for English and Language Arts
Top 10 Must Have Technologies |
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E-reader apps |
These apps are used to read e-books; some allow reading of books in ePub and PFD formats. Reader apps allow customization of fonts, page colors, and brightness; highlighting, note taking, book marking, sharing quotes via social networking apps, searching; voice-over; dictionary. |
https://www.tomsguide.com/round-up/best-ebook-reader-apps Moon+ Reader - Android App Review - Best eBook Reader App for Android |
Kindle (Android, iOS: Free) Serial Box (Android, iOS) tiReader (iOS: Free) Libby by Overdrive (Android, iOS: Free) FullReader (Android: Free) KyBook 3 (iOS: Free) Moon+ Reader (Android: Free) FBReader (Android: Free) Aldiko (Android, iOS: Free) Marvin 3 (iOS: Free) iBooks (iOS) Blue Fire (iOs, Android, and Windows) Libby by Overdrive (Android, iOS: Free) |
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Piktochart |
Design simple or complex multimodal posters, infographics, and flyers that contain images, text, and/or multimedia using templates that are ready-made or customized from scratch. Multimedia include videos, maps, and charts. Piktochart is versatile with a variety of text structures, including both narrative and nonfiction information.It is exportable into a variety of formats (e.g., PDF, JPEG, and PNG or web link). |
https://piktochart.com/video-tutorials/ Piktochart Demo: Create Beautiful Visuals Using Piktochart |
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International Children’s Digital Library Free Books for Children (ICDL) |
The largest collection of free children’s books. |
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/06/free-ebooks-for-children.html How to use the International Children's Digital Library website
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Books in multiple languages and summaries in English are sourced from more than 60 countries. It holds thousands of books and is completely free.
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Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) |
The DPLA brings together collections “in a single platform and portal, providing open and coherent access to our society’s digitized cultural heritage.” |
https://guides.lib.fsu.edu/DPLA https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/02/digital-public-library-america-dpla |
Access to materials, many of them primary sources, are available on the website through a search engine, in exhibitions, by place, and by date.
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iBook Author (iOS)
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Software allows teachers and students to create and publish books for iPad and Mac.
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https://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
https://www.raywenderlich.com/2767-how-to-make-an-ebook-with-ibooks-author-tutorial#toc-anchor-004
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From <https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/07/5-awesome-examples-of-how-students-can.html> |
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Evernote |
This app allows users to easily type written notes, save files, take photos, record audio, save web pages (including text, images, and links). |
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evernote&hl=en_US
10 Reasons why You Should Be Using Evernote in 2019
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VoiceThread |
VoiceThread is a cloud-based application that allows users to upload, share and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files and videos. |
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.VoiceThread&hl=en_US |
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Vocabulary Spelling City |
This is an interactive, game-based website and mobile app providing students with different games focused on word study practice, helping spelling and vocabulary development. |
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spellingcity.VocabularySpellingCity&hl=en_US
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vocabularyspellingcity/id538407602 |
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Microsoft Photo Story |
User-friendly photo presentation tool can be used for digital storytelling and multimodal forms of writing.
Students plan and organize their story, locate and arrange images, add text to the story, and enhance it with multimedia such as audio and music, thereby creating a multimodal text. |
https://download.cnet.com/Photo-Story-3-for-Windows/3000-12511_4-10339154.html
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Google Docs |
Part of G Suite, this cloud-based word processor can be used for writing workshop (drafting, editing, revising, and peer review). |
https://www.google.com/docs/about/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.docs&hl=en_US
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-docs-sync-edit-share/id842842640
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