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Excellent options for shy students or for students who may have issues with speaking. Also good options for presenting ppts when you aren't physically in class but want to make sure that all content is covered.

Some excellent options for adding voice to ppt presentations esp for shy students or students who can't speak. Also good for using when sub is presenting material when you are out.

Great list of search engines for students. Also good for elementary

Great interactive for elementary students on how to do research!

Great for elementary students! Not sure about K-2 but check it out, definitely for 3-9 and even older students! Let me know what you think. I think it could be very useful!

"Project ENABLE (Expanding Nondiscriminatory Access By Librarians Everywhere) training Web site, made possible by a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services. This comprehensive site provides information and instruction on providing effective library and information services to students with disabilities. While the site's main target audience is school librarians, we believe it will be a valuable resource for public and academic librarians, general and special educators, administrators, parents, and their communities. The site contains five self-paced learning modules, jam-packed with useful information in a variety of formats (text, video, photos, graphics, audio over PowerPoint and more). You will find information to read, videos to view, games to play, learning exercises to challenge you, and quizzes to assess your learning. You can take notes along the way and save them to your profile. The site also has the option of allowing a person to register for the training as an individual or for instructors, supervisors or administrators to register their groups or classes for pre-service education or in-service learning."

generates a variety of background noises. This might be a great tool to share with students in your classroom. (Perhaps you can play some white noise from the site during independent work time.) The site can even generate oscillating noise and it also has a sleep timer.

lesson plan for word processing but also to hook students on the idea that they can learn. Worth a try I think for any class to try.

Interesting idea for an intro lesson. Might be fun to try. Very detailed lesson plan description given.

"Brings students face to face with the extraordinary leaders, the visionaries and the pioneers who shaped our world."

Chrome extensions for assertive technology.

Apps for assistive technology. All of these apps cost money.

Interesting ideas for using flickr in the classroom.

Some good ideas for using a photo program like flickr in the classroom. Many students may enjoy working with photos rather than with words.

Speakaboos brings classic children's entertainment into a digital world. Beloved characters and treasured stories are given new life through amazing celebrity performances, beautiful illustrations, and original music. At Speakaboos, children develop literacy skills while learning about technology in a safe and fun environment.

This site looks like lots of fun! Might be too "young" for high school but do check it out anyway, students can record their own stories and there are also stories in Spanish.

If taking notes isn't quite your style, you can import conversations, interviews, lectures, or any other voice recording into free service VoiceBase, which will transcribe them and make them searchable. VoiceBase acts as your personal and public voice recording database. No matter what your recordings-phone conversations, interviews, or presentations-you can import them into VoiceBase and it will transcribe them for you. Once it's done, you can edit the transcription manually for any errors. You can then search the database (either limited to your own recordings, or including public content) for words within the transcriptions. It will highlight your search terms so you can go straight to the part of the recording or transcription that you need-perfect for condensing and extracting quotes from an interview, or for finding important points in a lecture. Right now, you get two hours of storage for free, but you can upgrade to more for a small fee. Hit the link to check it out. If you're an Evernote user, be sure to check out similar service Voice2Note for Evernote integration, too.

this might be useful for special ed students.

"Get your poetry juices flowing with the Poetry Idea Engine. Created with GoCyberCamp, this activity will allow you to write haikus, free verse, limericks, and more!"

Great site for helping students understand poetry.

really useful online dictionary and more with audio!

Very useful online dictionary. The audio feature could be very helpful for students

alternative twitter site; It is designed to be easier to use and is optimized for disabled users.

This is a must see website for anyone dealing with accessibility issues with staff and/or students