Comprehensible Input Through Multi-Media
Kaizena embeds voice, text and resources (...think audio, visual tutorial) in Google Docs. Teachers can highlight and rate evidence of skills and Kaizena automatically completes an embedded rubric. Use Kaizena's built-in lessons to quickly attach explainer videos to highlights. Teachers can save their own videos, voice and text comments as lessons,
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ThingLink embed images, video, text, images, audio, site links into background images. Add up to 100 students with free account. Paid premium account allows creation of interactive videos and a super-expensive add-on creates AR/VR 360 experiences, but I would stick with less expensive alternatives for this.
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Genial.ly is an easy-to-use and free web-tool used to create interactive visual content. This content can be used to enhance websites/blogs or as a communication tool (i.e. to make presentations, infographics, reports, posters, or guides). Great alternative to Thinglink.
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WatchKnowLearn contains thousands of free videos, curated for education, organized by topic, filterable by age, Registered accounts are able to create collections.
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EDpuzzle is a flipped classroom authoring tool augments videos with questions, teacher voice overs, prompts, and collects analytics. Free accounts allow unlimited students, classes and videos. Presentations can be embedded and shared. Students can make their own private augmented videos as projects.
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Playposit is a web and Chrome-based interactive video and assessment tool that lets teachers add interactive elements to streaming video content from popular sites such as YouTube and Vimeo, among a number of others. If your school blocks these more popular sites, PlayPosit can also work with sites such as TeacherTube, Shmoop, and even Google Drive videos.
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Insert Learning embeds instructional content into any web page. Teachers can scaffold text with questions and media that help students be more successful learners.
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Read & Write for Google by TextHelp is one of the few tools included here that is paid; the former robust free access has been eliminated. Teachers have access to a free account but students do not. An integrated tool which includes an customizable toolbar that integrates text-to-speech, translation, text and picture dictionaries, multiple color highlighting.
Free web-based alternatives offering text to speech only: Natural Reader Speech Central |