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Nice summary of Google Tools available for free

Maureen LaFleche spotted this great resource and here's what she has to say about it "Check out CK-12.org. It is a website that provides open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students globally. Free access to high-quality, customizable educational content in multiple modalities suited to multiple student learning styles and levels, will allow teachers, students and others to innovate and experiment with new models of learning. CK-12 helps students and teachers alike by enabling rapid customization and experimentation of teaching and learning styles. Text can be read at two different levels - grade level and basic. You can download books and activities as pdf, epub or mobi." I have checked out several of the units and they look excellent for middle and high school.

This is the best online mind-mapping tool I've seen. It's extremely easy to link the items and allows all kinds of media on the nodes. Very intuitive!

Watch for a new UDL Scan tool coming from this location. Just saw a tweet from ATIA

Online text summarization tool.

Web-based program for developing comic strips. What I love is all the practical activities posted for using this digital story-telling tool.

Great video about how to use Livebinders in a UDL compatible approach at the bottom of this blog post. Other tools shown are audacity, quizlet, wallwisher, shahi.

8 SAMR examples. However, note that each example starts with a traditional assignment rather than a goal. The focus on product is another thing about SAMR that I don't like. Wouldn't it be better to start with a goal and then choose the tool(s) that best serve the goal, tech or not? It seems to me that what redefinition really means is coming up with a more robust and worthwhile goal. I'd rather just start with the goal and UDL Guidelines and select tech as an option that helps achieve the goal and meets the Guidelines.

23 online activities to try with Web 2.0 tools...pretty good overlap with the BC UDL project.

$40 program really simple cool tool makes it easy for kids to create newscasts.

Visual dictionary combines definitions with photos from flickr and Wiktionary.

Awesome free online or downloadable tool for creating shape collages. I learned about it today from a teacher who is using it with students to create collages of their interests for the learning styles/preferences portion of their portfolio. Very quick to download and figure out...totally worth watching the 3 minute tutorial. Leaves a watermark with their company logo in the free version but the teacher says it was so successful she's going to buy the paid version.

Wiki I created to document what's happening as I work with a group of grade 8 teachers who want to help students acquire more tools and skills (both high and low tech) for use in high school.

Dipity is a free online timeliner tool . I've looked at several and think it may be the best for intermediate students to use. It's easy to create a free account and start working. The interface is very simple and requires no tutorial. Basically, each new event gives you boxes for title, date, upload a picture or video, url link, and description. You can share timelines out by email or automatically to popular online sites such as Diigo, Facebook, etc. iLearn website has a review of this timeliner and ideas for using it in the classroom in the July 22 2008 entry.

Student Learning-Strengths Inventory. This page includes some kid-friendly assessment tools.

Big Universe(R) is an award winning web community devoted to beautiful children's picture books. READ hundreds of offerings from today's best children's book publishers, CREATE e-books with the help of an easy-to-use Author Tool, and CONNECT with other Big Universe members to share your creations and to learn what books they have read, created, or recommend. Parents, teachers, kids, authors, and others can share and learn while they enjoy this educational and entertaining website.

This section of flikr teaches social studies by inviting you to comment or tag photos. I searched for Titanic and found some very poignant images with comments by the people who had viewed the picture already. This could be a very powerful learning tool.

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in the web browser itself.