material on a screen, text-to-speech technologies can be wonderful. My March 2008 post, “Converting text to and from speech for accessibility and convenience” addressed some of the software options available today for text to speech functionality. Of those, “CLiCk, Speak” is probably the main one to check out. It’s cross-platform, works in the FireFox browser as a plug-in, and is free.
In addition to those text-to-speech options, the latest version of the Macintosh operating system (OS 10.6 “Snow Leopard”) includes the built-in ability to convert highlighted text in many applications into an audio file. Here is an example of a file I created while writing this post, of this paragraph."
Interactivate: Home Page
The goals of Interactivate are the creation, collection, evaluation and dissemination of interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and mathematics
Free Interactive Concentration Game for Elementary Students
"It allows students to play the classic game of Concentration by themselves or against a friend while they practice numbers, geometric shapes, multiplication facts, fractions, decimals and percents.
The activity can be played in one of two modes depending on the level of the student - hidden (covered windows) or visible (glass windows). This allows students to focus on the match itself without having to also remember where the cards are located. "
SpeEdChange: Text-To-Speech to Build Literacy from the Start
Ira Socol blog post about using text to speech for beginning readers
CueCard - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com
CueCard is a simple and intuitive flash card program. Just make up cards for what you want to memorize, and CueCard will quiz you on them. CueCard automatically focuses on the cards you are having trouble with. CueCard also offers printing, pictures and sounds on cards
Flashcard Machine - Create, Study and Share Online Flash Cards
"Welcome to Flashcard Machine, a free web application that enables users to create interactive web-based study flash cards and share them with others."
Bubblr!
Create comic strips from flickr photos
Effective Classroom Practice | Engaging Boys: Powerful Possibilities for All Learners
videos on engaging learning. Haven't watched them, so not sure about quality
DnaTube.com - Scientific Video Site
"DnaTube is a scientific site providing video based studies, lecturers and seminars. On January 18, 2007, we started DnaTube.com to allow a self-growing community to share their scientific experiences and videos"
State Literacy Standards, Practice, and Testing: Exploring Accessibility - NCEO Technical Report 38
Official Google Blog: Automatic captions in YouTube
"To help address this challenge, we've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect (check out the video below for an amusing example), but even when they're off, they can still be helpful—and the technology will continue to improve with time."
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