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This PDF, created by the Loudoun County Assistive Technology Team, shows how to create a basic countdown timer in PowerPoint. Countdown timers can support time management and organization. Add your favorite graphics, such as a school mascot, to customize it for your students.

Short tutorial on creating a customized countdown PowerPoint timer. Great for time management and organization!

Looking for games and activities to do with your students to help them learn to use their communication systems more effectively and engage in social interactions? CALL Scotland to the rescue! Their website provides a wealth of free downloadable games and activities designed to provide fun communication opportunities.

"Below, you'll be able to download a short but constructive and fun communication activity for a youngster who uses AAC. The activities aim to help a student to learn and practise - in other words, use! - his or her communication aid to enjoy interactions with others and build up useful social and communicative experiences. To benefit, you first need to ensure that the Talker is always out of its bag, charged up, and on the table/wheelchair mount ready for daily use. That done, even a 5 minute 'gap' can be turned into a useful communication game. The activities are taken from CALL's 'Keep Talking' book, which was inspired by the teacher who, on one of CALL Scotland's visits, said with some desperation 'I know I'm not doing enough. Somehow, my brain goes all fuzzy - I just can't think of any communication games...'."

A short, goofy video describing different assistive technology strategies available in Loudoun County Public Schools

Short video explaining how to get support from the LCPS AT Team BEFORE requesting an AT Evaluation.

See how others have done it.

This past weekend, our department chair received an email from a local high school English teacher who asked, in short, should they be teaching students how to do a "traditional" research paper - including the use of 3×5 note cards - because some of his colleagues are strong supporters of it and others consider it "archaic." He wanted to hear a response from a college professor about how best to prepare students for the kinds of research that they would be doing in composition courses that they would be taking after high school. Below, I have copied and pasted the response that I offered him via email. And, now I ask you… What do you think - is it time to move away from "traditional" research paper writing processes?

A short audio story about a boy who prepares for his shot at taking home the spelling bee championship. Will he succeed?

Episode #58 features a description of how teachers and students can turn text into short, engaging video segments.

At exactly 10:17am ET today the Jovian - Plutonian Gravitational Effect will impact the gravity on Earth. British astrophysicist Patrick Moore discovered that the combined gravitational pull of the alignment of Jupiter and Pluto will cause one to spend a significantly longer amount of time "floating" in the air when jumping up due to an increase in gravitational pull from the celestial objects. Experience the phenomenon by setting a timer and having your entire class jump up into the air at exactly 10:17am. The experience is said to be similar to that of riding a roller coaster or jumping in an elevator as it begins to descend. Experience Zero Gravity! The effect lasts for approximately one minute.

"The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is a hoax phenomenon stated to cause a noticeable short-term reduction in gravity on Earth that was invented for April Fools' Day by the English astronomer Patrick Moore and broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 1 April 1976."

Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one. We've done all 118 - but our job's not finished. Now we're updating all the videos with new stories, better samples

The Classics for Younger Children books are illustrated.

Short real-life 5 minute videos for implementing strategies in the classroom

Create animated .gif out of pixels. Implementation ideas might be to create and animate characters, create short visualizations of language concepts, or just was a fun form of expression!

YouTube playlist of short videos created by educators to teach students core vocabulary words.

Check this out by typing a word or phrase in the search to see the sign

Communication Matters is committed to supporting people who find communication difficult because they have little or no clear speech. You will find here information on methods of communication which can be used to supplement the more usual methods of speech and writing. These methods are called Augmentative and Alternative Communication, or AAC for short.

Short and fun vocabulary videos intended to aid students build a strong vocabulary and are especially helpful in preparing for standardized tests such as SAT, ACT and GRE.

FHR TRT short videos of tips  in MSWord

Great place to publish and read short stories for children, teens and adults.