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.
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.
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)
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.
Evernote Peek is the first Smart Cover learning app. Connect Peek to your Evernote account and brush up on a language, make flashcards for a quiz or test your trivia knowledge, all by simply peeking under the Smart Cover.
Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one.
We've done all 118 - but our job's not finished. Now we're updating all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments. (U of Nottingham)
Yodio uses your phone number to recognize you and get your recording to the right account. The next step is to create something. Begin thinking about an interesting topic, recent trip, or business idea to record. Or, grab a photo and tell its story!
The Fifty Tools
Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. Again, the mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something.
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.
"YouTube" for Children's eBooks
This site does not have any intention of making any money, ever. Bandwidth and storage are cheap. We just want everybody to have an easy way to find, share, and self-publish their own free children's ebooks,
whether the audience is just their own kids or the whole world.
Choose from a list of hundreds of topics on human biology to view a medical animation or video.
This content is "bandwidth intensive." The latest versions of the following browser plug-ins must be installed: Shockwave and Quicktime.
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.
Amazing resource for educators. Each category (blogging, wikis, social bookmarking etc…) has 5 recommended tools highlighted to try out first. Great place for educators to start learning a new tool.
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.
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.
59 different video presentations, created by teachers, that explore and demonstrate what teachers can do with Smartboards in the classroom - and its all free!