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This tutorial hits all the important components of creating an accessible website.

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Create a free website using www.weebly.com for classrooms, personal pages or workshops. Easy and free!

Building on the momentum the Obama administration started more than a year ago to stop bullying in schools and communities, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Education Secretary Arne Duncan today unveiled a revitalized Stop Bullying website - www.stopbullying.gov - to encourage children, parents, educators, and communities to take action to stop and prevent bullying. The website provides a map with detailed information on state laws and policies, interactive webisodes and videos for young people, practical strategies for schools and communities to ensure safe environments, and suggestions on how parents can talk about this sensitive subject with their children. The site also explores the dangers of cyberbullying and steps youngsters and parents can take to fight it.

"Welcome to Weather Wiz Kids®. I'm meteorologist Crystal Wicker. I designed this website especially for kids to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather. It's also a wonderful educational website for teachers and parents to give them the right tools to explain the different types of weather to children. "

"Twiddla is a no-setup, web-based meeting playground. Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly. "

Welcome to BridgingApps! Many teachers have found using mobile devices with their students with and without disabilities to be beneficial in numerous ways. However, finding appropriate apps and accessories to meet the needs of your students and your classroom can be challenging and confusing. We view our website as a shortcut in that process. We focus on apps that have been designed to address a particular need or have been creatively adapted by users to meet a specific need. Finding apps is just the first step in an exciting journey of discovery with your students that will involve trial and error. All of the app reviews on our website have been conducted by therapists or special education teachers, and they have been trialed with someone who has a disability. We invite you to explore these pages to help you find the tools you need to get started and to share best practices with us on your journey of discovery.

"We believe that it is more important to focus on the person who will be using the technology, rather than the device itself. We assume that you are here because you want to improve a skill or creatively compensate for a deficit that may be preventing a person with a disability from maximizing their highest potential."

What is chirbit? Record, upload, and share audio easily. Features Share your audio on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, your blog or website. Upload audio in mp3, wav, aiff, wma, ogg, amr, or m4a formats. Record on the go using any smart phone with a voice recorder & email. Browse The Top 100 Chirbit Posts, Featured Chirbits or Twitter to see how others are using chirbit.

"The Sensory Learning NZ website is the home of the Sensory Learning Toolkit (SLTNZ). The SLTNZ has been designed primarily for practitioners of students with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD). We have researched, tried and tested tools to gather data and approaches to learning that are suitable and relevant to this group of students. Tools that show the very small and often subtle changes in student behaviour that show learning and how they learn. At the heart of the SLTNZ is the belief that 'everyone is learner', starting from a base of 'presuming competence' and celebrating achievements. The overriding framework and approach however can be used with higher functioning students of all ages. The tools used to gather data will change but the process will be the same."

Website with links to many online collections of Books

"This website is dedicated to promoting early tactile literacy among blind and severely visually impaired children in their preschool years, and for emerging Braille readers.  "

"Common Sense Media welcomes you to Graphite, a platform we created to make it easier for educators to find the best apps, games, and websites for the classroom. "

A nice collection of strategies for high incidence studnets in a variety of curricular areas. This website provides many wonderful ideas for test taking skills, study skills, reading and much more for students with special needs This website provides man

strategies in Organization, Note Taking, Study Skills, Note Taking, Reading and Writing.

Strategies for organization, test taking, study skills, note taking, and more.

An awesome website that can also be tied to a mobile device to track behavior, attendance and print out data sheets.

This website has lots of TEI questions that make good practice for students taking the math SOL, grades 2 - high school. Tools available for use on the manipulatives include highlighter, pencil, eraser, cross-off.

"Reading website for emerging readers. Free reading games, ideal for interactive whiteboards. Online guided reading stories and teaching resources with lesson plans. "

This website has an extensive collection of free, accessible books on a wide range of topics in five languages. Books can be speech enabled and read aloud online in a choice of three voices, or downloaded and saved as PowerPoint slide shows. Instructions are provided on using alternative access methods, including free downloadable IntelliKeys custom overlays. Wait, there's more! Step by step instructions and resources are provided to create your own accessible books on this site.

"Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is now the most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world. Her fascinating life, with all its challenges and successes has been brought to the screen" Ask Temple section

Collection of interactive websites providing fun and informative games for students to learn about finance and banking