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e-school news online journal about topics in digital education. June issue has a great article by David Gordon about UDL and personalized learning.

This text to speech app is getting excellent reviews for it's features and ability to extract .pdf content.

Just announced at ISTE...a free online portal to help educators from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade find, use, and share the best digital apps, games, and websites for their students.

UDL theory (universal design for learning) can help embed a personalized approach to the instructional design process. Nice short summary of UDL starting with importance of separating goals from methods.

This is a site for teachers or librarians to test technology literacy skills with 6th grade or 9th grade students. It may be a useful tool!

Assessment tool to evaluate 6th and 9th grade student technology literacy skills.

What to do when kid's parents don't speak English at home: load up an i-pod with English music, stories and lessons, and send it home.

just because it's tech, doesn't mean it's good!

Students in a South Texas classroom had taken on the role of employees at CleanWater Tech, a fictional U.S. company that produces water filtration technology, and were poring over the economic indicators of various unnamed countries, trying to decide into which nation the company should expand.

While many educators realize technology's enormous potential to help them differentiate their instruction so that all students can learn, regardless of students' needs, abilities, or learning styles, it might be hard for them to find concrete applications of this approach to emulate in their classrooms. But in a Jan. 28 webinar from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), experts provided several examples of classroom projects that can help all students learn while keeping them engaged.

The real challenge is not integrating technology effectively. It's developing a vision for technology use