Lingua.ly Releases a Mobile App for Learning a New Language

Lingua.ly is a free language learning service that initially launched as a Chrome app. This week Lingua.ly released an Android app (iOS com...

Speech to Text and Text to Speech In Your Web Browser

Speech recognition software can be very pricey, but adding a speech recognition option to your computer doesn't have to be expensive. He...

Scrible Releases a New Chrome Extension to Help Students Organize Their Research

Scrible  is a free service offering a nice set of tools for highlighting, annotating, and bookmarking webpages. Recently, Scrible released a...

iChrome - An iGoogle-like Option for Chrome Users

Many iGoogle alternatives have popped-up on the web over the last eighteen months or so. I was never a big iGoogle user so I didn't mis...

WikiTube Adds Videos to Wikipedia Entries

WikiTube is a nice Chrome extension that adds relevant videos to Wikipedia pages. With the extension installed and enabled just visit a Wik...

Convert Text to Speech With Announcify

Announcify is a free text to speech application that is available as a Chrome browser extension. With Announcify installed in your browser ...

Readium - Read ePub Documents in Your Browser

Readium is a free Chrome extension that enables you to view ePub files in your browser. To read an ePub in Readium you can import the file ...

Add an Image Dictionary to Chrome

Image Dictionary is a Chrome extension that enables users to right-click on a word and quickly find an image that is representative of that...

Quickly Find Definitions and Related Websites With Snapify

This week I'm taking a few days off to ski, play with my dogs, visit with friends and family, and generally recharge my batteries. If yo...

3 Browser Extensions Every Teacher Should Try

This week I'm taking a few days off to ski, play with my dogs, visit with friends and family, and generally recharge my batteries. If yo...

Right Click to Save Images and More to Google Drive

Save to Drive is a handy Google Chrome extension that makes it easy to save images, links, audio files, and video files in your Google Driv...

Realtime Board's Chrome Extension Makes Online Brainstorming Easier

Last month I tried out a promising new online brainstorming tool called Realtime Board . Realtime Board provides a blank grid on which you ...

Read & Write - An Accessibility App for Google Docs

Read & Write is a free Google Chrome Web App that increases the accessibility of the text of documents in your Google Drive account. Af...

A Handy Attribution Helper for Flickr Images

Correctly formatting Creative Commons image attributions can be a little tricky. Alan Levine (Cog Dog Blog) has developed a Chrome extensio...

Snapify - Quickly Find Definitions and Explanations

Yesterday, during my presentation for the DEN Virtual Conference I included a bunch of my favorite tools. One that I want to highlight agai...

Three Free Text to Speech Tools for Schools

Text to speech tools can make the web more accessible to some students. These three free tools can be helpful to students who need a little ...

The EasyBib Chrome Extension Evaluates Source Credibility and Generates Citations

The bibliography generation service EasyBib recently released a new Chrome extension to go along with their Android app , iOS app , and Goo...

Pixlr Grabber - A Simple Screen Capture Tool

Earlier this week I recommended Pixlr to someone who needed a quick way to resize and change the colors of an image. Pixlr offers a large s...

A To-Do List Without Opening a New Window

There is no shortage of free and simple to-do list services available on the web. One problem with many of them is that you have to open a n...

Annotary - Another Nice Bookmarking Service

Annotary is a new social bookmarking service that I started trying out this morning and so far I like it. Annotary reminds me a bit of the ...