Thu - May 17, 2007
Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh
Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Version
4 New Features
Kurzweil 3000™ is the
premier reading, writing and learning software for struggling students. Because
Kurzweil 3000 is content independent, teachers in elementary, middle and
secondary schools alike use it to help students succeed in the classroom
regardless of their curriculum.
Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh is
designed specifically for Macintosh computers with a simple, graphic user
interface that appeals to a wide range of students from elementary school to
college.
• Universal Binary
Support for Maximum Performance
• Create Audio File
Feature with iTunes Integration
• Read the Web using
Mozilla Firefox
• Add Bubble Notes for
Powerful Instructional Support
• Customizable
Toolbars
• New Document Navigation
Tools
• New and Improved
Text-to-Speech Voices
• Circle-the-Answer
Option for Tests
• Writing and Editing
Enhancements
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Thu - February 22, 2007
Wreak Havoc! - Can you raed tihs?
Can You Raed Tihs was developed to help you
explore the interesting phenomenon that people do not look at a word one letter
at a time but at the word as a whole. If the first and last letters are left
unchanged, the middle letters can be "scrambled" without making the word much
more difficult to
read.
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Tue - January 23, 2007
Talk the Talk: Slang of 65 American subcultures
http://www.subculturetalk.com/
The first and only book of subculture slang, covering 65 subcultures and thousands of terms, is now available in bookstores!
The first and only book of subculture slang, covering 65 subcultures and thousands of terms, is now available in bookstores!
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Sat - February 12, 2005
Early Reading For Older Students
Spinout Stories - Blue
Pack
The Spinout Stories CDs, and associated books, have been specifically designed to promote literacy among older students, in the upper primary and early secondary years, who have reading difficulties.
Two packs are currently available - Red and Blue. Each pack contains a CD-ROM with four stories on high-interest age related topics such as building sites, diesel engines, surfing, crocodiles, gorillas and dreaming. The blue pack contains The Best Mechanic, Diesels and Dirt, Reptile Zoo and Saltwater Crocodiles. In addition to the CDs the hardest levels of the stories can also be purchased separately in book form, to further support the use of the software.
Each Spinout Story has three different reading levels, of which the hardest has optional hypertext links to further information at an even higher reading level. There is also a Teacher's Guide and a set of printable worksheets. The software includes teacher controls, optional tracking facilities to monitor students' progress, extension activities related to the text, and a worksheet generator.
The Spinout Stories CDs, and associated books, have been specifically designed to promote literacy among older students, in the upper primary and early secondary years, who have reading difficulties.
Two packs are currently available - Red and Blue. Each pack contains a CD-ROM with four stories on high-interest age related topics such as building sites, diesel engines, surfing, crocodiles, gorillas and dreaming. The blue pack contains The Best Mechanic, Diesels and Dirt, Reptile Zoo and Saltwater Crocodiles. In addition to the CDs the hardest levels of the stories can also be purchased separately in book form, to further support the use of the software.
Each Spinout Story has three different reading levels, of which the hardest has optional hypertext links to further information at an even higher reading level. There is also a Teacher's Guide and a set of printable worksheets. The software includes teacher controls, optional tracking facilities to monitor students' progress, extension activities related to the text, and a worksheet generator.
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Fri - December 10, 2004
OED December 2004 Newsletter
December 2004
Newsletter
http://oed.com/newsletters/2004-12/
Jemma Best, Newsletter Editor and Senior Assistant Editor, OED
The OED staff is mainly composed of many editors and researchers, and OED News often focuses on aspects of their work. This issue, however, contains articles written by two people in more unusual roles.
Beverley Hunt reflects on her first year as the OED Archivist, a position which requires her to engage with the OED's past and present, and also to prepare for its future.
Abigail Reynolds was the OED Artist in Residence for the academic year 2003-4, during which time she spent two days each week working alongside lexicographers in the OED offices. Here, she describes how the residency, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, inspired her work The Frozen Sea.
This issue of OED News is my first as editor. I'd like to thank Peter Gilliver, who has been such an excellent editor and contributor over the past three years. Peter will be a hard act to follow!
This newsletter is available to download
.
(To view the file you need the
Adobe Acrobat
Reader.)
OED News
December 2004 Newsletter
Introducing the OED archivist
The Frozen Sea
Appeals
Interesting antedatings
Quotable quotes
OED news by e-mail
Newsletter archive
Contribute to the OED
Features
The Big Read
http://oed.com/newsletters/2004-12/
Jemma Best, Newsletter Editor and Senior Assistant Editor, OED
The OED staff is mainly composed of many editors and researchers, and OED News often focuses on aspects of their work. This issue, however, contains articles written by two people in more unusual roles.
