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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

"Hallmark is now offering 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, All the Ways I Love You and Bright and Beautiful in their new Recordable Storybook format. These books allow a parent, grandparent or other to record themselves reading the story and have that recording played back automatically as the pages of the book are turned. A flip of a switch "locks" the recording in even if the batteries die. A very cool idea when used in the way intended, but possibly even cooler if you start thinking about it as an AT adaptable."

Interesting ideas for a traditional product

"I received a question from a technology director this week regarding different options available for text-to-speech conversion software and web-applications. I'm posting what I know here in hopes that others will be able to chime in with more options."

"Welcome to HelpKidzLearn, a web site full of free software and resources from Inclusive Technology. Many activities are switch accessible. Click the buttons at the top to see different sorts of games and activities. Click on the parents button for tips on using this site with your children. (Teachers and helpers are allowed in too!)"

"What is ScienceHack? ScienceHack is a vertical search engine for science videos. Search for science experiments, science projects, science movies and science news. "

"Introducing the enTourage eDGe™ The enTourage eDGe™ is the world's first dualbook, combining the functions of an e-reader, netbook, notepad, and audio/video recorder and player in one. It's a comprehensive device that lets you read e-books, surf the Internet, take digital notes, send emails and instant messages, watch movies and listen to music anywhere, at any time. This is nothing you've ever seen before! Get books wirelessly, move files onto your enTourage eDGe™ using an SD card or a USB flash drive. Use the mini-USB port to move files back and forth from a Windows, MAC, or Linux-based PC. And with a netbook built in, you can forget the limitations of other e-readers, the enTourage eDGe™ does it all! "

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"The web is full of really cool tools you can use to create art! Many are especially fun with a SmartBoard, or you can enhance your own photos. Beyond that, other sites offer an abundance of educational clip art. Give some of these a try:"

a new search engine for images, mostly ones that have a Creative Commons license. It's design is easy to use and automatically shows whatever permissions are required.

"Ray Kurzweil, a prolific inventor who is best known for his prediction that machine intelligence will surpass that of humans around 2045, still has a few things to offer carbon-based life forms. Kurzweil has introduced new e-reader software, called Blio, that approaches e-reading from a completely different angle than the current E Ink-based devices like the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook and Sony Reader."

"Do you own an iPhone? Do you also have toddlers or kids who are about to enter school? Put the iPhone and the kids together with some of the apps listed below to keep the kids busy as they prepare themselves for school. The list below is separated by categories, and each app is listed alphabetically under those categories to show that we do not favor one app over another. The links lead to reviews about the apps or to the businesses that created the apps. This way, you can learn more about the apps before you download them. While many of the apps listed below are free, some cost anywhere from $0.99 to under $4.00. Also, the reviews can help you learn whether the app truly is age-appropriate for your child."

eReader software from Ray Kurzweil, Blio preserves printed format, including layout, fonts, and images true to the book's original form, and in color. A synthesized voice reads the book aloud, synchronized with follow-along word highlighting, Blio offers a large selection of books that otherwise don't translate well into eContent: especially cookbooks, travel guides, how-to books, schoolbooks, and children's stories.

Boardmaker files, Dynamic Display AAC device templates and switch activities

Free software for hands-free computer access - use with a webcam and free dwell-click software (built in or use Sensory Software Dwell Clicker)

A Visual Representation of Bloom's Taxonomic Hierarchy with a 21st Century Skills Frame. For the record...this is an implementation point, a discussion starter. Those of us that provide staff development around instructional technology have identified a need to share more than just tools with teachers. To evaluate them based on Bloom's Taxonomy is simply a way to connect the tools to those that would be identified with the Affective, Psychomotor, or Cognitive domains--specifically the Cognitive. The visual that you see here is the seed of discussion. There are other models in the section to the left called "Ideas for the Visual." I would hope that the critical analysis of what we've started here includes attention to the fact that we are building something from the ground up, starting conversations and collaborating around doing what's best for kids and teachers. This is a work in progress and will continue to evolve.

"On the upper navigation section at the right side of this page you will find the major sections of the course website. On the lower section of the navigation are the individual topic pages. You will find the notes and resources for each topic listed there. "

"Things to Do With a Switch and a Battery Interrupter " blog post from Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs: Kare Ahern

Assistive technology can be tremendously beneficial to all educators, not just those in special ed environments. Atomic Learning is committed to integrating assistive technology into the classroom, and we offer this guide in the spirit of that mission. Click here to view this ebook.

In this section of the exhibit, we hope to share some of the best apps for enabling and empowering students with special learning needs. We hope to show how these can let the iPod touch serve these students in profound and unique ways, letting them to use mobile technology to not only engage, interact, and communicate with others but do it in ways they might not be able to do otherwise. Finally, good luck and please spread the word about this resource so the ideas here can be spread and helping others achieve all they can in teaching and learning.

"We welcome you to our work-in-progress wiki for supporting iPod devices in education. Although our focus is K-12, many of the techniques should work for you at any level and with any number of devices. We are posting as many help and how-to articles here as we can and as quickly as we can so you can continue to be successful using iPod devices in your classroom."

"We have been asked if our other app - Audio Notes, could be more optimized for creating and organizing personal tasks for individuals with disabilities. We thought that it would be great to create an app, which can help thousands of people who rely on visual and auditory supports to do their common tasks easily. We started to collaborate with"