Lingro is an amazing online tool that turns any website or digital text file into an interactive dictionary where users can click on a word to view it's definition and hear it's pronunciation. Support by 12 languages, Lingro is also a very useful...
Home » Archives for 6/1/11 - 7/1/11
Pulse for iPad: A Gorgeous News Feed Reader
in
apps,
common core,
cool tools,
differentiation,
education,
free technology,
interactive,
ipad,
multimedia,
pulse,
research,
student tools,
technology,
tutorials,
web 2.0
- on 8:53 AM
- 2 comments

Pulse is an iPad app that collects multiple sources of your favorite news feeds and displays them in a convenient and attractive way to create a highly enjoyable reading experience.
News sources you select are arranged as a stream. Just...
Labels:
apps,
common core,
cool tools,
differentiation,
education,
free technology,
interactive,
ipad,
multimedia,
pulse,
research,
student tools,
technology,
tutorials,
web 2.0
VocabGrabber: Generate Vocabulary Lists from Digital Text
in
common core,
cool tools,
differentiation,
education,
free technology,
interactive,
multimedia,
research,
student tools,
technology,
tutorials,
vocabulary,
web 2.0
- on 5:21 PM
- No comments
VocabGrabber is a Cool Tool that makes it easy to generate vocabulary lists from digital text. Just copy and paste text into a box and watch the tool generate a word cloud in which the most frequently used words appear larger in size. Those...
Twurdy: Search by Appropriate Readibility Levels
in
common core,
cool tools,
differentiation,
education,
free technology,
interactive,
multimedia,
readability,
research,
search engine,
student tools,
technology,
tutorials,
twurdy,
web 2.0
- on 3:11 PM
- No comments

Twurdy is a Google powered search tool that displays results at appropriate readability levels. Just enter a search term to get color-coded results which determine how easy the page will be to understand. This is certainly a useful tool to...
Online Bulletin Board of EdTech Blogs
- on 11:57 AM
- 1 comment
As a tech facilitator much of my success can be attributed to what I learn through the contacts I've made via my Personal Learning Network. Summer is a great time for educators to begin to build a personal learning network and so I've decided to simultaneously...