Booktrack represents a new chapter in the evolution of storytelling, and an industry "first" in publishing, by creating synchronized soundtracks for e-books that dramatically boost the reader's imagination and engagement. The company's proprietary technology combines music, sound effects and ambient sound, automatically paced to an individual's reading speed. Funded by investors including, Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, and member of Facebook's board of directors -- and in partnership with the largest publishing houses, best-selling authors, and award-winning composers and musicians -- Booktrack is already well on its way to creating a new genre of entertainment. Download Booktracks in the Apple App store for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

"A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. Free."

"A Visual Representation of Bloom's Taxonomic Hierarchy with a 21st Century Skills Frame."

"Technology provides a terrific way to remove the obstacles to learning. Fortunately, many of the tools available are free but what are they? I reached out to my PLN through Facebook, Twitter, Classroom 2.0 and Google+ to find out. Here are the fabulous resources shared by my PLN. "

"These are electronic devices, equipment and technical aids specially designed to improve disabled people autonomy"

"slidestaxx enables you to gather various social media into a beautiful slideshow for your blog, website or directly on slidestaxx. It's fast, easy and free!"

Make stop-motion films with a web-cam or a bunch of photos. No fancy features yet, but great for starting off or mucking about. FREE.

"About this webmix : Most of the sites from the 60 in 60 session at ISTE 11. These are educational sites to try and integrate into your classroom."

We're putting everything you need to know about learning to use iPad at your fingertips. So now is a great time to get started exploring the possibilities. See how iPad gives you and your students the best way to view videos, engage with content, create projects, and turn learning into a hands-on experience."

"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. "

AT info good for our AT in the IEP group

"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) provides a foundation for professional development for technology integration and a common vocabulary for talking about effective uses of technology in teaching and learning."

"Welcome to the SETSIG 2011 UDL Playground Resources Page! On these pages you will find a number of resources that you can use to help realize UDL in your classroom! We have worked hard to compile these resources but this is a LIVING list and anyone can add to it. In keeping with our theme of UDL, we are presenting multiple ways to access this list. The links below provide you different representations and different ways of engaging with these resources."

Universal Design for Learning: A Rubric for Evaluating Your Course Syllabus

"Through this Joint UDL Project, teams of classroom teachers from general education and special education with the support of principal leadership, university educators with support of university administrators, and RI Department of Education representatives participated in training held at Rhode Island College and conducted by the Sherlock Center and consultants for the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) in January 2008. Twelve universally-designed curriculum units were cooperatively developed as a result of this training. Teachers, university educators, and others are encouraged to use these units as examples and guides for practical implementation of UDL in elementary, middle, secondary, and post-secondary classrooms."

Rhode Island Modified UDL Educator Checklist - Version 1.2 (11/08/09)

Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Blog - "rubric to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of an app in terms of how it may impact student achievement. His criteria include curriculum connection, authenticity, feedback, differentiation, user friendliness, and student motivation"

"The Free Online ePub Converter 2EPUB allows you to convert PDF, doc and other types of documents & books to ePub format, the standard format for ebooks, supported by almost every reading device including iPad, iPhone, iPod, Sony Reader, BeBook, Nook, Kobo (for Kindle use .mobi)."

"In the coming months, the Hacking Autism Hackathon will pull together a volunteer group of software developers with leading autism specialists to work together to develop groundbreaking, touch-enabled applications for the autism community. But this program starts with you. Share your ideas, comment on existing ideas and choose your favorites to help our advisory board bring to life the most impactful applications and make this software available, right here at HackingAutism.org."