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The A.T.TIPScast: Assistive Technology Tools In Public Schools is a podcast about using technology to help students meet their educational goals. Each episode features at least one "A.T.TIP" that can be used to differentiate and individualize the learning process. Christopher Bugaj, the host of the podcast, is an assistive technology specialist, speech-language pathologist, ISTE author, and online mentor.

"The new Voki Educational Web Site includes ideas, networking, and explanations that bring talking avatars to the educational stage. At first glance it appears to be void of advertising, quite a feat since Voki For Education is still free. Next, the educational page has resources that will get everyone in education talking. One resource to check out is the important facts for education. As in all Web 2.0 sites used in education, this is an important read. Next, you may wish to view a collection of lesson plans that include thoughts for using Voki in the classroom. Ideas include all subjects and levels from primary school to the university classroom. Another valuable area is the Teacher Corner."

A nice place to learn everything you need to know about all of Google Products. You can search by product or product.

A nice place to learn everything you need to know about all of Google Products. You can search by product or product.

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Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation is committed to educating all children through the principles of UDL. Contains Cartoon of man shoveling the ramp.

Ramven has released Mobile Web Apps for informative and productivity. Our Mobile Web Apps include financial calculators, unit converters and many more categories. These Mobile Web Apps are light weight and support all major mobile, tablet, smart phone and desktop web browsers.

First of all, let me start with the fact that Andriod Phones do not come with Accessibility Options!! These free Apps have to be downloaded from the Andriod Market. I will be posting the names of Apps that work well with a brief summary below.

"Free Online Collections Available for Use by All Students The following on-line resources may be able to provide free online books in Audio format. Assistive Media AudioBooksforFree.com Curriki Free Classic Audio Books LearnOutLoud.com Free Directory LibriVox Lit2Go LoudLit.org MIT OpenCourseWare OER Commons Online Audio Stories Podcasts at the iTunes Store Signed Stories (audiobooks that are also signed) TeachOutLoud"

AppHappy writes about Tapose Collaborative Content Creation App All of the tools are hidden until you want to use them so there is no clutter taking over the screen as you work. When using the drawing function, turn on wrist protection so that they can write or draw in a way that is most comfortable without throwing off the touch screen input. can draw, highlight, type, add sticky notes, video, or images to the journal. favorite feature: multitasking within the journal

Differentiating instruction is a time-tested way of thinking about meeting students' needs as they make progress toward achievement or learning targets.  Differentiation is an elegant mindset that suggests to teachers a framework that permits them to engage students while focusing on learning results, and digital technologies offer many opportunities to differentiate instruction in meaningful ways.  However, differentiating instruction takes a concerted planning effort on our parts as teachers and teacher educators. This is especially so as we develop a mindset that differentiation can be effective. In this post, I propose a three-phase approach to planning differentiated instruction: Where do we start planning for differentiated instruction with technology, What are considerations for who we teach, what we teach, and how we plan? How do I put it all together?

VocabAhead provides a full-brain learning approach to understanding and mastering tough English words especially those appearing in standardized tests such as SAT, ACT and GRE. Students, Teachers and Vocab enthusiasts of all ages find this site extremely useful. Twitter ID: @VocabAhead

Website with links to interactive sites for  all different subjects,  works great on computers or on Smartboard IWB.  Not sure how they will work on mobile devices 

Darwin Reader is the first accessible Android book reader designed specifically for blind, low vision, and print disabled users. The app fully supports DAISY formatted audio and text books, and directly integrates with Benetech Bookshare and Librivox to make downloading books amazingly simple. Read books using your preferred interface. For blind and low vision users, the app is completely navigable with the arrow keys. All menus are fully vocalized. Users with dyslexia and other print disabilities can quickly navigate by tapping the stylized graphics on the screen.

used to be called Snapp4 kids * We have create and launched a new app tool call Insignio. This tool brings search to a whole new level, you can search any of the itunes stores, our database of apps and our database of Android apps all at once, you can create list of apps and publish them for other to see and you can save searches

Unique Learning System is the ONLY online, dynamic, standards-based curriculum specifically designed for special learners. Subscribers download monthly instructional thematic units of study. Each unit contains 30 lesson plans and downloadable materials that teachers can readily implement into classroom learning activities. All materials are created using SymbolStix graphics. The unit lesson plans define three levels of differentiated tasks to accommodate the diversity of learners with significant disabilities.