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Features: - Real-time collaboration on a virtual whiteboard with infinite pages - Real-time communication through voice conferencing and text chat - Permanent storage of all classrooms for later access - Support for image uploading - Access to basic drawing tools and colors

The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept.

Episode #41 is up for your listening pleasure! Episode #41 features some feedback from listeners of the show. There was too much feedback to fit into one episode so you can expect to hear more in the future. The episode also features a bumper from Sally Norton-Darr and Judith Schoonover about the new version of CAST's BookBuilder.

Positive AACtion - very comprehensive

This collection of parent/staff education handouts, by Rocky Bay, (a provider of disability services in Western Australia), is another real time-saver.

This site highlights the employment successes of people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) who are working in paid jobs in their communities. Through the use of innovative, front-line employment support practices, these individuals are earning money, forming networks, and contributing to their communities. Learn more about these people and the promising practices that led to their success. 

Presentation by Jane Farrall on teaching language & communication from AGOSCI Conference 2015

This program builds graphing skills with lessons and activities involving real-world examples about the environment and recycling.

"Life is filled with chaos, and we have to learn how to work and solve problems in the midst of it every day. These interactive lessons give you the opportunity to experience these daily challenges without real-world consequences."

Life is filled with chaos, and we have to learn how to work and solve problems in the midst of it every day. These interactive lessons give you the opportunity to experience these daily challenges without real-world consequences.

Confirmation Bias is a psychological principle/logical fallacy. This recent (2015) study documents how people will seek out ways to justify or confirm their beliefs when presented with cognitive dissonance. Date: November 16, 2015 Source: University of Iowa Summary: Once people reach a conclusion, they aren't likely to change their minds, even when new information shows their initial belief is likely wrong and clinging to that belief costs real money, new research shows"

"Welcome to Backyard Brains The brain is complex, but extremely fascinating. We need more people interested in studying the brain because 20% of the world will have a neurological disorder... and there are no cures! To study the brain, you typically have to be a graduate student at a major university. Not any more! Backyard Brains enables everyone to be a neuroscientist! We provide affordable neuroscience experiment kits for students of all ages to learn (hands-on) about electrophysiology. Now everyone from schoolchildren to grad students and every grade in between can experiment with similar tools used by real neuroscientists worldwide! By following a few simple steps, everyone can experience first-hand how the brain communicates with our senses, memories, hopes, and desires."

Career Sighted is a new website designed to help students learn a bit about jobs in careers they have an interest in. The videos introduce students to the essential functions of each job and education needed for it. The videos feature real people talking about their jobs and what they like about them.

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of poli

"Create diagrams online Real time collaboration! Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge."

A web-based word processor designed to allow people to work together in real-time.

Make it Real - Give them a Reason to Write! Jonathan Alcorn for The New York Times Update | Feb. 7: We have announced our student editorial-writing contest and published a related lesson plan. What issues do you care most about? What topics do you find yourself discussing most passionately, whether online, at the dinner table, in the classroom or with your friends?

"Reinforce money skills and concepts, with these printables, lesson plans, and quizzes for your mathematics class. The topics learned will help your students in practical, real-life situations now and in the future. Included you'll find lesson plans about the monetary system of ancient civilizations, daily warm-ups for all grade levels, cost-evaluation exercises to build your students awareness of budgets, printable sheets of dollars and coins, activities for holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, quizzes, and much more!"

Provide students with real-world meaningful reasons to write! This NY Times topic listing touches on every aspect of modern life, from politics to sports, culture, education and technology.

Free online audience response system that uses SMS text messages or the web to answer questions with real-time results.

Useful tool for anyone interested in organizing.

Flockdraw is a free to use online whiteboard based painting & drawing tool. It makes it easy to draw online free with multiple people for fun or business. You can have unlimited people in a room and the drawing updates in real time. Uses different colors, shapes and text.Start drawing now!