The next letter on the series is: I

iSpeech is another text-to-speech application that will convert your text (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF, blogs, RSS feeds etc.) content into audio with minimal effort, no software installation and no technical expertise. You can download it, podcast it or embed it to your blog or your website.

ImageLoop is a similar site. It also allows you to create an online version of any pdf and powerpoint presentation. You can also use both these sites as a free upload of your images.

iCue is a fun, innovative learning environment built around video from NBC News Archives. It is designed to help students with access to thousands of current and historic videos and other resources such as fun games and activities.It also has pop quizzes, game challenges and interactive activities.

Instapaper is a simple tool to bookmark the sites to read later. You can come back anytime to read it.

Iclippy captures your work from screen, camera, or scanner to an online clipboard without having to save the pictures to the local computer first.

Incredibox is a tool to discover the musical universe with “human beat box” sounds created by the artist.

iWriteLike lets you find out which writer you write like analyzing your word choice and writing style.

iCyte is a site to bookmark webpages and pdf’s exactly as you see them.

It’sAlmost is a cool countimer. Just write the date and the time to count down!

ILovePDF is a tool to merge different PDF Files or split one PDF into different documents.

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New year is on the way and here are some tools to enjoy the last days of this year with your students!

Santa has got an email address here,let's write and wait for his reply.

What about creating a custom letter for Santa? You can film yourself or upload your picture and send it to Santa's mail.

With a picture and your name, Santa can leave you a personalized video message. Try here and see it for yourself. Another alternative is also here.

You can create a personalized Santa story for your kids.Here it is.

Of course, Santa is a great social net-worker! You can follow himon Twitter.

Santa is waiting for you to chat here.

Are you on Santa's good list?? If you want to know,here you go!

Make your personalizedChristmas card and share the joy with others.

Make your online snowflake and let it snow.

What about elfing yourself. It looks fun!

Rain Deer Orchestra is here for you! Touch the noses to make your own music.

Click on Santa's advent calendar and find out new songs and activities to complete for each day.

What about playing an escape the room game with Santa? Help him escape from the room before someone sees him.

Send your greetings with an animated, customized Santa to others,it's here.

You can also create animated and personalized e-cards for others.

You can design your snowflake and watch it snow.Try it here.

What about making your own virtual snowman? You can try this one or thisor decorate your Christmas tree!

Make Santa jump, hop, dance, sing!! Write whatever you want and Santa does it for you on SimonSezSanta.

and cheers to a New Year!!

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Another school year has already started and we are back in the classrooms with brand new ideas. Here are mine if you are looking for a techie-start to the new year and some first month activities using technology in your lessons.

Symfaceis a cute tool to express your emotions changing the face expression of an animated emoticon and writing why you feel like that. When you finish, you can tweet, get the link and share it with others. Children can create their own symfaces and talk about their feelings on coming back to school and how they feel about their classes, lessons.

We can also useWordle and it's alternatives for different activities. We can create a word cloud using the children's name to welcome them in the classroom or we can create a word cloud of our classroom rules. Children can create their own wordles about themselves including their ages, family, hobbies etc. and they can share and talk about them in the classroom. This can be a good icebreaker for the first month.

Voki is another famous edtech tool that we can use in the classroom. We can create a voki avatar talking about herself and we can ask or assign kids to create their own vokis. If they can't do it in the classroom, they write their text in the class and create their online avatars at home. We can also create a classroom mascot/puppet,and children can ask it some questions. We can use text-to-speech application of voki and answer the questions of the kids.

We can create a collaborative online board usingWallwisher or Linoit.Children can add their pictures and add their text about their summer holiday. They can also write about themselves and in the classroom we can read each note and try to guess who that person is.

Tricider is a brainstorming tool. You create a topic or ask a question and ask kids to answer and brainstorm on the ideas. They can also vote for each other's statements or they can go against them writing why. It can be a good tool to talk about the classroom rules and how to improve English.

Penzu is a tool to keep an online diary. Children can start writing about their first weeks and they can keep it until the last day.

Fotobabble is a tool to record your voices for your pictures. Children can draw a picture about their feelings of the school or about themselves, then upload it to Fotobable recording their voices. They can share them in the class and learn about each other.

Photopeach is a tool that lets you make slideshow quiz using your pictures, adding captions and music. We can create a slideshow quiz for our kids about school, rules, ourselves and lessons.

AcapelaTv is a text-to-speech application where there are ready flash animations that you can customize. We can create an animation using this tool that is talking about what we will be doing on that day.

Bubble.us is a collaborative brainstorming and a mind-mapping tool. We can brainstorm and create mind map of the classroom rules, our hobbies, the topics that we are going to cover this year.

We can create different types of quizzes for our kids to see what they remember from last year.EasyTestMaker is a nice tool to create one.

Online surveys or polls can be an interesting and a fun way to get to know our kids better, to learn their opinions about school,learning English or what activities they enjoy doing in class.SurveyMonkey and PollDaddy can be two good choices.

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