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Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning The "Top 25" Web sites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover."

TEaching Core vocabulary videos compiled by PRC

"This unique approach by Pati King-DeBaun was developed to systematically teach communication skills to children who are nonverbal. Highlights will include the Integrated Model of Communication Instruction.Learn more about this model and watch classrooms and students progress"

good stuff

101 WAYS O TEACH CHILDREN SOCIAL SKILLS A READY-TO-USE,REPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITY BOOK

"This post is meant to offer helpful suggestions to all educators who teach students with learning needs. These extensions, like many special education interventions, are beneficial for students with learning disabilities and anyone else who wants to be more productive when using the Google Chrome Browser. "

"Text Help has made a new toolbar available for free for anyone who uses Google Docs and the Chrome Browser. What is now possible is dual highlighted (two colors) text to speech in Google Docs! This is huge, an amazing benefit for our struggling readers, writers and researchers."

"Welcome!!! MrMatt.Org is a free website designed to help educators with assistive and educational technology services. The site contains the opinions of Matt Connell, Educator and Assistive Technology Specialist, and has no connection with any specific developer or service. Matt Connell is an Early Childhood and Special Education teacher in Western Kansas. In addition to teaching three- and four-year-olds with special needs, Matt is also the co-chair of his district's Assistive Technology team."

"We have been doing a lot of  reviews of educational  mobile apps. We particularly focused on the ones that work on iPad and we tried to cover almost all the fields from digital story telling to apps to teach creativity. Our purpose is to provide teachers with a repository of apps to choose from  when trying them with their students in the classroom. Check out the categories below and click on any title to access the correspondent apps it contains. Enjoy"

The SAMR model helps teachers and educators understand and better integrate  technology into their teaching and learning. This model was created by Dr Robin Puentudura with the explicit aim of helping teachers in designing, developing and integrating digital media to increase students overall academic achievements. The four levels of this model are : Substitution, augmentation, modification and redefinition. Have a look at the image below to learn more about these four levels. The image is taken from Summer Tech Institute.

blog post from: Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs

"The Teaching Innovation Progression Chart helps provide teachers with a structure for self-reflection and growth. It is designed to encourage conversation around 21st Century learning and assess progress to meet the goal of full integration of a 21st Century classroom"

"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."

"ere are dozens of free autism social skills teaching resources, most with free pdf downloads.  They are organized by color-coded categories below:  1. Communication/Relationships 2.  Emotions 3. Communication/Relationships/Emotions"

Great post on using symboled text on the iPad

Great blog post of apps categorized by skills from Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs: 

In response to a well-documented need to improve algebra learning, CAST this week released two innovative, research-based educational games that teach essential math reasoning and problem-solving skills. The puzzles-MathScaled and MathSquared-are now available through Apple's iTunes Store at no charge.

  CAST today announced the release of UDL Exchange, a free website community that enables educators to create, mix, and share lesson plans and other teaching resources based on universal design for learning principles and aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

"INFOhio's 21st Century Learning Commons is an online resource for all educators to explore. It is designed to: Enhance 21st century learning Provide a technologically-advanced method to utilize INFOhio electronic resources Foster a sense of global community through a variety of technology and learning methods The Learning Commons provides an array of resources to help educators understand how learning has changed, adapt teaching methods and discover new ways to inspire students to think critically, solve problems, collaborate, innovate and create."

Teaching language, literacy and communication to children who are nonverbal or minimally verbal

Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs blog