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With education technology emerging at a fast and furious pace, outfitting a classroom can make for an intriguing puzzle. We asked two top-notch district tech gurus. how to get beyond the gadgets and put the emphasis back on learning. They sketched out two integrated, cost-effective implementations that do just that.

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.

On this site you can find a series of PowerPoint stories featuring the characters Reg and Lellow by Chris Roland. The stories have been designed to help young children learn English and can be used in class with pre-school, infant and primary levels.  As they have been written by an English teacher, they also have a  number of pedagogical features to aid language acquisition, make in class storytelling as easy as possible for the teacher and story content easily integrated into schools' English curriculum.

Community for integrating iPhone and iPod touch in schools.

ORLANDO, January 15, 2010 - At the Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC), the non-profit education researcher and publisher MIND Research Institute announced their latest innovations in elementary mathematics education. MIND Research, winner of the EdNet Pioneer Award in 2008, previewed their new web-delivered Integrated Instructional System featuring their neuroscience based instructional math software for K-5. This announcement was coupled with the introduction of their new ST Math®: Fluency software for basic math facts.

Spatial intellegence and Math

eduTecher was created in late 2007. The website's main purpose is to help educators and schools around the world effectively integrate technology, including the wonderful tools on the vast World Wide Web, into the classroom. eduTecher provides links to thousands of Web Tools and provides concise information on how these tools may be useful in the classroom setting. The site's goal is simple: contribute to the academic world, without charging membership fees for the users or promoting specific software and hardware products through commercial advertising.

lower cost ($1149-$2995) line of integrated (PC-based) AAC devices

"Teaching AAC: Reports from the Classroom This unique approach by Pati King-DeBaun was developed to systematically teach communication skills to children who are nonverbal. Highlights will include the Integrated Model of Communication Instruction.Learn more about this model and watch classrooms and students progress. Highlights of this blog will include a peek into the Communican Classroom at The Standing Tall Program in New York City."

I think it may be worth noting that AVTS is not written by anybody connected with AAC or autism or special education or even disability, as far as I can tell. Whether that's relevant to the application's future is something we will only know in the future, but I have more faith in the integrity and the security for the future applications where the writers have a strong connection to disability in some way. Looking at the other applications by this company they're things like "Ringtones Uncensored" and other apps which use text-to-speech for amusement rather than utility. That doesn't mean the app is bad or that it won't be supported going forward, but personally it gives me much less faith in the app's long-term support.

EASe Games, the first PC video game series designed especially for children with auditory and balance issues. EASe Games are not only fun to play, but stimulate a child's auditory/vestibular and visual/balance sensory inputs, and help teach them to manage noise and regulate balance.

I am a special education technology integration teacher at a school for students with disabilities. I created this blog is a resource for educators and parents. The blog will review apps and tools for the IPod Touch, Interactive whiteboard, laptops, and more.

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