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Free application that provides users the ability to document resources, bookmark sites, provide annotation, and has iOS app option too.  No Safari bar option available. 

Check out this new and growing blog on web tools and ideas for K-12 teachers. It also includes a list of grant sites.

"special education, students, SPED, functional skills, high school, teachers"

I really like this visual by Sylvia Duckworth of Mark Anderson (@ICTEvangelist) 4 stages of teacher confidence in the use of technology.

Which of these digital characteristics do you not meet?

"Providing the latest tools in technology, and a social interactive networking environment, has enabled teens to explore, create, and share with others. A result of pulling these two key online arenas together into one solution has enabled FreshBrain to attract teens comfortable with technology and communicating online. Creations from FreshBrain users range from music videos to logo designs." "FreshBrain is a public charity - a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit. As a result, the use of the website is FREE. We are not talking about a free trial or free for the basic version."

Web 2.0 is about revolutionary new ways of creating, collaborating, editing and sharing user-generated content online. It's also about ease of use. There's no need to download, and teachers and students can master many of these tools in minutes. Technology has never been easier or more accessible to all.

Wendy Kopp (Teach for America)--importance of technology and assessment (for kids, teachers and parents). Gaming and implications for teaching and engaging children..

""Learning requires creating active patterns in the brain," said Baker. "We're working with people with functional MRIs as they learn particular things and it's really different from taking multiple choice tests. It isn't just our allegation. It turns out to be physiologically different." Baker went on to describe how teachers scoring demonstrations could be taught to eliminate subjectivity and bias and how technology was making the use of performance-based assessments more cost effective."

Richard Byrne is the creator of Free Technology 4 Teachers.  This is his Google site with additional resources. 

"CrunchEd Productions provides bite-sized video tutorials on popular educational applications, helping teachers maximize the use of technology in and out of the classroom."