York Ed Tech Council

Pdf handout for getting started with Prezi.

Seven free resources that pack the punch of Photoshop's bells and whistles without the price.

The past few years have seen an explosion of disruptive technologies that challenge the way we think, the way we operate, and the status quo of educational practice. Understandably, critical questions have emerged regarding the use of these technologies in education. Do they actually lead to new literacies, or do they simply provide a new context for the development of skills educators have always valued? What impact are they really having on students and schools? How can organizations implement, evaluate, and sustain these technologies in the service of learning?

Welcome to the CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Book Builder! Use this site to create, read, and share engaging digital books that build reading skills for students. Your universally designed books will engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

Useful presentation and good example of Prezi.

Do you Tweet? Moodle? Blabber? Voki? Glog? Learn about 10 cool tools that can be used to engage students, develop a PLN (personal learning network), and help you to be a more efficient and effective teacher. Links provided to hundreds more.

The Google Checkout store gadget allows you to quickly and easily create an online store using a Google Docs spreadsheet. No complicated coding or technical tasks are required. You can get your first online store up-and-running in under five minutes.

Thinking about using this for an online school store.

An elementary library site. Amazing.

An elementary library site.

Dirpy Studio converts your favorite YouTube videos to high quality mp3's in real time, or lets you download the video directly.

Where the world goes to talk about science.

Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it via Twitter or email. Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like. To start recording, click on the red button. No need to install or download anything!

It is time you took that game you created and publish it. No more homemade board or cards. You have arrived. Now, publish it! Make a game, get the gameboard.

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the executive branch of the federal government.

Try the Salt Volcano, Bubble Bomb or other hundreds of other hands-on activities from the Exploratorium.

Here you will find the Top 10 Language Blogs in the category 'Language Technology'. This category is for blogs discussing technology as part of the language learning process.

Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, so we can show you results as they happen, including Twitter

Schools need to prepare students for a lifetime of storytelling through a variety of media, so that students can have a voice, and a voice that is heard.