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Open Book Source:  Pixabay For this weeks tech tip I decide to write about text to voice. This is a google chrome extension that allows you to highlight any sentence or paragraph and it will be read to you out loud. This extension is actually really helpful for writing for a couple different reasons. The first reason is that it lets your hear your story out loud which helps you know if you story flows or not. The second reason is that it will help detect any spelling or grammatical errors because it wont be read write if it is. I will also sometime use this tool when I want to kind of sit back and relax while listening to a story that we have to each week. Audiobooks really are great when your tired and lose track of your reading easily.

Snake Source:  Un-Textbook For today''s reading of the continuation of the South African Folktales, I will be talking about a story called "The White Man and Snake." In this story a white man an finds a snake that is stuck under a rock and can not get out. The white man decides that he will lift the stone which will free the snake. So the man went over to the rock and lifted up the stone but as the stone was lifted the snake went to bite the man. The man yelled at the snaked telling it to stop and asked why the snake would bite him if he freed it. The snake and man went to ask for advice from a hyena and the hyena said what does it matter if the snake bites you. The hyena was not any help so they went to a jackal and asked for his advice. The jackal then said he didn't believe the snake was ever stuck so the snake wanted to prove it and all of them headed back to the rock at which the snake was stuck. The snake then went to the spot and the man put the rock ba...

Jackal Source:  Pixabay For this weeks readings I chose to read about South African Folk tales. Within the folktales I am going to focus on the story "The Lion, The Jackal, and The Rope." In this story a lion kills a eland but wants a drink of water down the hill so the lion as the jackal to watch the eland for him, but not to eat it. The jackal agrees and the lion goes to get a drink. The jackal went back on his agreement and the jackal and his wife ate the eland while the lion was gone. When the lion returns he ask the jackal for a rope to help climb back up the hill. The jackal and his wife trick the lion and give it a weak rope. So as the lion was climbing up the jackal pull the rope hard and it snapped causing the lion to roll down the hill. The jackal hits a hide making it seem like he his hitting his wife to the lion making the lion feel bad and tell the jackal not to do it and to try again. The jackal does the same trick two more times and on the third time the l...