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List of things to consider if you plan to use tech tools with your students.

Focus on e-reading, ocr units/software.

This article is the best description I have seen on designing a way to evaluate instructional software. It breaks it down clearly and gives several resources to help guide you on your way to making a decision.

Check list for evaluating instructional software

Listings, descriptions and reviews of free educational software and websites for school or home use. Categories include reading, science, math, typing, social studies, programming etc.

Zoho Docs is an online document management software that helps you store all your documents in one place and seamlessly collaborate with your team from anywhere, on any device.

This is a great resource for Software Support Tools for Assessment and Grading. This was put together my NEWA the organization that developed the MAPS test. Some of these I wouldn't have thought of for Assessment, like Lino. Lino is an old-time virtual bulletin board where you post "sticky" notes. I've seen this used as a "parking lot" for questions during PD, but I think I'll try it for assessment with teachers next training I lead.

Advice from the researchers on: 1. The Signaling Principle 2. The Segmenting Principle 3. The Modality Principle 4. The Multimedia Principle 5. The Coherence Principle

This is an excellent resource on how to create stronger presentations using Powerpoint and any other presentation software.

Another great list of Web 2.0 tools. There are a few that should be added in the Augmented Reality section like Aurasma and Daqri 4D, but still lots of good resources. There are also several different choices for Productivity Software.

Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web. Students can replay these lessons any time, any place, on any connected device. We're on a mission to dramatically improve student achievement by extending the reach of great teaching.

Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Educreations software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web. Students can also use Educreations to create videos.

This is a subscription-based service, but it is well worth the money if you have the time and need access to a wide array of training videos for using pretty much any software tool you can think of

Easy to use brainstorming software.

This site is a great source for free downloads for students. This is a great source of free software if you are a student.

This is a free voice speaking software that will allow you to control your computer through voice commands.

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity... Also check our Wiki and Forum for more information. The latest release of Audacity is 1.3.13 (Beta).

All kinds of creative uses of this tool come to mind. One can use it to have students visualize a character in a story and create a composite based upon the text and their own mental picture. Art Technology, Theatre, Language Arts, History could take strong advantage of this tool.

Excellent detailed list of instructional software evaluation factors.

This is drill and practice instructional software. If focuses on Grammar and Writing

This website is a problem solving software example for math. This matrix logic puzzle website is a great way to get students to solve word problems with math. Each word problem is a different situation and the website gives the students a matrix to use to solve each logic puzzle. It gives the students clues and they can check their answers as they go along to see how they are doing.