📯 January's Featured Resources 📯

🤖 Featured AI Tool

MyLens AI

This FREE artificial intelligence tool will generate timelines on any subject. I entered "Reality Television" into the text bar and ended up with a wonderful visual history of how reality television has evolved since the 1950's. Not only did the generated timeline include key reality TV milestones, but it also included exemplary shows in each decade. Each timeline entry included a brief blurp about the television show's history and a theme-related emoji. Try it out!

👓 Reading Mode 👓

Google has added a new accessibility feature to Google Chrome to minimize distractions and enhance user experience while browsing the web. To the left of your Google avatar, you will see a Side Panel icon which contains helpful tools while reading online (reading list, bookmarks, history, reading mode, and search). "Reading mode" eliminates the page's distracting ads, videos, and images, allowing readers to simply focus on the text. The width of the Side Panel can be adjusted by dragging the two small vertical lines that appear on the left border ↔️. Further make your reading experience easier by:

Selecting an alternate typeface and font size
Adjusting letter and sentence spacing
Choose a different background color

Improve Your English PronunciationWhen words sound different in isolation vs. in a sentence, look up the pronunciation first in a dictionary, then use https://youglish.com

YouGlish 🗣️

YouGlish is a free website that uses YouTube videos to demonstrate how to correctly pronounce words in English. To use the site, type a word in the Search bar that you want to hear the English pronunciation of. YouGlish will find videos with your selected word and start the videos at the exact location where the word is spoken. A video transcript will appear below the video. Click on the right triangle ▶️ (forward) to move on to the next video with the selected word. Distringuish between American, British, Australian, Canadian, Irish, Scottish, and New Zealand English. When prompted, YouGlish found 10,251 videos with the American pronunciation of "toilet" and 379 videos with the Australian pronunciation of "toilet" for me to listen to. Towards the bottom of the page, YouGlish offers "Tips to Improve Your English Pronunciation."

💣 Powerful Teaching Templates 💣

Powerful Teaching, Unleash the Science of Learning by Pooja Agarwal and Patrice Bain is recommended reading for all teachers. The book focuses on four "power tools" to support student learning: Retrieval practice, Spacing, Interleaving, and Feedback-driven metacognition. The book is supplemented by a blog site that offers valuable teaching tips and free resources. Retrieval practice boosts student learning by pulling info out of their heads, rather than focusing on cramming info into their heads. What makes the below activities so effective is that they are designed to promote student reflection and require minimal preparation. NO grading. File ➡️ Make a copy. Edit to include a topic/concept.