Beverley Hunt reflects on her first year as the OED Archivist, a position which requires her to engage with the OED's past and present, and also to prepare for its future.
Abigail Reynolds was the OED Artist in Residence for the academic year 2003-4, during which time she spent two days each week working alongside lexicographers in the OED offices. Here, she describes how the residency, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, inspired her work The Frozen Sea.
This issue of OED News is my first as editor. I'd like to thank Peter Gilliver, who has been such an excellent editor and contributor over the past three years. Peter will be a hard act to follow!
This newsletter is available to download
.
(To view the file you need the
Adobe Acrobat
Reader.)OED News
December 2004 Newsletter
Introducing the OED archivist
The Frozen Sea
Appeals
Interesting antedatings
Quotable quotes
OED news by e-mail
Newsletter archive
Contribute to the OED
Features
The Big Read
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Tue - October 5, 2004
Soliloquy Reading Assistant
http://www.reading-assistant.com/index.htm
The Electronic Reading Assistant for Improving Reading Fluency
Soliloquy Reading Assistant works like a classroom reading aide—reading stories aloud to model fluency and listening as the student reads aloud. Using speech recognition technology, it provides intervention when the student struggles and gives help with pronunciations and word meanings. Soliloquy Reading Assistant provides teachers with a valuable tool that allows students to practice oral reading independently—effectively, efficiently, and economically.
Soliloquy Reading Assistant is one of the few software products that directly addresses the fluency standard in Reading First, the national initiative in the No Child Left Behind Act that aims to enable all students to become successful early readers
The Electronic Reading Assistant for Improving Reading Fluency
Soliloquy Reading Assistant works like a classroom reading aide—reading stories aloud to model fluency and listening as the student reads aloud. Using speech recognition technology, it provides intervention when the student struggles and gives help with pronunciations and word meanings. Soliloquy Reading Assistant provides teachers with a valuable tool that allows students to practice oral reading independently—effectively, efficiently, and economically.
Soliloquy Reading Assistant is one of the few software products that directly addresses the fluency standard in Reading First, the national initiative in the No Child Left Behind Act that aims to enable all students to become successful early readers
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Thu - August 19, 2004
VocMac 2004 0521
http://www.vocmac.de/
VocMac is a trilingual electronic 17,000-word dictionary dedicated to "The Jargon of French, German and American Computer Magazines". VocMac's time-limited test version and its read-only student version can easily be upgraded using activation keys you can securely order online.
VocMac is a trilingual electronic 17,000-word dictionary dedicated to "The Jargon of French, German and American Computer Magazines". VocMac's time-limited test version and its read-only student version can easily be upgraded using activation keys you can securely order online.
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Mon - August 16, 2004
wordIQ.com- Encyclopedia, dictionary, ebooks and more
http://www.wordiq.com/
Am interesting aspect of this site is within the ebooks section, each word of each book is linked to the corresponding entry in the dictionary. Very nice.
wordIQ.com is a comprehensive and searchable reference tool on the web. We offer search results from a diverse array of dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, and other valuable references. Our website is completely free and non-profit. Any advertisements you see on our website is used completely towards server and maintenance costs necessary to operate the website.
Our goal, since our inception, has been to provide a valuable and free learning tool for students, parents, and teachers alike. We also hope to improve the literacy rate in the English-speaking world by providing useful tools that will get young adults interested in reading and learning. Our goals are noble and we hope to accomplish these goals thru the constant addition of new features and tools on wordIQ.com and with your support.
Am interesting aspect of this site is within the ebooks section, each word of each book is linked to the corresponding entry in the dictionary. Very nice.
wordIQ.com is a comprehensive and searchable reference tool on the web. We offer search results from a diverse array of dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, and other valuable references. Our website is completely free and non-profit. Any advertisements you see on our website is used completely towards server and maintenance costs necessary to operate the website.
Our goal, since our inception, has been to provide a valuable and free learning tool for students, parents, and teachers alike. We also hope to improve the literacy rate in the English-speaking world by providing useful tools that will get young adults interested in reading and learning. Our goals are noble and we hope to accomplish these goals thru the constant addition of new features and tools on wordIQ.com and with your support.
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Sat - August 14, 2004
FREE computer and Internet books online
http://hogan-productions.com/books/
Currently listing almost 500 titles
This database contains links to FREE books available online.
All our titles are full-text online editions unless otherwise indicated.
