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Teachers With Apps, co-founded by Jayne Clare (Special Education teacher) and Anne Rachel (Early Childhood educator) is a premiere resource site for educational app discovery.

They review the research on the different programs, products, practices, and policies in education.Then, by focusing on the results from high-quality research, we try to answer the question "What works in education?Their goal is to provide educators with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions.

Gary Toews has put together the below list of useful education apps as recommended by the STaRT Education Department. On this page are nearly all the apps I'd personally recommend to anyone looking to outfit their iPad, iPhone, or other device with free apps perfect for their grade level.

This is where you can go to get educational videos to use in your class and they are all organized and previewed by profesionals in the educational field.

a list of the sites that educators have found to be useful and safe.

edshelf is a directory ofdigital tools for educators Discover new tools See what other educators use ,Rate and review your favorite tools and it is free.

This is a website to collect and share tools, hardware and applications available for the enhancement of technology in edudcation with emphasis in Special education. We have been collecting material over the last 7 years. This is our attempt to put together all that information in a categorized format so parents, educators and other professionals who work with kids with special needs can benefit from the knowledge we already acquired.

TeachersPayTeachers® is an online marketplace where teachers buy and sell original downloadable educational materials, hard goods and used educational resources.

Quiz Maker is a Web-based assessment platform that allows educators to create and administer public and private tests. It includes six question types, a bank of pre-built questions and quiz templates, reporting and analytics features, privacy/security tools, and support for multimedia. Quiz Maker comes in both free and paid subscription editions, with subscriptions ranging from $3.97 to $9.97 per month for educators. (The free edition is ad-supported and limited, lacking reporting, privacy, and other features.)

As iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches become included in curriculum, here are several education apps you might enjoy

Meograph is a free, easy multimedia storytelling tool. Students can quickly combine videos, audio, pictures, text, maps, timelines, and links to create what the developers call "four-dimensional storytelling." No registration is required and an education version is available.  You have to play around with it to get the concept before introducing it to students.

an education platform that is customizing the way students learn by offering more than 28,000 tutorials on a variety of academic topics taught by thousands of teachers. This vibrant, first-of-its-kind learning community helps teachers enrich their classrooms, empowers students to learn in their own way, and provides a pathway to an affordable college degree.  FREE

Teach Amazing newsletter, packed with educational technology, web 2.0, and tips to teach amazing!

Wonderful post on this site that reviews the best free learning games, software and websites.This one is regarding creating Avatars for kids. Many other educational suggestions are on this site

These educational games provide fun and focused repetition practice that enables automaticity and fluency to be achieved more quickly. With what we now know about automaticity and fluency in academic performance, we can help students achieve masterful levels performance faster than ever before!

apps for special needs students.

Ipod and Ipad subject list by grade and subject area from the Texas Educational association

Tech standards from the International Society for Technology for Technology in Education

A blog with related information about educational technology and app advice. A lot of good information.

A place to get young teens to write and even read!  Figment users-most of whom are between 13 and 24 years old-create a profile and upload their work, giving it a title and picking from a large selection of stock images to use as cover art. Other users can read the pieces online and leave comments and provide feedback. The site is free and there is capabilities to create educator/ group profiles to have privacy within your own class before making writings public.Rally good for self expression, releasing feelings thoughts and creativity.