Posts Tagged ‘reading’

Tales2Go

December 13th, 2010 3 Comments

Application: Tales2Go What it is: Tales 2 Go is a fantastic app that brings stories to life and sparks kids imaginations by introducing them to audio stories from leading narrators and storytellers.  Tales2Go makes anytime story time!  Students have on-demand and unlimited access to over 1,300 books and stories from leading authors and storytellers.  The [...]

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Iceberg Kids

November 3rd, 2010 Comments Off

Application: Iceberg Kids What it is: IceBerg Kids is an eReader designed especially for kids.  Iceberg Kids brings children’s books to the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.  The free eReader comes with excerpts from Princess Hyacinth; Mr. Funny; Fred and Ted Like to Fly; Merry Christmas, Curious George; The I Love You Book, The Polar [...]

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Bookster: Storytelling Application

October 15th, 2010 4 Comments

Application: Bookster What it is: Bookster is a free read-along storytelling application that reads to students, records and plays their voices, and teaches vocabulary.  Bookster is what kids ebooks should be; complete with high-quality illustrations, narration for kids by kids, a record mode that records as they read out loud, and an easy to use [...]

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Transform Any Text into a Spoken Track

August 25th, 2010 2 Comments

Did you know that you can transform any text in almost any program into a spoken track on iTunes using your Mac?  You can, and it is extraordinarily easy to do! First you need to adjust a setting in your System Preferences: 1. Open System Preferences 2. Click the Keyboard icon 3. Select the Keyboard [...]

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