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Excellent blog by teacher of students with significant disabilities. Includes nice examples of classroom activities.

Interesting possibility for supporting flipped instruction or providing students with guided viewing experiences. Link to or upload video, edit with comments, directions, tasks, provide links, etc. Interesting instructional possibilities. Only possible downside for instruction is that all projects are made public--that's nice for a learning community but not so great for confidentiality for clinical/classroom vids.

Exemplar text supports broken into grade level bands. Useful for folks looking for texts to implement Common Core (or just provide easier text versions of regular classroom texts.

Rich variety of resources for classroom teachers, or anyone interested in educating teachers and children. Spend some time exploring. Not a quick stop.

Bring world knowledge to your students in interesting ways.

Filmmaker and photojournalist Dan Habib's lecture on value of inclusion for his son, Samuel, a teen with multiple disabilities, and Samuel's peers. Great intro to the topic for preservice teachers, regular classroom teachers, families, the general public, and disability advocates.

Overview of useful features for teachers using Google Docs in the classroom. Greatest instructional advantages: easy collaboration, easy feedback options either as voice or written comments, and track changes.

Tiki-Toki is free, web-based software for creating timelines on the internet. Great classroom activity for capturing highlights of the year, recounting a field trip, etc.

Hiebert's thoughtful and practical website of information about text difficulty with classroom resources.

Support families and students with homework, create greater student independence and understanding, support Flipped classroom activities, and more.

Cute kids talk about letting kids be kids in the classroom.

EdTechReview. Useful resource for checking into tech efficiently. This link looks at online typing tutors.

Easy options for creating educational videos for classes.