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Technology-Enhanced Social-Emotional Activities

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From seltechnology.weebly.com - January 27, 1:19 AM
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Beth Dichter's curator insight, January 11, 6:18 AM

This new website from Jackie Gerstein explores technology use in social and emotional learning. Quoting from the site "This website has been designed to describe technology activities that facilitate social emotional learing.The links in the menu lead to descriptions of the individual activities. They can be sued within formal and inforrmal educational setting. Even though the focus of the activities are on building and enhacing social emtional learning, many can be connected with content standards related to language arts, oral communication, media literacy, and ISTE's National Education Standards for Students."

The website is very easy to use. There is a menu that provides a list of 14 activities, including Conflict Management Strategies Posters, Book Trailers, and Teach Tech to Grandparents. Most have samples of projects. Not all are relevant to all ages but she does state that she has used some with both elementary and college students.

 
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NaturalReader Text to Speech

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Ana Cristina Pratas's curator insight, February 24, 9:01 AM

The NaturalReader text-to-speech(TTS) application converts PDF files, MS Word documents, and e-books into spoken words. 

Instead of struggling to read text on the small screen of your iPhone, with this cutting edge technology you can have any text read to you in one of over 30 natural-sounding voices.

Squinting to reading tiny fonts on your iPhone screen can be tiring. NaturalReader saves you from experiencing eye strain, and lets you sit back, relax, and listen. 

It is also an efficient proofreading tool; it not only picks out mistakes in your work, but gives you a good sense of the natural flow of what you have written. 

Moreover, NaturalReader is a great help to students with dyslexia or other learning difficulties. By listening to text rather reading, students are better able to comprehend reading materials or detect spelling errors in their own work.

Finally, NaturalReader is a great tool with which to learn a foreign language. You can practice your comprehension and pronunciation skills by listening to any written words being spoken at your preferred speed.
Gayla Keesee's curator insight, March 6, 10:33 AM

There's also a free download for your desktop computer. http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.php

Includes Microsoft VoicesCan read aloud any textCan adjust speed and change voiceComes with a floating bar to read any text in other applications
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