February Treasure Hunt

This month’s hunt: a couple of fantastic Chrome extensions – one for readability and the other for content curation. A YouTube playlist on Water/Water Crisis with handouts in Word and as a pdf. And finally, some tools you can use with your students to make posters and two earlier posts Read More …

Flipbooks

According to Paperturn, flipbook (flip-book) is “an interactive, HTML5 online publication that has the look and feel of a real, page-turning publication (complete with page-turning sound effects, page shadows and more)”. This form of online presentation is very popular amongst hospitality, housing or photography businesses showcasing and marketing their services.  Read More …

Screen recorders

Tired of repeating the same thing umpteen times? Stop straining your voice then! Don’t waste time any more and start recording the screen! Let’s have a quick look at the benefits  and the best tools to do it.  Recording the screen boosts students’ engagement and promotes learner autonomy and ownership. It Read More …

Let students hear the text: TTS (text-to-speech) extensions

TTS  (text-to-speech) tools have proven beneficial not only for learners with diverse needs for support including dyslexia, visual, hearing or speech impairments, selective mutism or pronunciation difficulties.  TTS tools also support learners wanting to improve  their literacy skills engaging their auditory intelligence or those who describe themselves as auditory learners. Read More …