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The World's First Social eReading Software Interactive reading with your friends, classmates or book club With ReadCloud eBooks become interactive as students can share their thoughts inside an eBook in real-time by posting annotations as text, links, pictures or video or by making direct posts to Twitter/Facebook.

Patti's comment - if only it would read the text aloud the real magic is all the visual elements. You can expand every photo and graphic to fill the whole screen; they look spectacular. At this point, you can interact with them. You can tap the corner of any photo, for example, to see where on the planet it was taken. You can press your finger on a bar of a chart to "explode" it into smaller bars, showing the component data underlying the primary bar. (For example, one bar chart shows the six gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. Hold your finger on a bar to see it split into smaller bars, showing where those gases come from: transportation, buildings and so on.) Some of the illustrations become narrated animations. Some turn out to be movies (there's a total of an hour of video), most narrated by Mr. Gore. The interactivity, the zooming into graphic elements and the videos aren't a gimmick. They actually add up to a different experience"

"Early interventions for autism are increasingly focused on early core developmental abilities. These include a focus on shared attention and affect, joint attention and social motivation to interact with others. Strong theoretical and empirical evidence documents how early learning is facilitated by interactions with others. In this presentation, Dr. Kasari will address targeted interventions for these important core developmental abilities, and how early interventions generate change in the short term and create a platform for later developmental growth. She will also illustrate these changes through our intervention research with toddlers, preschoolers, and school aged children with a particular focus on underserved, under-resourced children with ASD and their families. (#23081)"

"Microsoft today released a preview version of Office Mix, a new PowerPoint addon that lets teachers create rich media presentations and interactive lessons and share them online. Office Mix includes two components: a plugin for PowerPoint and a site where teachers can share their work and view analytics."

"We all know that students find it far more challenging to answer word problems than simple equations. In Math Shake, learners practise the vital skill of solving word problems in a fun, focused way. Learners engage their critical thinking skills as they use the keywords to change word problems into equations and use interactive learning tools to visualise, image and work out their answer. Not only do learners have a range of learning tools at their fingertips, they can share their thinking by recording their working.Teachers and parents can also use Math Shake to teach learners with the interactive tools; including tens frames, number matrixes, fraction parts, number lines and counters. "

"Often we think of Google Slides in terms of linear presentations, with one slide after another in order. However, Google Slides allows you to add hyperlinks to your presentation which can link to other slides within the presentation when clicked. This allows you to create a nonlinear slideshow, where the user can branch off to multiple different slides from any one slide. Linking to other slides can be used to create quizzes where each answer choice leads to a different slide to let you know if you got the correct answer. It can also be used to build an interactive "Choose Your Own Adventure" story where each slide offers choices that lead to different parts of the story."

"AN ONLINE EXAMINATION OF HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY Visually Learn About the Human Body Using Our Interactive "Flash" Animations "

Lots of interactive whiteboard activities

Interactive activities appropriate for Preschool - high school, all content areas

Pattern blocks - use on an interactive whiteboard!

172 free to use educational interactive resources for Primary Schools, from the Cricksoft people.

From HelpKidzLearn - "The Interactive Visual Timetable for Home and School Use. The Down's Syndrome Association have created this software which is ideal for sequencing any series of events, including what will happen at home and in school. It may be especially useful to produce timetables with pictorial clues for young children and those with more complex difficulties."

"The Franklin AnyBook Reader is designed to make any book and interactive, "read to me" book. Essentially you attach special stickers to the pages of books and then when you touch the pen to the sticker it plays back a self-recorded message"

Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs: blog "The Franklin AnyBook Reader is designed to make any book and interactive, "read to me" book. Essentially you attach special stickers to the pages of books and then when you touch the pen to the sticker it plays back a self-recorded message."

"AutisMate is a communication and learning platform that uses interactive scenes to provide intuitive contextual cues coming from the end-user's actual environment. AutisMate integrates AAC with ABA strategies such as video-modeling and visual stories to promote communication, behavior and social skills in one powerful visual platform."

"The Eye Tribe creates software that allows users to interact with their mobile device just by looking at it. Activate the screen, scroll websites automatically as you read and play games using your eyes! "

"My latest multi-touch iBook, Progress and Poverty in Industrial America, is available for your iPad - free / iTunes. It's a great resource for use in the classroom, and serves as a model for teacher or student curation of historic content into interactive digital DBQ's. "

SpeechTechie is an effort to combine my two passions: fostering language development through contextualized intervention, and interactive educational technologies. My goal is to post several resources a week, and present each resource "through the language lens," meaning with an eye toward how the website or program would be helpful in speech and language interventions.  I hope that this blog will be helpful not only to SLPs but also to ESL/ELL teachers, language arts teachers, special education teachers, or anyone who loves words

"Creative Book Builder is a fantastic app that allows students to create books in epub format, which can then be exported to iBooks and shared with others. There are a variety of instructional uses for this app, from using it as a publishing tool for project-based learning to a summative assessment at the end of a unit.  Students can embed images, audio files, video files, and write text.  The advantage of an epub document over a PDF document is that all of the media will be preserved and available for readers to interact with when the final product is published.   Depending on how you use Creative Book Builder with students, this app can help students complete tasks that align with every level of the revised Bloom's Taxonomy.  Explore the different ways this app can be used at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy."

"You can fill your StoryPress Library with audio books that inspire you in different ways: a collection of family stories, or even an audio diary. Make StoryPress interactive: create guided interviews directed by you, with the spoken anecdotes contributed by a mentor, a friend, or a family member, near or far. "

"The training materials cover the following areas of special educational needs (SEN) and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND): Severe learning difficulties (SLD) Profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) Complex learning difficulties and disabilities (CLDD) They are presented in 16 modules within four subject groups and look into topics such as communication and interaction, the context of specialist teaching, insights from neuroscience, working with families, and the legislation around SEND."