resources for teaching students with disabilities

Identifies five "best" screen casting tools, including a new one, ScreenToaster, although I have not yet tried it. 

There are many note-taking and annotation apps listed here. 

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.

Gives clear explanation as to how to set up google drive groups. 

This is a tile site (Symboloo) with hyperlinks to the CCSS. Symboloo is an interesting site to use because of its tile template.

using cell phones

Video of secondary lesson integrating technology - texting

analyzes feature of diigo - very descriptive

free online lectures

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.

From Read,Write, Think

Funded by the Gates Foundation, EdSurge provides reviews of products, publishers an online newsletter and wiki about technology in schools

Funded by the Gates Founcation, EdSurge provides reviews of products, publishers an online newsletter and wiki about technology in schools

It's an iPad program for teachers and students. If a school has a iPad cart, the iPads are distributed to a class of students and then the teacher uses his/her iPad to push PPt's, movies, documents to the students individual iPads. It's very interactive and the teacher can wait for students to respond on their iPads (questions, drawings, quizzes, etc.) before going forward with the lesson. The teacher obtains a roster of students participating and see how each is doing with the lesson tasks.

Free polling software for scheduling times of meetings, etc.

A collection of animations (cartoons) categorized by topic, eg., picture books, fantasy, ghosts, fairy tales, etc.

Check regularly to obtain free apps.