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An online whiteboard to paint chat with others using your mouse or tablet. Create your chat room to communicate using an unique writing style. Interactive Illimitably could be used by students to collaborate on the creation of story webs. Students could also use the service to collaborate on the creation of diagrams to use in presentations that they give to their classmates. No registration required, but there is an option to register!

Graph Master is a one-of-a-kind program that allows students to create four different interacive, printable graphs on one screen based on data collected in a survey or poll of their classmates. What makes Graph Master so useful, however, is the fact that after students make their graphs, the program asks them eight multiple choice questions about their graphs using the inputted data and checks them for accuracy.

This seems like an easy assessment resource that might be good to use w/class sets of iPads.  Teachers can set up their answer sheet on the website, and then students enter a code and take the test on the iPad.  They can even use a work space to solve problems if needed.  

SOL:  Measurement - Meet Jack the builder.  He lives in a country that only uses the Metric System.  Can your students help Jack?  He gets terribly confused with measuring.  Begin with a discussion on the metric "Unit of Measurement" to help students understand the terminology.  When this is complete, students help Jack read the actual measurements in the activity.   Be careful though, this site uses the French language spelling since it is from Canada. 

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Thanks Bambi

How to Green Screen

How to create a green screen video using Discovery

Audio Apps

Funny iPad vs. paper -- will use for presentation opening

A list of apps to use or try with SPED students.

If you can't get enough tips, apps, websites, tech help and guides, Make Use Of should be a go-to for you. This website will keep you in-the-know when it comes to anything tech. Cost: Free. 

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Science 4.8 Moon phases, do you know them?  Here is a quick way to remember: Wax goes to the max while Wane tries to remain.  Using this mnemonic, can you and your students label this simple diagram? 

Infogram is an amazing new web tool for creating infographics quickly and easily. The tool is very simple to use and offers a whole host of unique WYSIWYG editing options from dragging content around to in-tool data table formatting. This is sure to be a popular site as inforgraphics continue to grow in popularity. The site is free, robust, and going to be getting some more customized features and more templates soon. Looks like a great place for teachers and students to play with the art of visual explanation.

Teaching and Learning with IPads