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"These apps are all educational in nature and will have you learning about math, science, geography, history, English, and foreign languages; help strengthen your skills with brain exercises and quizzes; provide reference material; and offer opportunities to boost your productivity so you can devote more time to your studies."

"WordAhead Study Room provides a distraction free environment with over 872 difficult words explained using Vocabulary Videos and Flash Cards. More vocab videos continuously added. Join us, its FREE!"

Thanks, Patti. Where do you find such great resources? Lots of implications for UDL and accessibility to the curriculum

"DnaTube is a scientific site providing video based studies, lecturers and seminars. On January 18, 2007, we started DnaTube.com to allow a self-growing community to share their scientific experiences and videos"

"Science students haven't been left out, of course, and there are a wide range of applications offering help with chemistry, biology, astronomy and even the math that comes along with certain fields. If you're a college student looking to supplement your science studies, these apps are some of the best for learning, sharing, researching and just plain having fun."

"Their invention, BeeLine Reader, adds color gradients to passages of text to help readers track lines of text from beginning to end quickly and easily. While independent study is still needed, their initial internal findings suggest BeeLine Reader improves reading speed for most users and may be particularly helpful for users with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and dyslexia."

"Graham's review of the research doesn't resolve the age-old debate of whether students learn writing best naturally -  just by doing it - or through explicit writing instruction. But there are effective practices where the research is unequivocal. Distressingly, many teachers aren't using them. "We have confirmation of things we know that work, but are not applied in the classroom," said Graham."

Study by Ann Kaiser - 2014

Create a digital bulletin board online using sticky notes, due dates with email reminders. Embed photos and videos. Share with others.

"These resources are intended as a starting point to learn more about visual supports and to offer templates and suggestions to begin creating your own visual support material"

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"It's an online interactive English dictionary and thesaurus that helps you find the meanings of words and draw connections to associated words. You can easily see the meaning of each by simply placing the mouse cursor over it." Very similar to Visual Thesaurus, but a free resource.

Site to help you memorize text, lines for a play, etc.

You enter Date you will begin the assignment: Date the assignment is due: Subject area of the assignment: and it generates a timeline of activities to complete assignment

MrNussbaum.com was developed with the idea that crucial concepts, themes, ideas, and fact sets taught in the classroom can be enhanced over the internet through interactivity. Furthermore, for teachers to have a reliable k -8 internet site to use in the computer lab or in the classroom, that likely covers one or many themes currently being taught. MrNussbaum.com offers dozens of interactive games specifically designed to pinpoint one or several essential concepts taught in elementary years, and dozens of research themes designed to make the process of gathering information interactive and enjoyable. MrNussbaum.com, however, does not just present information, but in addition, provides numerous interactive activities to complement the presentation of interactive information.

Great resources on literacy for students with significant idsabilities. Karen Erickson's place

CueCard is a simple and intuitive flash card program. Just make up cards for what you want to memorize, and CueCard will quiz you on them. CueCard automatically focuses on the cards you are having trouble with. CueCard also offers printing, pictures and sounds on cards

"the quickest, most intelligent way to improve your vocabulary. " HOW IT WORKS: 1.Answer a few questions We've created more than 40,000+ questions designed to help you learn words 2. We build a model of your knowledge Our magical technology models your brain. The more you play, the more we know about your vocabulary knowledge. 3.We predict which vocabulary words you don't know and teach them to you Get a question wrong? We'll schedule Review and Progress questions so that you'll learn the word, and won't forget it in the future.

"Coffitivity recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better. Supported by science and backed by a community of creative people using the app every day, Coffitivity is the perfect addition to your workday arsenal!"