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Free app for mobile devices--can listen and record text messages from phone, completely hands free. This application could improve accessibility.

Digital ID is an interesting website that provides informatkon ion digital citizenship..need to join to access everything,

Resources for copyrighting and accessing royalty free media.

Provides free access to current news and events. Students and their teachers can select the lexile that fits their level of comfort. The same text can be accessed at five different lexile levels.

NYSRA Members need to know Volume 20 of the Language & Literacy Spectrum is now online. Members type in their username and password to gain access. Great articles pertaining to Digital Literacy that include social bookmarking, bloggin, wikis and more.

Participation (in class) with new mouse mischief--will work if students have access to computer during PPt. Curious to see this in action.

Henry Jenkins, MIT, issues with digital literacy not allowed in schools nor is collaborative learning, school issues--lack of access to Youube, etc

GoAnimate--teachers can get unlimited access--student accoutns and more. Recommend it.

With Pictello (Mac, iPad, iPhone), voice and words can be added to pictures; great potential for content areas and class summaries (trips and such). Recommend.

I got this grant for my entire class! Their families can easily access USA Today and share it at home! What a perfect home/school connection!

Announcify--reads text to speech..lots of potential here. App for Google Chrome or Android.

Another text-to speech app--need Google Chrome

Good resource for webcollections--this one has apps for iPad

This is a tile-based bookmarking site. Tiles are clustered and one clicks a tile which may hold many bookmarked sites by category. Apparently many schools in California use this site.

Assistive technology--great free resources.

I just used this site/download with an iPod project in my classroom. It is probably the most important site I have found in years. The primes is simple and there are probably pleanty of other sites like it but.... WOW. You can drop your files into the dropbox and they are saved to the "cloud". Then amazingly they are on every computer ( or iPod) you have linked to the account. I entered my account info on the student iPods and made a folder for each student, when they were done with a project, they saved it to the folder. The great thing about this was i could access their assigment from anywhere, my home computer, my iPhone, another iPod in the class, the smart board...it was limitless, I could share it with anyone, no matter where I was...how powerful. I also made a folder of "mrs. Kondrick's resources" where I put videos, audios, assignments, rubrics etc, and then they could watch them/use them at their own pace ( so ethnic that works well with our individualized daily 5 reading block.

Google classroom--good video demonstrations.