A Curriculum Staple: Reading Aloud to Teens | School Library Journal
"VideoAnt is a web-based video annotation tool for mobile and desktop devices. Use VideoAnt to add annotations, or comments, to web-hosted videos. VideoAnt-annotated videos are called 'Ants.'"
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‘What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text’ [from The New York Times]
"Although I’ve played with Kindles and iPads and Nooks, and I like them all in theory, I haven’t been able to commit to any of them. As readers, they disable the thing that, to me, defines reading itself. And yet I’ve continued to hope that, in some not-too-distant future, e-reading will learn to take marginalia seriously. And it looks as if that might be happening right now."
Annotating to Engage, Analyze, Connect and Create [The New York Times eLearning blog]
"In this post we hope to both expand their definition of what annotation can be and inspire them to experiment with new ways of doing it — in class and out."
Collaborative annotating app that scaffolds critical thinking and enables flipped learning. Can be used with print and video.
The best and easiest to use totally free mobile learning apps
"There are thousands of apps you can use for education. Here are the best totally FREE mobile learning apps that can be used on both Android and Mac mobile platforms."
Ponder - the essential Online Reading App [from eLearn Hub]
"Ponder is the new online reading app that supports engagement and analyses in a super easy and fun way. Readers can question anything of interest in an online article and give feedback to the rest of the class. It’s a bit like highlighting text in a book and sharing that information. Ponder may well be the next big thing."
"Glose is a social reader for ebooks. Choose from our huge collection of paid and free books. Read books on any device: computer, tablet, or smartphone. Engage with readers and authors through your favorite books. All in one place.
Academic Vocabulary Lists (Corpus-based; 120 million words)
A project by linguists based at BYU. The site includes downloadable word lists as well as online interfaces for detailed information about particular words as well as feedback about inputted academic text, i.e. frequency of Tier 2 words in a text.
Academic Vocabulary List [from the literacy beat blog]
A new online tool allows teachers and researches to analyze the academic vocabulary demands (Tier 2 vocabulary) of a piece of text
Literacy in the Disciplines [on the literacy beat blog]
"This page is a digital home for teachers and teacher educators to find resources about literacy in the disciplines. Resources include podcasts and video interviews. What does literacy look like in mathematics, science, art, history, and many other disciplines?"
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Lights, Cameras, Action: Let’s Flip Your Classroom! [from ILA's Teaching withTech blog]
"We explore applications like SMART Notebook Software, Screencast-O-Matic, and EDpuzzle. I like EDpuzzle because you can upload your videos and then add questions and stopping points to assist with processing and accountability of the lesson. It also lets you know who watched the videos and how students answer your embedded questions. We practice recording videos and then design lessons for 3–5 minute flipping videos that introduce a skill or strategy while holding students accountable for the content within the video. "
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