Web 2.0 Tools

Web 2.0 Tools for Education

Simple Mind is a Mind Mapping tool that turns your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structing device.

Simple Minds helps students organize their thoughts and get them all down in one spot. Students need to be able to have a device that they can use to put their ideas in one area. If they have a project to work on, or a piece of literature they need to write it is a good idea to get ideas all written out. Especially if they are working in a group setting, all the members can write down their ideas so everyone knows where their group members stand on the topic.

It can remove barriers: students understand every opinion examined in the area of study. These tools will need to utilized in grade 3 or higher. They need to be able to write and utilize the program.

Create TTS Audio: Use our high quality text to speech, synthesis to create audio from text content.

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Free - Speech SDKs: Voice-enable mobile apps with our free, open source text to speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) SDKS

Embeded and Hosted Voice: iSpeech provides custom embedded and cloud solutions for text to voice and voice recognition for any device or use case.

TTS API and ASR API: Speech API enables natural text to speech and speech recognition in many spoken langauges.

TTS for Chrome: Try select and speak - text to speech, our powerful chrome app to voice-enable web content (non-commercial use only)

This is perfect for students who need help reading and understanding speech within a text. If students need help putting words onto paper this is also something that will help students reach their fulll potential. 

This would remove some barriers because it can help students break reading, or writting barriers that they are lacking. 

This is something that young students as young as Kindergarten (with the help of an aid to run a program).

Create and share dynamic conversations around documents, snapshots, diagrams and videos --basically anything there is to talk about. You can talk, type, and draw right on the screen. VoiceThread takes yours conversations to the next level, capturing your presence, not just your comments. Anyone can join the discussion from their iPhone, iPad, etc.

Students can use VoiceThreads to collaborate on porjects. It enables students to speak out using VoiceThreads when they couldnt in class infront of their peers. It also allows students to access their project away from school and away from their classmates and still work on it. 

This can remove barriers for students, so they speak out and work towards better group projects in the end. Students would have to be in grades 4 or higher inorder to work with this project and run it by themselves.