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many out of copyright classics, often assigned to high school students. human voiced, works with MP3 player

A Math Wiki for Elementary School with many links. This is a teacher controlled wiki

Here's a free iPhone app maker that Kristen Swanson posted about. She suggested the idea of creating an app for your school or classroom - cool idea!

"The Accessible Book Collection is a non-profit corporation. Our primary mission is to provide high interest/low reading level digital text to qualified persons with disabilities. Government and non-profit schools and others can subscribe to the very affordable Accessible Book Collection and have a large selection of e-books for all their eligible student. "

Community for integrating iPhone and iPod touch in schools.

Nell Noddings, Stanford.What do advocates of national standards expect to accomplish? Unless the ends sought are both significantly important and feasible, we should turn our attention to problems that are truly pressing, such as reducing the number of high school dropouts and curbing youth violence. It is unlikely that national standards will have a substantial effect on academic achievement.

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

I'm proud to say that I know Kathy Shirley, the tech director who has been instrumental in Escondido's success with iPods. She and her district are doing amazing things in my hometown of San Diego, CA.

I use BrainPOP with my middle school students for language therapy.

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.

Wendy Burkhardt, AT Specialist for San Ramon Valley Unified School District

"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."

Wendy Burkhardt, Assistive technology Specialist for San Ramon Valley Unified School District

All you have to do to be eligible is register with A4cwsn, follow us on Twitter and / or Facebook then send us a letter detailing why your family needs an iPad and how it will help you.  The more information you give, the more they can determine your situation, photos, videos, school reports, what ever you feel comfortable telling them.