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"a high quality, open source, free reading intervention program for grades PK-6"

lino is a free sticky note and bulletin board that requires nothing but a web browser

"Slideshow Maker, Collage Creator, Photo Editor! Fun and easy-to-use Work completely online Free to join!"

"Here's a rundown of the best s'cool tools from the first quarter of 2013. These are the tools that had you clicking, sharing, and tweeting away. Per the usual, we're only highlighting those tools that are free to use (in some capacity) or currently in beta"

"Aragonese Portal of Augmentative and Alternative Communication gathers in a unique site all the materials, software, pictures and pictograms that facilitate communication of those of our pupils who have educative needs of communication. It also intends to become a useful resource for every teacher, providing sets of tools that ease preparation of their own materials. With that objective in mind, all the materials and tools are presented in a free way under Creative Commons licens"

"Free Online Automatic Text Summarization Tool"

"Text Help has made a new toolbar available for free for anyone who uses Google Docs and the Chrome Browser. What is now possible is dual highlighted (two colors) text to speech in Google Docs! This is huge, an amazing benefit for our struggling readers, writers and researchers."

"raphing Stories is a series of "real world" videos by Dan Meyer and Buzz Math that have a graphing measurements theme. Why in the world would you want to show graphing videos? While that may sound boring, the videos and accompanying graphing worksheet are actually an engaging way to demonstrate these important math concepts. The videos cover topics such as height, distance, time and elevation and students get to see how these math concepts work in their world. The Graphing Stories videos are free to download and as mentioned before, they come with a generic graphing worksheet for you to us"

App to create and collect data on iPad, other tablets or phones Free for teachers

"Please join us on Thursday, March 28th, for the first inaugural School Leadership Summit (SchoolLeadershipSummit.com). This is be a free, global, and online event. We invite school, district, regional, state, national, and other educational leaders to save this date."

"Haiku Deck is a great iPad app for building academic vocabulary - and its free. It provides a student-friendly tool for teaching common core vocabulary standards with motivation and creativity. Good defining skills are rooted in collaborative negotiation of meaning rather than memorizing glossaries and testing via two-column matching questions. "

"Since UDL is in perfect alignment with the Common Core (and I purposely state that as a fact, rather than an opinion), I've decided to dedicate this post to zooming in on a specific lesson. I want to show the value of a UDL mindset that even the busiest of teachers may easily adopt - pain free."

Free resources - Success at the Core began as a question. In 2005, Paul G. Allen, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, asked his production company, Vulcan Productions, how media could be used to make a difference in education. In pursuit of an answer, Vulcan Productions teamed up with Education Development Center and together, we set out to discover if and how media-when used to illustrate good practice and inspire others to achieve the same-can impact student achievement

"  EDUCATION THAT FITS YOUR LIFE! Life Skills is a community school that gives you one-on-one attention and flexible scheduling to help you earn your free high school diploma and achieve future success."

"The remediation-free standards established by the public college and university presidents serve as a clear target for Ohio's educators. "

"Allows teachers & students to quickly ask & answer each other's questions with text & their own videos. This FREE app turns each iPad into a whiteboard that can record voice & visuals for instant classroom sharing. Ideal for K-12 teachers & students with iPads. "

  CAST today announced the release of UDL Exchange, a free website community that enables educators to create, mix, and share lesson plans and other teaching resources based on universal design for learning principles and aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

"The Ohio Department of Education offers you free downloads of two dynamic videos about important new education standards that will blaze the path to better futures for America's students. Suitable for presentation at teacher meetings, parent nights, PTA meetings, association conferences and community events, they can stimulate great conversation about why the standards are necessary and how classroom teaching and learning will change."

"GoClass is a cloud based teaching and learning platform designed for connected mobile devices in the classroom. This App allows you to use several GoClass services and features on Apple iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch devices. If you do not already have a GoClass account you can set one up for free at the GoClass website."

"There are many ways for you to keep all your favorite websites in one location but there is none quite like  All My Favs. This free website turns your bookmarks into your home page by allowing you to store all your favorite sites onto one all encompassing, visually impressive, web page. Creating your page is simple to do and when you are done you can share your page with others"