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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."

Science Writer steps students through the process of writing a report with introduction, methods, results, and conclusion sections. Students draft, revise, and edit their report, using just-in-time support from pedagogical agents who offer models and information about how to write each section. They may also access content and editing checklists to help them evaluate their writing and make revisions. And finally, students can use the embedded text-to-speech tool to listen to their writing to see if it "sounds right" and to listen to any of the directions and instructional material, as well as accessing vocabulary definitions. Each student has their own Science Writer account and teach

ChromeVis is a Google Chrome extension designed to make it easier for people with vision impairments to read the content of webpages. When installed ChromeVis allows you to highlight the text on any webpage and have it enlarged and placed on an easy-to-read background. Your highlighted text appears in a pop-up box over the original page so that you can quickly go back to the original source if you want to. ChromeVis can be adjusted to meet your text size and text color preferences.

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.

Note: Click the Journal Jar to pick a new Journal Topic. YouTube Video - See it in Action! To get the full experience, run Journal Jar App on your mobile device. Got a camera on your mobile device? Scan the image with any QRCode Reader App (eg. Free Red Laser App in AppStore) to go directly to the app. Apple devices (iphone /ipod / ipad): Visit this page on your mobile browser & "Add to Home Screen" Android devices: Visit this page on your mobile browser:- (1) Add to your Bookmarks. (2) Open the browser "bookmarks" screen. (3) Long-press the bookmark. (4) Select "Add to Home Screen"

Just Beam It is a service for quickly and easily sharing files with your colleagues. To use the service just visit Justbeamit.com and drag a file from your desktop to the Just Beam It transfer box. After dragging your file, Just Beam It generates an unique url for your file. Give that link to the person or people you want to be able to download your files. Just Beam It supports files up to 2GB. Watch the short video below for an overview of Just Beam It in action.

Form for start of year staff acknowledge they know about AT Importance of documentation Permissions for software list with Raymond. Unmanaged computer list hough you were extremely timely with your request ticket, Vicky's recommendation for next year was to create a ticket again, but to do it later in the summer. - Specifically, she thought that if you could work with your group as they come back on contract (2-3 weeks before school starts), you would be able to get even more accurate information from them at that time. Additionally, once the ticket is created, you or I should email her directly to let her know it's ready so it can be given immediate priority (vs. having a ticket out there during the summer that can't be handled until after reimaging is done). The ticket would need the same information I believe you provided this year: T #, Room #, Campus, and What to load. She would then like to work on the batch all at once over a day or two and let you know when it's done.

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.

has been designed as an interactive Internet search task to guide pupils through making more discerning use of information presented online. The task includes a range of spoof material to help show primary pupils how to evaluate what they read online, and how to be selective about the information they find. The tasks are presented to pupils as an interactive Webquest. There is a section for teachers which includes a series of lessons and explanations of what the pupils are learning about better online searching as they complete each webquest.

iPad academy instructions on how to add the speak selection to any text editing app.   Go to settings: General: Accessibility:  tap speak selection from the list adjust the speaking rate.  Now you will have the option to speak your selected phrases or words in your document 

Braille Institute is proud to present ViA (Visually Impaired Apps) for iPhone and iPad. ViA has been designed to help blind and low-vision users easily sort through the 500,000+ apps in the iTunes App Store to locate the apps that were built specifically for visually impaired users, or apps that happen to provide functionality useful to this population.

ImageToText app allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by EMAIL or EVERNOTE. The app is free, very easy to use, and requires NO REGISTRATION. Simply take a picture of a document that you would like to extract text from, and e-mail the image to yourself, co-workers, friends. You will all receive not only the image but a text file that contains the editable text that is extracted from the image. Currently we are supporting English documents only.

Richard Byrne provides a nice description on how to convert PDFs to Google docs to make them more accessible. 

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.

Save and Search is a new social bookmarking/reminder site that makes it very simple to bookmark and share or save any URL. With a nice interface and some simple features, this is a nice tool for students and teachers to use in order to send URLs with accompanying notes to classmates or colleagues.

a new cloud storage system to share files. similiar to drop box, where people can share files. you can also search within files. It will be linkied to your Google docs. 5K are free and you can pay to upgrade. It is not available for everyone yet.

article with vidoe on how to save stuff you have created on your iPad to iturnes to be able to open on a computer with itures

SwipeType adds text editing shortcuts to the keyboard. Simply swipe your finger on the keyboard from the space key to specific keys to select text, cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, scroll to the start or end & much more!

Projectbook lets you type notes in a variety of fonts, create outlines, handwrite, sketch, record audio, and take photos together on any page. It helps you stay on top of your projects and due dates with a flexible to-do manager. And, it automatically connects related notes, web clips, Word docs, PDFs and to-dos throughout your notebook, so you can find anything fast -- even if it's not organized. Projectbook understands the meaning of the words in your notes and documents, so it can gather all your information about any subject with just one tap. It also links key words in your notes to help you jump quickly between related information. And, because Projectbook stores everything safely on your iPad, it's always available instantly wherever you are, even without an Internet connection. No special subscriptions or Wi-Fi hunting required.

is a new website offering free and paid audiobooks that you can listen to online or download to listen to on your favorite device. You can locate audiobooks on AudioLiterate according to author, genre, price, or title. The free audiobooks can be streamed chapter by chapter directly from AudioLiterate. The free audiobooks come from public domain sources.