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

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

Pew Resesearch Center survey of almost 2,500 Advanced Placement and National Writing Project Teachers re: impact of digital technologies on middle school and high school student.

Teachers reading for pleasure and talking about it online. Wonderful idea and great use of technology to support independent reading.

The math, language, communication, reading, and writing online modules created by the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies for teachers of children with the most significant intellectual disabilities.

Simplistic. Good read for undergraduates or teachers with little knowledge of either ADHD or writing instruction or both.

Just what it says. Search via categories. 2000 photos currently and 35 new ones added weekly. Great teacher and student resource.

Opinion app for iPad allows up to 10-minute recordings and some editing. StoryCorps.me for iPhone or Android includes interview questions and does NOT require setting up StoryCorps account. Creating account allows you to publish recordings to StoryCorps website.

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

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

Just what it says. Might be interesting ways to share teacher- or volunteer-created read-alouds for kids who need the support, or read-alouds of kids who can speak, who have been practicing repeated reading to build fluency (motivation and utility).

Edutopia links to a variety of short videos on teaching students with disabilities. Particularly useful for inexperienced teachers or teachers unfamiiar with a particular disability.

Videos, notes, all sorts of instructional guidance for teachers wishing to teach children with significant disabilities to read, write, and do math.

Great resource for teachers of children with significant disabilities.

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.

Descriptions and links to lots of useful tools for teachers (especially those in bring your own device (BYOD) schools where resources have been ripped from the education system to balance budgets or cut taxes.

Jim Trelease is well-known journalist and author of "The Read-Aloud Handbook." His website links to many useful resources for teachers, parents, and other readers.

Remarkable resource for beginning readers, their families, and teachers of beginning readers. Tens of 1000's of digital books that can be read online with or without speech support or downloaded for use offline. Each book can be accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches. Parents and professionals may write their own books as well, a great way to create materials targeted to the specific interests of a child or student.

Remarkable array of useful educational technology for teachers. Categorized lists like: 21st Century, web tools, Google tools...

Must follow if you love kids, teachers, books, and reading.

Remarkable resource for teachers. Online tools, lesson resources, activities referenced to standards. Various curricular areas and general tools that are useful across curriculum. Free.