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Digital portfolios provide a distillation of an individual's best work, typically generated over a year or a longer period of time. Most digital portfolios contain a broad range of information to properly capture the person's versatility. Information in d

Episode #35 is up for your listening pleasure! Episode #35 describes two websites that contain online painting programs. The episode also features a bumper from Julie Bisbee, a speech-language pathologist from San Juan County, New Mexico. Also, mentioned in this episode is the "Accessing the Artist Within" project from the Anne Carlsen Center in North Dakota.

Episode #46 features another excerpt from the presentation for the Individual Differences in Learning Association in Howard County, Maryland. This excerpt describes WordTalk; a free text-to-speech plug-in for Microsoft Word. The episode features a bumper from Karen Janowski who is an assistive technology consultant, an assistive technology specialist for a school district in Massachusetts, adjunct faculty member at Simmons College, and school board member in her town. She is also one of the innovators behind the UDLTechToolKit wiki, which contains a plethora of resources useful for differentiating instruction.

Geocaching is a treasure hunting game where you use a GPS to hide and seek containers with other participants in the activity. Geocaching.com is the listing service for geocaches around the world.

free download, shoe box tasks

Work task ideas and free printables

Photos of shoebox work tasks that provide students with structured hands-on activities, all contained within a box.

Early Childhood Learning Kits In an effort to assist teachers with fostering emerging literacy and math skills in young children, the T/TAC at VCU has purchased and augmented new early childhood learning kits. The kits are theme-based and contain material

Great set of comprehensive multi-modal lesson plans, too! NOW LOCATED AT http://www.ttac.vcu.edu/main/early-childhood/early-childhood-learning-kits /

"In an effort to assist teachers with fostering emerging literacy and math skills in young children, the T/TAC at VCU has purchased and augmented new early childhood learning kits. The kits are theme-based and contain materials that can be integrated within classroom centers to promote literacy and math skills. Assistive technology devices and adaptive materials have been added to the kits to assist teachers in helping all students access the materials."

recommendations and reviews Apps are arranged by challenge area and difficulty level. For each challenge area, we've included an informational overview with a list of typical challenges that kids face, help for choosing apps that match kids' needs, and further resources. You'll also find Power Tips with ideas for other activities you can do. You can download a guide which contains a list of nearly 100 apps that have been rigorously evaluated and carefully selected by a panel of expert educators, and thoroughly tested by parents and kids. The apps that made the list have been determined to be great media that can boost or supplement learning in both core academic subjects like reading and math, as well as social interaction, communication, motor skills, and organization.

"Picto-Selector is a free tool for creating visual schedules. The download contains over 28000 pictos (images) translated to English, Dutch, German, French, Danish and Spanish. (Some pictos are also translated to Arabic, Swedish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian and Indonesian)"

SEE ME, FEEL ME, TOUCH ME, HEAR ME: Adapting Books for Divergent Learners PowerPoint Presentation Click on this link for a document containing instructions, considerations, samples, resources, specific units, and sites for assisitve technology support materials The A-Z of Adapting Books for Students with Disabilities in Virginia Click on this link for a document filled with resources specifically for adapting books by Ynez Peterson, OTR/L, AT Specialist Click on this link for ideas on how to fill your room with literacy while meeting the needs of diverse learners by Judy Owens and Gerald Abner SET-BC Accessible Books Video demonstrations on creating and FREE accessible books for downloading from Special Education Technology-British Columbia To download, open, edit and print these files, you must have Boardmaker® software , available at www.mayer-johnson.com .

scroll down page for additional thematic literacy links on subsequent site adapted books

"11 Free Reading Websites for Kids"

"At Really Good Stuff, we know that teachers and parents have limited time when it comes to finding free, high-quality online resources for their children.  When we first published the 11 Free Reading Websites for Kids article, we had no idea the response it would have.  In fact, the cry for more resources encouraged us to publish 11 Free Math Websites for Kids.   We hope you find this article and the free resources in contains helpful!"

A free Web 2.0 site, Big Huge Labs contains numerous tools for creating cool effects with images. It's easy-to-use steps help students create projects in just a few minutes.

This ever-growing library consists of totes containing a hard copy of a book, a Literacy Planner, a Reading Communication Board, props, and more! Many of the resources created/reproduced come from sites including KizClub (http://kizclub.com) for props, Baltimore City Schools (http://bit.ly/BCSchools) for Boardmaker visual supports, Making Learning Fun (www.makinglearningfun.com) for theme-based activities.

The KizClub site contains learning resources for kids featuring free worksheets, coloring pages, activities, stories, and more!

FREE printable props for almost 100 storybook favorites Kiz Club

This site has online manipulatives categorized by grade levels and subject areas in math.

A digital library containing Java applets and activities for K-12 mathematics

Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation is committed to educating all children through the principles of UDL. Contains Cartoon of man shoveling the ramp.

This is a downloadable zipped file containing their guide to adapting books

This site contains web tools organized into sectiopns including research, collaborative, quiz and poll, converters, creativity, image, drawing, and more!

Presentation Tools Collaborative Tools Research Tools Video Tools Slideshow Tools Audio Tools Image Tools Drawing Tools Writing Tools Music Tools Organising Tools Converting Tools Mapping Tools Quiz and Poll Tools Graphing Tools Creativity Tools Widgets File Storage & Web Pages Other Helpful Sites Creative Commons Teacher Resources"

UDL Wikispaces Wiki created using Glogster.Interactive Wiki providing a variety of information and support for implementing a UDL framework within educational environments

Karen Janowski's wiki contains an amazing array of free UDL tools and resources for all classrooms, including math, literacy, study skills, research, and much more.

The National STEM Centre houses the largest open collection of resources for teachers of science, design and technology, engineering and mathematics in the UK. Alongside contemporary resource materials including print, multimedia, and practical resources, is a growing archive collection, which showcases several decades of curriculum development. Resources for use with early years to post-16 students are freely available as physical and eLibrary collections. The eLibrary currently contains over 4,000 teaching resources for the STEM subjects.