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Fluency Tutor is an application for Google Chrome which allows educators to assign reading passages to students via their Google Drive accounts. 
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Once again Paul Hamilton brings us another great tool to use with Chrome, VoiceNote. He states that it "offers excellent voice-to-text...VoiceNote opens as a dictation window." Therefore it may "sit on top of a document being written" (or occupy your entire screen). A few of the features he mentions are: * dictating directly into a text box facilitates creating paragraphs or longer selections of text * on-screen buttons for adding punctuation * suport for multiple languages For more information click through to the post.
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Scoop.it!
Last week, Texthelp announced that a surprise was coming soon in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. Today that surprise was revealed - Read&Write for Google is now Free for Teachers!
Beth Dichter's insight:
ReadWrite Gold for Chrome is a great tool...and is once again free for educators! What does it do? It is a Chome "extension that provides comprehensive reading and writing supports for Google Docs and the Web as well as PDFs, ePubs, and KES files stored in Google Drive." Specific features include: * Read Aloud that has dual highlighting * Word prediction * Talking and picture dictionaries * Annotations and much more. If you already have ReadWrite Gold installed you can upgrade by going to this link: http://rw.texthelp.com/drive/home/RegisterTeacher If you do not have it yet download the 30 day trial. You may register for the free version afterwards.
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If you have Chrome installed on computers at your school consider checking out this app called Fluency Tutor. The website states FluencyTutor "is an easy-to-use, time-saving leveled reading and assessment tool that helps busy teachers support struggling readers. Teachers pick reading passages based on content, lexile level or reading age and share with individual students or groups via Google Drive."
Students may access material from home or school and can record passages. Text-to-speech, a dictionary, a picture dictionary and translation tools are also available.
The teacher dashboard and the student area for interaction is free. If you want to be able to see analytics, track progress, and more there is a charge of $99 per year (for teachers).
Tools such as this are great free resources for many students. You might also want to check out Read&Write for Google.