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180 Technology Tips is a great resource for educators. It sends out an email everyday with a 5 minute lesson on some aspect of technology. You just sign up using your email address and it does the rest. Topics include better web searching, Microsoft Word and Excel tips, email, toolbars, cellphones, and more. The site also has past lessons archived for you to look at. I found the lessons easy to follow and understand and recommend this to all teachers.

Welcome to the Student Inventory for Technology Supports (SIFTS). The SIFTS is a tool to assist school teams in matching a student's needs with assistive technology (AT) features.

livebinder of free technology tools for teachers

Free Technology for Teachers article about seven Chrome Apps for students to Use Offline:; Daum Equation Editor, Quick Note,  Periodic Table,  etc.  some very interesting options 

Educational technology buzzwords

Loudoun County annual calendar with AT or technology hints each day 

Accessing and Using the Knowledge Base For the past 12 years I have conducted an annual review of the special education technology literature. This work involves scanning the contents of 31 journals and capturing each article that I think is relevant to the work of special education technology professionals. After reading, analyzing, and indexing each article, I prepare an analysis of this one-year profile of the knowledge base. The purpose of this work is to answer the question, "What have we learned lately?" by Dave L. Edyburn, Ph.D.

Wisconsis Assistive Technology

Interesting article on the 4 Ss of Note Taking with Technology

This website is intended to provide information about the provision of assistive technology (commonly referred to as "AT") in the K-12 school setting, to Illinois educators and parents.  The determination of a student's need for AT, selection of the appropriate AT, implementation of AT services and ongoing support for a student using AT is an critical process requiring many individuals, including a wide variety of school professionals as well as the student and their parents or guardians, to work together to determine how the student can best meet his or her educational objectives.

Technology in (Spl) Education, can search for apps by IEP Goals/Skills. have a free app a day promotion

Ot's with Apps wiki page

Assistive technology resources

Two Great Tools to Create Image Based Quizzes ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.  I like the one that uses Google Docs.  You can  probably include graphics for answers to make the quiz more UDL

List with links to everything dealing with Google Docs

One Note benefits students with Dyslexia

Interesting website to build vocabulary lists

Wappwolf connects your web services / apps with Dropbox. You can drag & drop files into a predefined folder on Dropbox and have them automatically converted to a new format or sync them to your favorite places, including: Evernote, Kindle, Facebook, Flickr or Google+. Convenient access to all your files from any device. see Richard Byrne's April 26, 2012 blog Free Technology for Teachers for further assistance

Web page with information about text to speech tools that will read math done hin NMath HTML

Education Tech Points is the web site of the Coalition in Assistive TEchnology. They also sell a book written by Penny Reed and Gayl Browser