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Mark was at the Harvard Institute and has just joined our Ning group and posted about his site.

This is an impressive collection of presentations on UDL and AT-related topics archived online. From Mark at the Virginia AT Program. Check it out!!

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.

The story of a student labeled 'learning disabled' and how this impacted her.

Anita's UDL page on the CEET discussion forum. This is a new social network created to discuss tech initiatives in BC education.

Practical ideas for using tech in teaching.The post is by Kevin Jarrett of New Jersey, but it highlights the amazing work of Tom Barrett in the UK.

Part one of atwo part series on podcasts.

Online thesaurus that displays word associations in a colorful web. The thesaurus gives you an option to change the display, viewing all or just the synonyms, antonyms, fuzznyms, adverbs, adjectives, verbs, nouns. In that respect, it's a lot less visually confusing than Visuwords.

Math and Science Simulations from the University of Colorado. Can change various parameters to create simulation; can also create different graphs associated with the simulation. Appropriate for middle school and high school.

You read a snippet of a story and then you click 'read more' at which time you are presented with unique paths to continue the story. You choose. If you wish you can then add to the story by grafting your own snippet onto the story. Popular snippets get ranked and continue, unpopular snippets disappear.

lessons across the curriculum that incorporate ipods

Add voice to your photos - freeware. Can be done from your phone.

Listen to work documents, homework, PowerPoint presentations, emails, RSS feeds, blogs and novels while you relax, commute or exercise. Proofread, learn a new language, multi-task, and use YAKiToMe! for entertainment. YAKiToMe! speaks multiple languages (English, Spanish, French, German, ...) with both male and female voices using the world's best text to speech (TTS) synthesis technologies.

Free online outlining tool. LooseStitch lets you create and share outliner documents. Brainstorm ideas. Jot them down. Call friends over. Get feedback. Make changes. Share... Now on the iPhone

Great interactive weather simulations.