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Article on using Photo Story and Audacity for kids' projects.  Kids did storytelling and learned the power of their voice.

Furbles are attribute creatures that can be configured by shape, color, and number of eyes.  Use these shapes to interactively create pie and bar charts online for free.  This program can also be purchased which provides for other types of charts and built-in activities.  The free demo version allows for just explore mode.

Content for chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, and physics. Just the right amount of text on each page. Choose from a set of subtopics. Good navigation.

Free downloadable graphing calculator

verbal mini-tutorials on algebra.  Good for working out a single type of problem, but doesn't give the background information and all explanation is verbal - no accompanying number-lines or other visual tools to help understand.

online database of UDL resources (Kurzweil, Clicker, etc) categorized by grade (Canada).  Provides and example of a curriculum sharing database as well as examples of resources.

Collection of teacher-made powerpoint presentations that are in the public domain, meaning you can edit them to suit your purposes.  A wide variety of topics including subject areas, games, and all grade levels

This free plug-in enables text in any Microsoft Word document to be read aloud. As a useful bonus, WordTalk also comes with a talking spell checker and thesaurus. The simplicity of WordTalk's toolbar makes it highly accessible, and the toolbar's functions are easy to configure for individual preferences. To further enhance accessibility, the software comes pre-programmed with keyboard commands. (--from Paul Hami's blog)

This site publishes student work online.  The link bookmarked here takes you right to the submission guidelines.  See the navigation bar on the left to read the articles submitted by students.

THis is just a test.

This is just a test.

Supported text including navigational, explanatory, and other supports.

Kids can read funny poems and rate them.  There are also lessons for writing poetry.

Wiki used as an example of a collaborative writing project at Closing the Gap 2007, PC-15 "Digial Literacies" with Denise DeCoste and Linda Bastiani Wilson.  Participants of this workshop collaborated to write definitions of supported text and provide examples of the 11 elements of supported text.

Blog used as an outline for the preconference session at Closing the Gap PC-15 "Digital Literacies" with Denise DeCoste and Linda Bastiani Wilson.

This link takes you to the advanced search page which allows you to search for material based on keyword and grade level. You can choose to omit lesson plans in your search, making it more likely for you to find websites that you can take material from or use directly with students.

About 700 books with full text and pictures.  A better site than bookshare for younger students.  Includes easy readers and picture books.

Discusses the importance of true integration of technology into the curriculum, rather than treating technology as another subject area to teach.

"OKAPI! is a web-based application that allows you to enter a text sample and to format that sample as a set of Examiner and Student Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA) reading probes. The application also computes a readability index for the sample."