Several people asked me about places that provide free web hosting space (so that they can FTP their podcasts there and then link to them in a blog). Here are some places that do this: GeoCities (part of Yahoo) –
Creative Commons content sources
Gabcast! Mobile Musings #3 Here are some good resources for content that is distributed under Creative Commons licenses: Yahoo’s Creative Commons search tool Creative Commons – web site and search tool Wikimedia Commons
Text-to-speech blog-to-podcast tool
I just saw the Talkr tool on Will Richardson’s great blog. It takes the text from a blog and converts it to an audio file via text-to-speech. I can see all kinds of applications for this in education to help
Audio ebooks
There are getting to be a good number of sites offering free audio books now. Here are a few: LibriVox ManyBooks (This is also a good site for regular text ebooks.) Spoken Alexandria Project Telltale Weekly Gutenberg: Audio Books Project
Printing without actually printing
I just attended a training on a very useful piece of software, Accelerated Writer, which we are going to be integrating with handhelds in a large middle school project I’m helping to coordinate. The program requires a great deal of
Free Constitution Resources
K12 Handhelds is pleased to make available these FREE electronic resources for Constitution Day*. These resources include an interactive ebook with embedded review questions, a timeline, a linked glossary, and more; an annotated copy of the Constitution and its amendments;