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Want to help out students and colleagues with handy tips on improving search results and using popular Google products like Google Earth? Just print out these posters and hang them where everyone can see them.

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

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.

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.

4Teachers.org: Helping Teachers Integrate Technology into the Classroom. This is a great set of teaching planning tools!

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!!

Turn your photos into incredible artwork with one click!

An immersive authentic educational project by Westwood Schools in Camilla, GA US. Great example of using a Ning for a class project.

A student discovers the limitations of a printed textbook.

Shidonni is an innovative startup, developing the next generation of creative 'virtual' worlds for kids. Shidonni is providing a safe environment where kids and their parents can create imaginary worlds and animals, play games and interact with friends. Shidonni is based on unique proprietary patented algorithms and using Microsoft Silverlight.

Techy Tips for not so Techy Teachers A collaboration of ideas for quick and simple ways to use technology in the classroom - ANY classroom!

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.

Engineering Interact is a new and exciting free educational resource for primary school children aged 9 to 11. The resource provides fully interactive, engaging game environments and high-quality learning material tailored to the National Curriculum. Information about real world applications and cutting edge research motivates children and introduces them to the exciting subject of engineering. This resource has been created by the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, with a grant from the HEFCE Aspirations Fund and the University of Cambridge Active Community fund.

This site describes how to create an informal "action research" question for evaluating your own educational practices.

You can learn a lot about angles by looking at letters. Let's look at the following letters to see what we can learn from them.

I love this! Lots of flash demos and extra practice with feedback for all types of angles.

This browser add-in reduces clutter and visual distractions on a page. It enables text readers such as Click Speak (Firefox) to work better. It could also be used to strip iffy ads from websites teachers want to use with students. In addition, Paul Hamilton reports that it also strips clutter from pages you're importing to Kurzweil using the KESI Virtual Printer. Wow!

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