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"As details about iOS 9 were released by Apple, I realised I was thankful that everything looked the same and then intrigued by the new features. 'Slide Over', 'Picture in Picture' and 'Split View' are very welcome additions. I'd also note how the changes to the keyboard will improve the experience for heavier users of iPad and iPhone. Significant features for schools to consider include (Source) :"

Edistorm takes the metaphor of sticky notes on a boardroom wall and brings it online allowing anyone - anywhere to brainstorm with only a web browser. Each user picks their favorite ideas and Edistorm brings the best ones forward.

"CliffsNotes CramCasts are the fun and free way to review popular literary classics on the go."

Notes from sessions at nais09

Very nice discussion about storyboarding.

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Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning David H. Rose & Anne Meyer ASCD, 2002 Book reveiw/summary and study notes

Presentation done by Joe Dale at the SSAT Annual Languages Conference 2008. Checkout the links in the show notes on the blog.

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"Changing the Culture of Schools: Creating Conditions that Promote Student Achievement"

SpokenText is an online text to speech converter. Using it you can easily create audio recordings of any text content. We currently support English, French, Spanish and German text to speech conversion. You can use our site to record books, articles, web pages, your papers class notes or any other text content you want to have available to you in audio format. So that you can listen while you commute or exercise.

All schools are probably teaching many of the information literacy skills found in this body of lessons. Usually, individual teachers will tackle the process of plugging the gaps in their curriculum when an issue or opportunity arises. A sixth grade teacher may see the need to review note taking, while a high school teacher needs to re-introduce Boolean operators and review Citing Sources. Eventually, schools and districts will attempt to make sure the skills covered in these lessons are integrated into the K-12 curriculum.

Twine's features presented in bullets: 1. Social bookmarking service, 2. Central storage for documents, images, videos and other data (from your machine or from the web, 3. Media viewable inside Twine, bookmarked or uploaded. (videos, images, etc.), 4. Collaborative platform with wiki-like editing/built in text editor, 5. User-created groups with discussion boards, 6. Intelligent analysis of added content (more on this below), 7. A recommendation engine to help discover information & people relevant to you and your interests Do note that this list is not complete