5-8-08

=**Resources for May 8 & 15, 2008 meetings**=

[|Blog post] on the need for textbooks by Carl Fisch

Andrew Church's wiki on Bloom's Taxonomy and technology

**Text to Speech and other software**
[|ReadPlease] - free text to speech software for Windows. Reads any text that you can cut and paste into the program

[|Text Aloud] - text to speech software. Reads documents and web pages. Also allows export to audio file types. Free trial but costs $29.95 to buy

[|Click, Speak] - Extension for Firefox that add text to speech capabilities to the toolbar

[|Natural Reader] - Text to Speech software. Free version converts any written text such as MS Word, Webpage, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words. Paid version will convert written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV.

[|Word Talk] - a free plug-in for Word to add text-to-speech

[|Word Web] - free thesaurus, dictionary for your computer

[|Spoken Text] - text to audio (mp3) converter

**Rubric Creation Sites**
[|Rubistar]

[|Rubric Builder] - from the Landmark Project

[|Assessment Generators] - from the Canadian Teacher site

[|teAchnology Rubric site]

**Flash Cards/Online review activities**
[|Cue Card] 1.5 - flash cards that you can do on the computer or print off

[|Flash Card Machine] - Create your own online flashcards or use ones that others have created

[|Study Stack] - Create your own online flashcards, hangman game, crossword puzzle, matching, word search, or word scramble

**Other Things**
[|Online Timer/Stopwatch] - run it from the web