SETSIG UDL Playground

Use this interactive tool to create free-from graphic organizers.

Brainstorming and mindmapping collaboratively on the web.

This page is the access point for the USDA Food Guidance System

Free VOIP calling, web and video chat.

Supported environment for creating graphs and charts.

"Welcome to SAM Animation: Stop-motion animation software for students and teachers. SAM Animation is user-friendly software designed specifically for students and teachers for classroom use. Designed with sustained input from teachers and students across the world, SAM Animation allows users to make stop-motion animations of whatever content they choose."

"Camera Mouse is a free program that enables you to control the mouse pointer on your computer screen just by moving your head. To use Camera Mouse you need a Windows 7, Vista, or XP computer and a webcam. "

"Welcome parents and teachers to the Read with Me eBooks. This program is designed to be a fun way to develop your children's early literacy skills as you read story books with them. In the books For Children, you will find coaches, Pedro, Hali, and Monty who give ideas of how to talk with children about the books. In the books For Teachers and Parents, there is also another coach named Terry, who talks about literacy development and suggests fun activities to do with children. "

"Pacecar is an online reading tool, designed to help you read faster and with more focus. It masks the distracting elements on the page, giving you a reading window that follows your mouse. "

Video descriptions of vocabulary

Online graphical dictionary

"Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages."

Lesson plans, audio books, strategies, and a "UDL Curriculum Barriers and Solutions Finder".

"Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."

"WatchKnow has indexed over 20,000 educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7. Users can dive into our innovative directory or search for videos by subject and age level. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are all edited for usefulness. Our Web site invites broad participation in a new kind of wiki system, guided by teachers. We have had a tremendously positive response from educators to the website. If we continue to work together, we can create an incredible, free, educational resource for students across the world."

"The Sandbox is the Lab's way of sharing high-quality video clips with you - for free. Use our clips to make a mash-up, documentary, music video, or whatever!"

"The Bugscope project provides free interactive access to a scanning electron microscope (SEM) so that students anywhere in the world can explore the microscopic world of insects. This educational outreach program from the Beckman Institute's Imaging Technology Group at the University of Illinois supports K-16 classrooms worldwide. "

Online video editing.

"Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges. You can interact with Wiffiti from your mobile phone or the web."

* Easily create a classroom website & blog * Manage your students' accounts * Accept homework assignments online * Keep your parents up to date