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Using Google Docs, create a template that will serve as your daily agenda to be shared with students. Use tables, colors, and images to help organize your subjects or class periods. Place your Google Doc agenda in the "About" section of Google Classroom to be viewed by your students. When students open the Doc, they need to click the Drive icon and Save iit to their own Drive. Every day or week you'll update your shared agenda Doc for your students which will be viewable to them through Google Classroom or Drive. In Google Keep (keep.google.com) a new note needs to be made for each student. This note will be shared between you and your student so it doesn't matter if you create it or the student creates their own.

Google Play books for Androids supports text to speech and reads ebooks from Google

Google Official Blog  9/19/12.  Blog about accessibility in Google and Android platforms

Color Note is a notepad app which give you a better note editing experience. Color Note is a simple notepad app. It give you a quick and simple notepad editing experience when you write notes, memo, email, message, shopping list and todo list. Color Note makes taking a note easier than any other notepad and memo apps.

CalenGoo is an Android app that will sync with your Android and Google Calendar

special needs apps for google android

TCEA recommended Chrome Apps and Extensions list, evaluated by teachers

Google Keep  is an Android and Google App.  It is a to do list manager but it now has added OCR capabilities 

Kathy Schrock's new site for everything Bloomin: apps, google, web 2.0 tools

synch your Android device with Google. To Do lists

Nice tips for working with Google Docs

Google Tools for Specials Needs.  Check out the Slide Show with recommendations for apps and extensions.  Good for students using Chrome Books, or Chrome on any computer. 

3. Google Tone/Chirp - URLs can be distributed by sound! Google Tone is an extension to the Google Chrome web browser. It broadcasts URLs by emitting a sound that other Chrome web browsers can understand. They translate that tone to a URL and direct users to that site. This is great for sending a whole class of students to one site quickly. If you're using iPads, the Chirp app does the same thing.

The 21st Century Principal's blog about 25 apps needed for Android tablets. 

BookShare Go Read app for Android

Qyiuck Note, an Android app for taking nots, at this point it does not syncy to the cloud but there is indication that it will soon

Android app to store passwords and works with your dropbox account to allow you to synch it across devices

Dictus Free an Android app for voice recognition

Lockiebuzzr is an Android app where you can store reminders in folders and on location. So you can have alerts go off according to your location and other specificaitons.

Android app that allows you to control your Android phone from another phone via simple commands. One way is if you have misplaced your phone and it is on silent, you can turn the ringer back on to help you locate it.