Love

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New Web Tools for Teachers

Below is a list of some great new web tools I have curated for teachers.

The purpose of such lists is to provide teachers with ready materials to use in their classroom and keep those who are too busy to go online and search for web tools, keep them updated on the latest releases in the world of educational technology.
Enjoy!


1- ImageQuiz

As its name indicates, this tool allows you to create quizzes around images. ImageQuiz has several predefined quizzes that you can use with images but you can also create your own quizzes based on images you want.

2- Pixaby

This is a great resource where you and your students can have access to a treasure trove of free images to your in your projects. The images are also royalty free and do not require any attribution to the author.

3- Book Results

Book Results is a free eBook search engine which you can use to search for free eBooks available online. Just type in the title of the eBook and you will be presented with a list of results to choose from.

4- Oweb Voice Input

This is an extension that you can install on your Chrome browser to convert your speech into words. Just click on the mic icon and start speaking, it is marvelous.

5- WireWax

This is an free, online-based video tool for adding motion-tracking hotspots to people and objects in video. The process is akin to adding a tag to a Facebook photo, and once these hotspots are added, users can then add buttons with images, formatted text, links and applications. The latter of these, apps, is where it gets exciting... Users, content owners and producers can add video-in-video, SMS message senders, image carousels, competitions, interactive games, animations - just about anything which can be imagined.

6- Presentation.io

This is a tool to help you broadcast your presentations to mobile devices, tablets and laptops no matter where you are, in the same room or in different parts of the world.

7- Flashcard Stash

Flashcard Stash is built on top of a dictionary, so you can lookup words above and save them. Click on functions in the top right of each vocabulary flashcard for example sentences, synonyms, and audio. Highlighted words can also be clicked for an immediate definition.

8- Tag Cloud

This is a great world cloud tool you can use to generate word clouds out of text you provide, the URL of a webpage or even from a document you upload to Tag Cloud.


http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/03/8-great-new-web-tools-for-teachers.html

10 tips for giving killer presentations with the new Prezi

From using new 3D backgrounds effectively to manipulating multiple objects at once, here are 10 pro tips for using the newest version of Prezi, the red-hot visual presentation tool.

Read more: http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/detail/82161#slide3

Verbling

Verbling - Learn a New Language in a Google+ Hangout:

Verbling is a language learning service that launched back in July. When it launched its purpose was to match native speakers of Spanish and English to help each other learn a new language. Since then it has added support for French, Italian, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew, and Russian.

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Phrasal verb: to pass off

O verbo to pass tem sempre um significado de passar, ocorre, acontecer e hoje vamos ver como é usado o phrasal verb to pass off.
Se algo passes off well ou badly, tal evento acontece dessa maneira:

• The visit passed off without any serious incidents. [A visita aconteceu sem qualquer incidente sério.]
• The protest march passed off without any serious trouble. [A marcha de protesto aconteceu sem nenhum problema sério.]

To pass off também é usado quando você se faz passar por alguém ou quando tenta vender ou passar algo como algo que não é:

• They bought up pieces of old furniture and passed them off as valuable antiques. [Compraram uns móveis velhos e os vendi como antiguidades valiosas.]
• He passed himself off as a doctor. [E se fez passar por médico.]
• He put on an old blue suit, intending to pass himself off as a businessman. [Ele colocou um terno azul velho, pretendendo se passar de homem de negócios.]
• The watches are fakes, but they tried to pass them off as genuine Rolexes. [Os relógios são falsos, mas tentaram vendê-los como genuínos Rolex.]

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