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.
Broad Cam Pro--can turn your iPad into a live exhibit..your can showcase and interact with websites and materials on your desktop and record the video. Looks worth the $4.99.
Nanoogo--This FREE site encourages children to be creative and share ideas. It's a cross between a blog and a digital canvas and formatting is really simple. Users just drag and drop the images and text however they wish. There is also a teacher sign up option, which lets you quickly add a whole class or school. Worth a look.
This is a megasite with many links for teaching students with disabiities. The site contains links to text-readers, rubric makers, and a variety of programs and tools for differentiating instruction
Pdfs--A Call for Change, which examines the achievement gap for African American males. Also, Beating the Odds, which looks at student performance on NAEP data (2006-2009)
Just wanted to show you how diigo works. This is a timeline feature that has lots of possibilities (e.g., if you are watching beans sprout, you could record their observations for a science report).
Kim Yaris kyaris@literacy-builders.com, www.literacy-builders.com
This is a very cool site to find words with similar meanings. Type in a word and then a visual web of words with similar meanings.