Education access and achievement for the deaf and hard of hearing is gaining attention as more students attend neighborhood schools, and educators are becoming more familiar with options and opportunities to improve instructional delivery. Multimedia materials and environments can provide multiple representations of concepts that are more meaningful to students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Assistive technology (AT) is available to help individuals with many types of disabilities - from cognitive problems to physical impairment. This article will focus specifically on AT for individuals with learning disabilities (LD). The use of technology to enhance learning is an effective approach for many children.

February 18, 2016 Here is a handy cheat sheet we have been working on during the last few days. This is basically a collection of some of the best apps and web tools to use for each of the six thinking levels in Bloom's digital taxonomy.

In this Q&A podcast, I speak with Sarah Gilbert, who facilitates ATD's Essentials of Mobile Development Using Adobe Captivate® and Mobile Learning Certificate. Sarah Gilbert specializes in training strategy, design, and development at meLearning Solutions. In her PHII Academy director role at the Task Force for Global Health, she leads a team to create global solutions for public health informatics training challenges.

July 25, 2016 One of the most fascinating things about running a service like edshelf is seeing trends in search behaviors. Searches for iPad and iPhone apps continue to dominate, though searches for Google Chromebook apps are rising faster than any other platform. Here are some notable Google Chrome apps used by fellow educators.

This article comes from PSU's Education magazine. It's about bringing gaming into the K-12 classroom.

Five years ago, Google unveiled a shiny new toy for nerds. The Google Ngram Viewer is seductively simple: Type in a word or phrase and out pops a chart tracking its popularity in books. Millions of books, 450 million words-suddenly accessible with just a few keystrokes.

This is just a helpful PDF with using Voicethread in the classroom.

This is a pretty good article about using web 2.0 tools to teach 21st century skills:
Tucker, S. Y. (2014). Transforming Pedagogies: Integrating 21st Century Skills and Web 2.0 Technology. Turkish Online Journal Of Distance Education, 15(1), 166-173.

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Another interesting article about AUPs

Frances Jacobson Harris, M. C. (2014). What's Not to 'Like'?. School Library Journal, 60(3), 46.

"From the Page to the Classroom: Implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English Language Arts and Literacy" provides the background of the CCSS and the three shifts that are inherent in these standards. Their use of videos is very effective and interesting.

Larry Ferlazzo I teach English & Social Studies at inner-city high school in Sacramento,CA This blog was co-authored by Katie Hull Sypnieski. This post is excerpted from their new book, The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels.

I found this site for helpful ways to incorporate Docs and Spreadsheets into your classroom.

Ask questions and get real-time feedback from your audience. Your audience can participate by voting both with SMS and with web browsers.

The CDT is an online adaptive assessment option for various subjects.

Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn - any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

Fakebook Fakebook - create a fictional social profile at www.classtools.net I love using this resource in my ELA classroom.

NoodleTools is a student research platform with MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian bibliographies, notecards, and outlining capabilities. I love using this with my students for various projects.