SETSIG UDL Playground

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.

The Word List Generator Project is a database of 2084 words that elementary school teachers can use to help students practice and build sounding out and word-form recognition skills.

A one stop solution for Project Based Learning! You'll find all the resources you need to design and manage high quality projects for middle and high school students.

This is a website to collect and share tools, hardware and applications available for the enhancement of technology in edudcation with emphasis in Special education. We have been collecting material over the last 7 years.

Photos to be used for both personal and commerical free of any charge (must agree and comply with provider's terms and conditions). This is a place for free Photos and Wallpapers, Large collection of high resolution stock photos, Thousands of high quality pictures, easy to search.

Free powerful online computational knowledge engine: answer questions; do math; instantly get facts, calculators, unit conversions, and real-time quantitative data and statistics; create plots and visualizations; and access vast scientific, technical, chemical, medical, health, business, financial, weather, geographic, dictionary, calendar, reference, and general knowledge-and much more.

Just what you think it is - a comprehensive table of applications that go aong with Bloom's Taxonomy of learning.

What does this nifty little $2 app get us? The people who might get mileage out of this one will likely see the value instantly. From a purely practical standpoint as an educator, if you only create one graphic that helps to communicate an idea, then the $2 is worth the outlay. WordFoto is not Photoshop. It is not Illustrator. It only does one thing, and it does so rather simply. If you can get your image of choice into an iOS device, you can manipulate it with ease.

This site will be both a support site for my presentations about iPad use for teaching and learning and it also includes links to other iPad information pages. You can submit your own resource to be added to the site. (Kathy Schrock)

Math manipulatives and activities. Includes: Number and Operations, Geometry, Algebra, Probability, Statistics, Modeling, Trigonometry and Calculus.

This comes from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Great science and math simulations buoyancy, build an atom and bending light. All grade levels!

Great site for all things UDL.

Great instructional website that models and reviews writing frameworks such as recount, persuasive, explanation, description. Animation reviews the components of each framework. Exemplars show the progression of the writing format from Grade 1-6. Templates are downloadable.

Breaks down language into words, sentences, paragraphs. Introduces students to writing with a purpose. Includes audio and visual supports.

This site has free audio to download and listen on-line. For example: under speeches you have downloads and links to Abraham Lincoln, MLK, Susan B. Anthony etc. Some are the actual presenter, others are actors and skilled amateurs.

Great site for teachers and students. Focuses on reading strategies including video, songs, interactive games, posters, lesson outlines, research.

Simulation of taking a trip to the moon

Using Blooms Taxonomy in education is a highly effective way to scaffold learning for the students. With the recent popularity and pervasive nature of iOS devices in school districts it is essential for educators to understand how to implement Blooms in the classroom using the apps that are available.

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope-bringing together imagery from the world's best ground- and space-based telescopes for the exploration of the universe.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Collection of interactive and mostly self-guided lessons on a variety of topics, including Amusement Park Physics, Elements of a Story, The Periodic Table, and The Middle Ages.