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Watch web videos without the comments and commercials. Supported sites include YouTube, BBC iPlayer, Viddler, and Vimeo

U.S. law provides protection to authors, creators and publishers of works. It also grants privileges (fair use) that do not infringe copyright, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research.

A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a web

YouTube has earned a reputation for featuring brain cell-slaughtering fare such as the truly abysmal Fred and playing host to the some of the most depressingly stupid comments this side of Yahoo! News. But for every participant liberally dishing out misspelled racist, sexist and homophobic talking points, there is at least one whose channel genuinely offers something provocative and educational. For teachers hoping to infuse multimedia into their classrooms, YouTube makes for an excellent starting point. Plenty of universities, nonprofits, organizations, museums and more post videos for the cause of education both in and out of schools. The following list compiles some of the ones most worthy of attention, as they feature plenty of solid content appealing to their respective audiences and actively try to make viewers smarter.

TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.

Montgomery County Public Schools' instructions on how to add voice comments in Microsoft One Note.

Graphic organizers are an illustration of your thoughts on paper. They can help you brainstorm, organize, and visualize your ideas. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you've downloaded an organizer, type in your comments and prin

"Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers "Graphic organizers are tools that help your brain think." - Kylene Beers Graphic organizers are an illustration of your thoughts on paper. They can help you brainstorm, organize, and visualize your ideas. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you've downloaded an organizer, type in your comments and print it out.   Each graphic organizer below includes Teaching Notes with lessons and tips on how to use graphic organizers in the classroom.  "

Episode #91 features e-mails, tweets, Facebook comments and other correspondence from listeners. This episode also features a bumper from Mona Pruett, from the Virginia Department of Education's Training and Technical Assistance Center, telling everyone about the assistive technology blog at http://assistivetechnology.vcu.edu.

This might be useful for student with reading difficulties. They can get a summary of text.

Tutorial/cheat sheet on using the Sound Recorder / Voice Comment feature in MS Word 2007 to insert voice recordings within the document. Great tool for students and teachers!

This basic writing template allows students to use MS Word's Sound Recorder / Voice Comment feature to audio record what they want to write and then play it back as often as needed to remind themselves while typing. The editing checklist at the bottom offers the option for teachers to record audio reminders for editing. Customize the writing template to meet your needs!

Welcome AAC and General Assistive Technology lovers. Here you will find information, materials and sites of interest related to AAC and AT. Of particular interest is the use of core vocabulary to support students with language and communication disabilities. Also featured is training materials related to computer access methods and training of those methods. This is a work in progress by a school-based AT Specialist. Data is updated when I have the time! Please go to the discussion tab to leave me a message or make comments. Enjoy! Barb Cannon Site Owner and AT Specialist

Student's strength/preference is to provide verbal responses. Student might answer questions using her/his voice. Student outlines thoughts for an essay by recording voice notes in each cell of a graphic organizing template and then goes back to type in what was recorded. Teachers could use this feature to provide audio feedback. Teacher could use this feature to provide instructions, hints, reminders, or other comments to students.

This is a place to find other Daily 5 folks that you might want to connect with. You may want to find another teacher working with a similar grade level or maybe you would like to connect your classes. I know we have members who have written collaborative stories together, follow each other's blogs and twitter accounts, and who use Skype for Read to Someone globally. You can use the Comments column to add any extra information.

Tutorial/cheat sheet on adding the Voice Comment feature on the Quick Access Toolbar in MS Word 2007 to easily create voice recordings in the document. Great tool for student and teachers!

This customizable writing template allows students to use MS Word's Voice Comment feature to audio record what they want to write, and then play it back as needed to remind themselves while typing. It includes an optional editing checklist for teachers to record audio cues for editing.

"Fakebook" allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes. Use "Fakebook" to chart the plot of a book, the development of a character, a series of historical events, the debates and relationships between people, and so on! Get started by entering a name at the top of the page. Then proceed to add friends, posts, comments and profile information. You can save your work and edit it again later.

E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet.You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.

scroll down to DYNAMIC DISPLAY EXAMPLES Downloadable powerpoints which provide practice in creating sentences, targeting, commenting, cause & effect http://www.childrenshospital.org/centers-and-services/programs/a-_-e/augmentative-communication-program/downloads