Click on the title to view the free full-text online edition of a book.
Currently listing almost 500 titles
This database contains links to FREE books available online.
All our titles are full-text online editions unless otherwise indicated.
Click on the title to view the free full-text online edition of a book.
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Sat - March 27, 2004
Free Culture online and to take away
Lessig's new book, Free Culture is available online as a gratis,
Creative-Commons-licensed file, under terms that allow for the creation of
derivative
works.
AKMA has proposed a hell of a derivative work: he's inviting any blogger who cares to to read a chapter aloud, recording it and posting it, so that a distributed audiobook of the book will be produced. I may take a crack at a chapter myself this week.
Heck, we could have duelling chapters; which version of chapter 5 do you like, Accordion Guy’s or Jenny the Shifted Librarian’s? (Disclaimer: I just typed their names in there. They haven’t offered or anything. Yet.) (Another disclaimer: When I went to Jenny’s just now to get her link, I saw that she had the same idea — and we didn’t even talk about it Wednesday night!)
Link
from boingboing permanent link to this entry
AKMA has proposed a hell of a derivative work: he's inviting any blogger who cares to to read a chapter aloud, recording it and posting it, so that a distributed audiobook of the book will be produced. I may take a crack at a chapter myself this week.
Heck, we could have duelling chapters; which version of chapter 5 do you like, Accordion Guy’s or Jenny the Shifted Librarian’s? (Disclaimer: I just typed their names in there. They haven’t offered or anything. Yet.) (Another disclaimer: When I went to Jenny’s just now to get her link, I saw that she had the same idea — and we didn’t even talk about it Wednesday night!)
Link
from boingboing permanent link to this entry
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A supplement to every library catalogue on the planet
http://www.freefulltext.com/
FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists. The design of this site is optimized for users seeking specific articles for which they already have the citation. If some of the articles you need are not available for free online, you may obtain them for a fee through a document delivery service, such as Pinpoint Documents. If you wish to "search" for articles on a particular topic, please use a bibliographic database such as PubMed. This site does not attempt to list ALL periodicals on the Internet, only those which offer free full-text content. Titles will be removed from this list if they cease to offer any free full-text content.
A more detailed description of this site is available in the FAQ list.
FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists. The design of this site is optimized for users seeking specific articles for which they already have the citation. If some of the articles you need are not available for free online, you may obtain them for a fee through a document delivery service, such as Pinpoint Documents. If you wish to "search" for articles on a particular topic, please use a bibliographic database such as PubMed. This site does not attempt to list ALL periodicals on the Internet, only those which offer free full-text content. Titles will be removed from this list if they cease to offer any free full-text content.
A more detailed description of this site is available in the FAQ list.
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Thu - March 4, 2004
Thomas Jefferson Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html
The complete Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 27,000 documents. This is the largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world. Document types in the collection as a whole include correspondence, commonplace books, financial account books, and manuscript volumes. The collection is organized into ten series or groupings, ranging in date from 1606 to 1827. ...
Well documented are his two administrations as president from 1801 through 1809, when he engineered the purchase of the Louisiana territory and maintained American neutrality in the conflict between France and Great Britain that led to the War of 1812. Correspondence, drawings, maps, and notes document the building of Washington, D.C. ...
In its online presentation, the Thomas Jefferson Papers comprises approximately 83,000 images
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Free Online Full-text Articles
as of
3/3/04:
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
(List limited to journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press)
HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of 3/3/04, we are assisting in the online publication of 696,457 free full-text articles and 1,727,121 total articles.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
(List limited to journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press)
HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of 3/3/04, we are assisting in the online publication of 696,457 free full-text articles and 1,727,121 total articles.
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Just in Tokyo, a (free) printed guide to Tokyo
http://links.net/vita/trip/japan/tokyo/guide/onscreen.html
Just In Tokyo, a cheap, handy, printed guide to Tokyo. The print edition is no longer for sale; though you can look at all the hype here.
Enjoy the September 2002 version - download 750k pdf. Most of the material is about adjusting to Japan, less about specific restaurants to eat in. It's an overview experience.
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Thu - February 26, 2004
Teenreads
http://www.teenreads.com/
Teenreads.com bring teens info and features about their favorite authors, books, series and characters. We are a part of The Book Report Network, a group of websites founded in 1996 that share thoughtful book reviews, compelling features, in-depth author profiles and interviews, excerpts of the hottest new releases, literary games and contests, and more with readers every week. Teenreads.com is THE place online for teens to talk about their fave books --- and find the hippest new titles!
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