Current Text to Speech apps for IOS and Android appliances

Best iPad/iPhone TEXT to SPEECH APPS

Web Reader HD (IOS app that reads web pages directly from the page)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/web-reader-hd-text-to-speech/id376528713?mt=8

Into Words (all in one spelling check, word prediction and text to speech app)

https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/intowords/id575879444?mt=8

Dream Voice (text to speech synthesis app with high quality voices)

https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/voice-dream-reader/id496177674?mt=8

Best TEXT to SPEECH APPS for ANDROID

Into Words (all in one spelling check, word prediction and text to speech app)

https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/intowords/id575879444?mt=8

@Voice Read Aloud ((text to speech synthesis app)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hyperionics.avar

PROVIVUS - A SITE WITH MANY PRACTICAL TIPS FOR STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS

Recommend this site to parents, teachers and students. 

It contains many practical tips to help young people with 

learning impairments. It's in Swedish but Google translate 

should be able to fix it into your preferred language.

http://www.provivus.se/tipsbanken/page.php?pid=1

iThoughts mindmap app for iPad

If you like using mindmaps to help you better understand a new subject or to revise before a test then I would recommend you use an app like iThoughts for the iPad or iPhone.

If you have a loan iPad from Rödabergsskolan or your own private iPad come to me and I will help you download it for free.

Happy mindmapping!

:)

Nick

Quizlet.com IS FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!!!!

I have discovered a wonderful app called Quizlet that is used as a revision tool for students.

Teachers and students can make Q and A revision material on any subject  topic.

These are then converted to flash cards multi choice question papers and games.

Mr Jungvig (our science teacher) and I will be showing students how they can use Quizlet over the next few weeks.

Iit’s really easy to use and there are many sets of quizzes that other teachers and students 

have made that are free to use.

Quizlet can be used on a computer, iPhone/iPad or Android smartphones.

Here comes some links to Quizlet:

http://quizlet.com/ 

http://quizlet.com/mobile

Here comes a link to a quiz I made last night about hydrocarbons that Year 8 strdents in b and en classes have been studying this week with Mr Jungvig.

http://quizlet.com/57224889/hydrocarbons-flash-cards/

Hope you find it useful!!

:)

Nick

Best Maths Video Lessons in English for Rödaberg students from Kahn Academy

And here comes my favourite Maths Video site for students studying the subject in English.

Khan Academy:

http://www.khanacademy.org/

(The below links do not, sadly, open at the correct pages. You will have to navigate from the Kahn Academy home page to Maths/Third Grade etc )

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-third-grade-math

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fourth-grade-math

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fifth-grade-math

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-seventh-grade-math

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-eighth-grade-math

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry

and many more ....!!!!!

GOOD LUCK !!!!!

Dalles matte sajt/Dalles Maths Site

/http://www.dalles-matte.se/hogstadiets-matematik/

The above link takes you to a site with Maths video lessons from a Swedish teacher (Daniel Nilsson).

Quite a good site if you would like to revise Maths concepts

- especially for our bilingual students at  Rödaberg who study Maths in Swedish and with a Swedish teacher.

Why singing is good for our bodies and minds.

Singing Changes Your Brain and Keeps Your Body in Shape.

Group singing has been scientifically proven to lower stress, relieve anxiety, and elevate endorphins

Read more: 

http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/16/singing-changes-your-brain/

It's also very good to keep our hearts healthy!!
Read more:
http://www.heartresearch.org.uk/hearthealth/singinggood