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A Google a Day: Efficient searching.

There is a great website called, helpfully, agoogleaday.com  You will be asked for your Google+ log in but even if you don’t have one, you can still play the basic game.  Each day there is a new question and you are timed to see how fast you can get the right answer using Google. If  Full Article…

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Scoop.it

Those of you who use the Taccle2 site regularly will notice we have a new feature on the right hand toolbar.  This pulls in the last 6 websites posted on the Taccle2 Scoop.it feed. It is an easy way to create links to pages we think teachers might find useful without having to write a  Full Article…

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Rewordify

Ideas for using this in the classroom…. Ask pupils to rewrite a story they are studying for a much younger age  group, using rewordify to help. Use rewordify in English Language lessons. Let the slower readers use rewordify to save them having to use a dictionary Have a competition between groups to simplify a piece  Full Article…

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Give students a voice with Flipgrid

Flipgrid is an interesting application for asynchronous communication. It was developed by the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota. Flipgrid allows a teacher (or account holder) to post a short written question and students can answer that question with a video message that is limited to 90 seconds. All the video responses end  Full Article…

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Jott: Explore speech to text technology

www.jott.com Jott is one of the coolest application of speech to text technologies we have seen. Once you sign up for a free account, call Jott on your phone and you can leave a message which will be converted to text and posted on your blog, twitter speed or to do list. The conversion is  Full Article…

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