Comprehension and Technology

Noticing Reading and Leaving Tracks of Our Thinking

• eBooks
• Google Drive
• Educreations
• Evernote
• Diigo (for expository)

 

Monitoring Comprehension

• Wiki Summarizer
• Instagrok
• Popplet
• Audioboo
• Flickr

 

Synthesizing Our Thinking

• Stixy
• Recite
• Smore
• Padlet

 

Removing Barriers to Comprehension

• Databases which read text - Encyclopedia Britannica
• Instapaper
• Readability
• TubeChop
• QuietTube
• Keyboard Commands
  • Ctrl + will enlarge everything (on a Mac, Command +)
  • Ctrl - will reduce everything (on a Mac, Command -)
  • Ctrl F will search the text.

 

Presenting our Thinking

• Blogs, such as YOUrSpace
• Animoto
• Audioboo
• Educreations

Reflecting on Text

• TitanPad
• Twitter - HootSuite
• Google Hangouts
• VoiceThread
• Lino.It