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This website has it all and is a super resource. You can find everything from Assistive technology videos to blogs to project based learning, strategies, and more. Tons of literacy rich ideas, tips, strategies!

Here's a really useful app for writing for folks who use Braille.

We'll spend some time with assistive technology as a topic in this course. This is a very cool app.

Always good to have light tech options.

Evernote is used to organize information. It is a free site that can be downloaded and used anywhere. You can save things you like, find, make, see, and hear. There are ways in can be used with students in the classroom and students could even use it at home.

Eric Sailers, an SLP, created and updated this extensive list of apps for all sorts of uses with all sorts of students in special education. Wonderful resource last updated Oct. 2011.

Blog on a variety of different technology issues and ideas!

These free applications provide a wide variety of engaging learning opportunities for young students (and you can't beat the price). The Apple iPad is becoming more popular in our schools every day (just check out this EmergingEdTech video to appreciate how quickly the iPad is gaining hold in our schools).

Tag Literacy Center sounds great for small groups or independent work for young elementary school children.

Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

The National Reading Panel (NRP) was created by Congress and charged with the task of evaluating different approaches used to teach children to read and assessing the effectiveness of each.

Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better.The reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

I have gotten really great reading strategies from this website.

This site has a ton of reading tips, strategies, lessons, technological resources, and activities geared to help parents, teacher, and all involved with teaching/learning reading! There are author interviews here as well!

One of my favorite tech videos of all time. Clever and funny portrayal of book as a new technology requiring help desk assistance.

This site gives a brief definition of what literacy means. It points out that literacy is not just knowing isolated pieces of information, but rather having the ability to use language in broader ways. This site also provides literature "Research" information and additional websites and resources for teachers.

I thought this site was very detailed and thought through to help assist teachers or educators with their questions about literacy. On the website you will find the definition of literacy, their literacy beliefs, literature review, action research, references, and favorite literacy web sites. Under literacy beliefs, they have broken down the term into four categories- learner, curriculum, teacher, and assessment. This is great for educators as they can read specific beliefs on literacy based on the specific topic of interest or need.

Sally Shaywitz's center. Links to info on dyslexia research, resources for parents and for educators.

This site contains 100's of links to websites related to using technology in the classroom! There are links such as; going digital in the classroom, smartboard activities, 1001 uses for a digital camera, digital edge learning exchange and so much more!

Bookshare is an online library of digital books for people with print disabilities. Members can download books, textbooks, and newspapers in a compressed, encrypted file, then read the material using adaptive technology. Through an award from the federal Education Department, Bookshare offers free memberships to U.S. schools and qualifying U.S. students!

This is a neat blog I found that has cool ideas about ipad integration in the classroom, apps to use, and other resources for 21st century learners.