OverDrive: eBooks, Audiobooks, and Videos from your Local Library

OverDrive is an app that allows you to borrow eBooks, audiobooks, and streaming video from your library on your iPhone, iPad, Android, Chromebook, Windows Phone, Windows 8 & 10, and Kindle Fire HD. More than 30,000 libraries worldwide offer titles from OverDrive, so download the app and find your next book today!

• Available 24/7, now the library comes to you.
• No more late fees. Titles are automatically returned.
• Place holds, create wish lists, and return titles easily.
• Sync libraries, bookmarks, and recent positions across mobile devices.

I LOVE THIS APP!!!!!

ClaroSpeak: Free Word Prediction for G-Suite (formerly GAFE)

ClaroSpeak is a reading and writing Google Chrome app with high-quality text-to-speech, formatting controls, a wide range of fonts and styles, and cloud storage integration. ClaroSpeak offers the option of visual highlighting in-sync with the spoken words, a great range of color and font settings to allow for optimum reading and word prediction to help with writing.

This tool can be found in the Google App Chooser (colorful waffle in the upper left corner). Check it out!

Free Professional Development Webinars

The NYS Teacher Centers Technology Committee 

is pleased to present the

Smart Schools Bond Act Support Series

In 2014, New York State enacted the Smart Schools Bond Act, which allocated funds for New York schools to purchase technology and strengthen infrastructure. This Act gave NYS educators access to new technology with no guidance on how to implement it effectively into instruction. NYS Teacher Centers are offering over fifty professional development webinars in the fall of 2016 to showcase exemplary technological resources available, and the best practices for using these resources to increase student achievement.

Dates:               September 27- November 22, 2016

Times:              Varied, see schedule

Cost:                 Free

Registration:    Online, see the link below for more information

All webinars are open to administrators, teachers, and paraprofessionals in New York State.  Participants may take as few or as many webinars as they wish.

CTLE professional development certificates are available with subsequent work and small registration fee. (See page 16 for details.)

* Link to catalog with more information:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxCzn08wyH7kdkhXdTdJcFlxcGs/view

 Questions? Contact Carol Weintraub, Director, InterCounty Teacher Center

intercountytc@gmail.com