Print Friendly & PDF Chrome Extension

Print Friendly & PDF creates printer-friendly versions of online resources and generates images and PDF files to share with students.  Students can adjust the text size, delete text & images, and have the options to print, save as a PDF or email the document.

VoiceDream Writer App Update

I previously posted about the VoiceDream Writer.  This app is now on sale for $7.99 until February 2nd!  Also I have placed a demo video here.  The video is about 20 minutes long, but it is worth it to see all of the features this app includes for struggling students.


Voice Dream Writer Demo from Winston Chen on Vimeo.

InnerVoice AAC App

InnerVoice is a new type of AAC app designed specifically for students on the autism spectrum.  It costs $19.99. However they are offering a no cost trial.  This app allows students to use avatars that mouths, eyes, and eyebrows move as they are speaking with the device.  It also give an option of importing the students picture and have the avatar be the student. 

ehighlighter app for the iPhone

The ehighlighter app for the iPhone is free for today!! This app allows students to take a picture of some text, then highlight the important text within the image.  The app will then save the highlights into its own section.  You can also add notes to your highlights.  This app allows you to search for your sources or just scan the book bar-code and the app will automatically insert your source.  You have the option of exporting your highlights and notes through email, evernote, or dropbox.

iBrailler App

The iBrailler app is a new app that has been designed to help iPad users who are visually impaired!  The app allows you to type as you would on a standard brailler. You place 8 to 10 fingers on the iPad and a dynamic keyboard appears under your fingers no matter where they are placed on the screen.  This app also has other great features such as voice integration, audio feedback, colorblind friendly palettes, web search short cuts, intuitive gestures, and more! Visit their website to learn more about this app.

MindNode App

The MindNode app ($9.99) is a great and easy way for users to brainstorm ideas.  This mind mapping app allows you to change colors, insert pictures or text, and share your mind maps to others as PDFs, OPML, PNG, FreeMind or text file.  You can also share interactive documents publicly through the MyMindNode service.  This app is very user friendly and is a great way for students to start to brainstorm their ideas and thoughts. 

Active Voice HD

Active Voice HD allows users to access speech-to-text.  You hit the microphone and speak into the iPad.  When you are finished hit stop and your speech will be written into text.  This app allows users to edit text either with voice or with the keyboard.  When using this app you can also translate your text into 32 different languages!  Also, there is voice recognition support for 34 languages and accents.

Voice Dream Writer

Voice Dream Writer is a new app from the makers of Voice Dream Reader.  This app allows users access to text-to-speech to proofread their work.  It also gives users a unique experience to search words through a phonetic and meaning search.  For example, search for "inuf" phonetically, and you will find "enough", and search for "Fast Africa Cat" by meaning and you will find "Cheetah."  This app also creates an outline of headings, paragraphs, and sentences as you type. 

Shadow Puppet Edu App

The Shadow Puppet Edu app is a great free resource for educators.  This app has over 30 lesson ideas supporting to Common Core to make it easy to get started.  Users can use photos and videos, record their voice, add text, and draw into this app.  There are also educational image search options such as the Library of Congress, NASA, Met Musuem, Creative Commons and more.  This app also makes the videos easy to share once they are completed.

Audio Notebook App

Audio Notebook is a great note-taking app for students and professionals.  This app allows you to record lectures or meetings while taking notes simultaneously.  Users can play back their audio when finished which allows them to go back and edit notes if they missed anything important.  Users can also email their written and audio notes.  This app has some great organizational features as well such as color coding, sort by name or by date, and more. 
Here is a great video so you can see some of the features this app offers.

Prizmo App

Prizmo ($9.99) is an app that allows users to take a picture of a document, write into that document, and have that document read aloud to them.  It appears to work well.  However, I have noticed if the document has a lot of symbols or pictures it has a hard time detecting those with its text to speech.  The good news is you can edit all of the information before you read the document.

WeKWL App

WeKWL is a free app that allows educators a collaborative way for student to create KWL charts (What we think we know? What do we want to know? What are we learning?).  Students can work in this app and build a KWL chart together, working synchronously on the same chart, or working on a different chart.  You can use as many students as you want who can work collaboratively to build a KWL chart.

ClassDojo

ClassDojo is available for free and can be used on phones, tablets, or on the computer.  This is a great resource for classroom management.  The teacher can use this app to create seating charts, take attendance, and keep track of student behavior.  Each student gets an individual activation code so they can keep track of individual progress.  ClassDojo also makes it easy to share information with parents on student progress.  This is a great free resource for any educator!  It not only helps you keep track of data, but it also engages students to want to participate and have positive behavior in class.

Sentence Key: WHO is DOing What

Computerade Products makes several apps.  Sentence Key: WHO is DOing What is one of those apps.  This app allows users to build sentences in a format that is similar to an AAC device.  There are 3 levels of difficulty and an animation with speech feedback that reinforces the correct match.  This app is also switch accessible and takes data.