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This is a collaborative project to create an open-source electronic book reader that will support various formats including DAISY and EPUB content. Currently the software is limited to supporting DAISY 2.02 format 'Talking Books'. DAISY / EPUB reader requires a minimum of version 1.5 of Android (also known as 'cupcake'). When the application is installed on a device with version 1.6 or later with TalkBack installed, the navigation of files and folders on the SD card is spoken. The application can be downloaded from the Downloads section of the project site: http://code.google.com/p/android-daisy-epub-reader/downloads/list.

Apportunities with iPads is a forum originally designed for 20 teachers and parents in the state of Minnesota who are involved in an iPad Project with children who have deaf-blindness. The intent of this forum is to establish a tool that will allow teachers and parents within this project to connect and share experiences about the use of the iPad as an instructional tool with this population of learners. The broader intent of this forum is to weave together the ever-changing face of app use within the field of special education and students with severe and multiple disabilities.

Youth identified with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have deficits in social competence that can lead to problematic social behavior and social isolation. This can lead to a lower quality of life, as well as deficits in other developmental areas such as language and cognition. The iSocial project undertakes research and development to test and advance a set of principles and methods to enable and enhance social interaction for individuals with ASD. The long term aims of the project are to implement a virtual world that supports positive social interaction, enables learning of social competence with transfer to other settings, enables learning of other academic and workforce preparation subjects for youth with social deficits, and supports a community of educators, parents and youth as they address the needs of youth with ASD.

University of Georgia researchers have received more than a million dollars to develop a mobile phone application for people with autism and developmental disabilities. The i-Skills would hold videos to help individuals communicate and live more independently. Researchers say it will be like a cookbook for everyday tasks. They plan to involve people with disabilities at every level of the three-year project.

Stevens Institute of Technology Online Project - Environment - identify lifeforms, create database, and share information, with other students elsewhere.

Studies show that kids can grasp concepts quicker after using interactive projection systems. They enable kids to stay focused and enjoy lessons taught in the classroom. Kids also love playing games on interactive floors. Have you ever tried using a floor-based projection system in your classrooms? How did it work out?

AT4ASD (Assistive Technology for Autism Spectrum Disorders) is a research project studying the iPad 2 and Autism Spectrum Disorders

APTE's new Literacy Suite is a collection of applications & teacher resources designed to meet the needs of visual learners. The program is aimed at special education. The applications provide students with a platform to create their own projects with words, pictures, & videos. [ISTE Learning & Leading With Technology, June/July 2010, Vol. 37 No. 8]

MobileASL is a video compression project at the University of Washington with the goal of making wireless cell phone communication through sign language a reality in the U.S.

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World. The Khan Academy is all about using video to explain the world, so what better way to explain the Khan Academy than through videos. If you watch four or five of the videos below, you should have a pretty good idea of how we got started and how we hope to empower everyone, everywhere with a free, world-class education.

InterMountain Learning is a free teaching, learning, and collaboration tool provided by the Umatilla-Morrow Education Service District. If you are an Oregon teacher or administrator, or if you have a community based education project that you would like to have hosted at InterMountain Learning, please contact us:erika.lasater@umesd.k12.or.us(541)966-4606

Great Powerpoint templates and other projects promoting literacy

programs and projects dealing with literacy

Escondido School District's website for their project iRead, which utilizes 1:1 iPods.

The Reactive Colours project, funded by NESTA, identified that certain fundamental aspects of social interaction and communication could be promoted in young children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions through technology environments that enable children to play and explore without fear of failure. A practical outcome of this research has been the fully customisable ReacTickles software.