Belinda Manning's List: techtools4teachers

Word Central.com is a children dictionary site created by Merriam Webster. The site is aimed toward younger audiences that have already mastered basic reading and spelling skills. The activities on the site appear to be focused on improving spelling and vocabulary.

Freerice is a website where users play various educational, multiple-choice games in order to fight world hunger. For every answer the user answers correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated.

The visual thesaurus is a interactive dictionary and thesaurus with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning.

Visuwords is an awesome visual tool to find new words and improve your vocabulary. When you look up a word in this tool, it shows a neat graph which connects that word to various other words based on different relationships between them.

Wordsift is a new tool which can help you get more information about a word or a sentence by displaying the related images from Google, visual thesaurus showing word relationships and more information about the text, all on one page. The tool was created primarily for teachers so that they can visualize text vocabulary structure and share it with their students.

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go,
Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, or Print out the stories and poems to make your own book.

provide a library on the Internet of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. The texts provided are mostly in the public domain, either because they were never under copyright, or because their copyrights have expired. There are also a few copyrighted texts that Gutenberg has made available with the authors' permission. The project was named after the 15th-century German printer Johannes Gutenberg who propelled the movable type printing press revolution.

Text to speech computer-generated talking character.

What did you think about the tools presented thus far? What have you realized to be your favorite tool?

Answer Engine

Website that creates on-the-fly multimedia presentations of information.

Glogster is a web-Based interactive poster creator. It allows you to present information with pictures, video and audio. In a whole different way.

Create interactive flash tools and games for education.

Quizlet is an online memorization tool. Equipped with games to engage the learner.