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Tech Tool of the Month: Animate from Audio – Part 1

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Adobe Express’s Animate from audio is a powerful, user-friendly tool that allows you to transform your voice into a lively animated character video with just a few clicks. This tool leverages advanced speech recognition and animation technology to seamlessly sync mouth movements and gestures with your audio. Choose from various animated avatars, including robots, cartoon characters, … read more »

Tech Tool of the Month: eMargin – Part 1

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eMargin is a web-based tool that allows you to annotate and collaborate. Users can upload text from their device, provide a website URL, or copy and paste text to annotate. You can use the menu on the right side of the screen to highlight text with your choice of color, add tags and notes, search for … read more »

Tech Tool of the Month: Google My Maps – Part 1

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Google My Maps is a web-based tool that allows students and teachers to create and share custom maps. My Maps allows users to collaborate on maps in real time. Multiple users can simultaneously create and edit maps that incorporating markers, shapes, and lines to personalize the map and layers to help organize the map’s content. … read more »

Tech Tool of the Month: Fakebook (by Classtools.net) – Part 1

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Fakebook allows students and teachers to create Fakebook pages (similar in design to Facebook). Profiles can be made about real or fictional people. You can include images, profile photos, friends, posts (that can be dated), and additional information. You can save a project (by creating a password) and return to work on it later, making … read more »

Tech Tool of the Month: TEACHFLIX – Part 1

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TEACHFLIX is home to a variety of engaging videos and virtual field trips crowdsourced by teachers. You don’t have to complete the free registration, but doing so allows you to download an ebook full of activities that accompany the videos. You can search videos by topic or grade level (elementary, middle, or high school). If … read more »

Tech Tool of the Month: Adobe Express Free Comic Strip Maker – Part 1

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Adobe Express Free Comic Strip Maker offers many templates to design, share, and download high-quality comic strips. Quickly search to find the template you wish to use and change color design options, add your text, add images, and then click to download or publish on the web. You can also create several pages of the … read more »

Tech Tool of the Month: LyricsTraining – Part 1

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LyricsTraining is a device-agnostic tool to learn and practice world languages and engage multilingual learners. This free resource offers an extensive collection of videos that can each be gamified into multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions. The game removes words from songs or videos, and players need to use context clues to figure out what word fits … read more »

Tech Tool of the Month: Teach with Movies – Part 1

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Teach with Movies is a fantastic resource that offers free lesson plans and guides to complement movies across various subjects. You don’t need to register; you can immediately access the lesson guides and discussion questions. Every month, we feature specific themes that you can use as a guide to find related movies with accompanying learning … read more »

Tech Tool of the Month: Pablo – Part 1

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Pablo is a free tool that you can use to quickly and easily create and share engaging images for social media. Pablo doesn’t require registration and is very user-friendly. You can choose the shape of your image based on the platform where you plan to post it (for example, a rectangle for Twitter or a square … read more »

Tech Tool of the Month: Image Annotator – Part 1

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Image Annotator is one of the many free tools found at classtools.net. Image Annotator allows users to add virtual hotspots to images they’ve uploaded. These hot spots are clickable dots. A title, description, and URL (such as a video link) can be shared when you click on the dot. Users click to add as many … read more »