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The Kentucky Virtual Library presents: How to do Research. a Great visual on how to conduct research

The Harvard Graduate School of Education has launched a new website to share best practices and research with educators, administrators, and policymakers across the nation.   The site, Useable Knowledge, will highlight specifically the work and research of the University's faculty and their co-researchers across the globe.   K-12 and Higher Education content will both be featured on the site.  

"millions of students use EasyBib monthly to cite and doucment the best sources used in their research. We've now made these sources searchable. What you cite, others can search. It's a viruous cycle that improves research for all" on webpage. it is currently in BETA

Researchers Determine How the Brain Controls Robotic Grasping Tools

automated bibliography, citation, research, and text highlighting tool that organizes content automatically generates a citation page for you. works best in Chrome or Firefox

2009 Updated Academic Vocabulary is an initiative of Tennessee's Department of Education. The goal of this project is to provide teachers a list of common terms or phrases aimed at improving vocabulary development of students in Tennessee. Although there is no single best way to teach terms and phrases, Dr. Marzano's research and theory on vocabulary development does point to a few generalizations that provide strong guidance. This site is dedicated to the sixth step in that process by providing a collection of games and activities designed to review and strengthen vocabulary development. . The goal of this project is to provide teachers a list of common terms or phrases aimed at improving vocabulary development of students in Tennessee. Although there is no single best way to teach terms and phrases , Dr. Marzano's research and theory on vocabulary development does point to a few generalizations that provide strong guidance. This site is dedicated to the sixth step in that process by providing a collection of games and activities designed to review and strengthen vocabulary development."

Glean Conmparison Search helps you compare and contrast differeing viewpoints of a research topic in one page

article on how to use Diigo as your own research tool 

The AAC Apps Assistant is a unique and powerful fee-for-service tool for researching AAC communication Apps for iOS devices (iPads,iPhone, iPods with other platforms to be added). It provides information based on our review of over 100+ current communication Apps on the market.

Interesting new research into ADHD

DeCoste Writing Protocol : research-based evaluation tool for considering AT in the area of written expression. 

New search tool that uses some of th eold features of the Google wheel search plus more. it finds videos, concepts, synonms and even quizzes. you can join for free and it will remember your searches

Enter website address or keywords to cite.

1,000 of links to the best games, songs and stories for young children.

works best with Mozilla firefox. online word processor with text to speech

outline creator visual map; just complete sections

typing program for Braille, keyboard, one-switch or two switch.