Sunday, October 18, 2015

Embedding a google doc in to blogger

Good direct embed guide: http://www.ictsteps.com/2013/05/how-to-embed-google-docs-into-blogger.html
Embed and resize: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/embed-resize-google-document-50131.html


Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Text to speech

Testing testing 123





<script src='https://code.responsivevoice.org/responsivevoice.js'></script>

<input onclick='responsiveVoice.speak("Hello World");' type='button' value='🔊 Play' />

Saturday, March 7, 2015

tubesnack - another way to create embed-able youtube playlists



Positives - 6 different user friendly styles

Negatives - max 100 vids
                 - not super easy to remove and add new videos

Pollsnack

Poll




You can also create a Survey or Personality style Quiz on this site. Sadly neither of these quizzes has a name option =( so can't tell which child answered, otherwise it could be used for home work quizzes for e.g maths.

Free blog templates

very pretty but does restrict the modifcations you can make with them.


http://www.blogdesignsbydani.com/search/label/All%20Free%20Templates

Post Divider - how to

http://www.somethingswanky.com/how-to-create-post-divider/

http://shabbyblogsblog.blogspot.co.nz/2009/06/tutorial-how-to-add-post-dividers-to.html

Slidesnack - a fairly easy way to share a powerpoint

The reason i say 'fairly' is because you have to first save your powerpoint (.ppt) as a pdf, which seems a bit strange but the results are well worth it!



FlipSnack - Create and embed your own class books that you can flip and read!






And if you upgrade to premium, you can even add an audio file to each page, creating your own read to self books!!!

Monday, February 23, 2015

vozMe - From text to speech (speech synthesis)

Click on the link below to read my story...

http://vozme.com/speech/en-fm/f0/f076467fa84319d15c6cfc28a49bc894.mp3

It should say???

Testing Testing 1 2 3
Lets see if this works shall we?
If it does, it would have very interesting applications for writing, don't you think?
Child could type up their stories and publish them directly to their class blogs in an audio format.

from vozMe - From text to speech (speech synthesis)