Again and the third time in a row, I have been nominated for ELTons in Innovation in Teacher Resources; and this time with my dear collageue Jennifer Verschoor.  We have been nominated for our e-book, My First Digital Journey that was published by the Round last year.  Great to be shortlisted again.   You can view the full list of nominations here.  Good luck to everyone! And may the best man win!

Flowlab Website Create your own online and iPhone games right in your browser. No programming experience is required, use flow based programming to visually link simple behaviors into complex game logic. What do you think of Flowlab?

SpeakIt Website SpeakIt is a Chrome extension that reads selected text using Text-to-Speech technology with language auto-detection. It can read text in more than 50 languages. What do you think of SpeakIt?

Select and Speak Website Select and Speak is a Chrome extension that uses iSpeech's human sounding text to speech (TTS). It includes 43 iSpeech text to speech voices. You can configure the voice and speed option by changing the settings at options page. What do you think of Select and Speak?

PhoneTrans Website PhoneTrans helps you transfer and manage music, apps, movies, music videos, TV shows, podcasts, ringtones, eBooks from your iPhone to/ from your computer. PodTrans and PhoneBrowse also available. What do you think of PhoneTrans?

Cleverlize Website Cleverlize lets you create educational apps for multiple platforms without programming. Just enter your contents and create apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc. Build your apps in the cloud. What do you think of Cleverlize?

TalkTyper Website TalkTyper is free speech to text dictation software that works in your browser. Based on the speech input provided by Google in the Chrome browser. What do you think of TalkTyper?

Adobe has recently released a great app that we can all use for digital storytelling: Adobe Voice; a stunning app to create animated videos. It’s a very user friendly app that we can use in all grades. You can upload your pictures, or use some pictures from the Adobe gallery on different slides. Then, you record your voice over each slide. As you can listen to yourself on each slide, if you would like to rerecord your voice, it’s the easiest thing to do. Just click on the record button. When you are done, you can preview your video, and then you can share it on different social media tools; also send it in an email. This app is great for telling stories, doing presentations, creating advertisements or book trailers. Students can upload their own pictures and create their own stories with their own voices. Teachers can put the pictures of a field trip in a minute and create a sideshow to share it with parents. This app is free and I think it’s been one of the best apps that I have ever used with my kids.  

Themeefy Website Themeefy is a curation and self-publishing platform where you can gather information from the web or create your own content and share/read published magazines. What do you think of Themeefy?

Grammarbase Website Grammarbase scans your text to identify any and all grammar mistakes and misspellings. Useful for students, professors and those who are leaning English. No registration or downloads required. What do you think of Grammarbase?