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PHOTOSTORY
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson986/photo.pdf
Free Text to Speech
Natural Reader - another free text-to-speech software program which converts any written text to speech (Word, pdf, websites, emails)
Click,Speak - a free Firefox extension that reads the Internet and highlights phrases and sentences as it reads
PowerTalk - free text-to-speech for PowerPoint presentations
Talklets - make any website talk, embed in your website, blog or wiki
Read The Words - Register first, upload file or choose text or website to read, a recording is generated which you can listen to online or download to an mp3 player, upload to a blog, etc. Very Cool tool worth letting your students explore.
Spoken Text - online text-to-speech MP3 converter
YakIToMe! - Listen to important documents, PowerPoint presentations, emails, RSS feeds, blogs and novels. YAKiToMe! is multi-lingual (English, Spanish, French ...) and brings you the world's best text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis technologies. Easily converts to podcasts
Free Graphic Organizers
Bubbl.us - free brainstorming and organizing tool
Mindomo - online mind-mapping tool, easily share with others.
Belvedere - designed for k-12 population
CMAP - concept maps
Free Mind - mind-mapping tool
Mindomo - mind-mapping tool
MindMeister - online collaborative graphic organizing tool
Exploratree - thinking guides and more (definitely worth exploring)
Dabbleboard - freehand graphic organizer and visual whiteboard, fun and easy to use
Thinkature Draw diagrams to illustrate complex ideas
Gliffy Create and share diagrams on the Web
Read/Write/Think Webbing Tool
Best4C-(for upper grades) >
Multimedia and Storytelling
Voice Thread - capture audio for online digital storytelling. THIS IS A MUST HAVE! This is one of the best tools for reaching the needs of all the learners in our classrooms, for all content areas from K-12. The pro version is free to K-12 educators. Make sure you watch the excellent tutorials to take advantage of all the features this tool has to offer.
Photo Story 3 for Windows - you will be amazed at how quickly you can create slide shows or movies from your class photos. Upload your photos in seconds, easily add music and you have a year end presentation of your class activities. MANY other uses.
FlowGram -
Animoto - create fully customized videos of user-selected images and music almost instantaneously. The web application does all the work once you select your images and audio. This one is so cool!
ScrapBlog - Create online multimedia scrapbooks from your text, video, audio and photos
Flip Books - Create online multimedia scrapbooks from your text and photos
Building Wings: How I Made it Through Schooll - A free "Readers Theater Implementation Toolkit" accompanies this autobiography by Don Johnston "which helps learners take charge of their learning potential!" Learned about this from Valerie who left a comment.
50 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (Alan Levine--CogDogRoo)
Study Skills Tools
CueCard - an electronic flashcard program download with multiple features including ability to import audio and graphics. Keeps track of correct responses and can be printed out.
Study Stack - create interactive web-based flashcards or use ones that are already created; if you use stacks that are already created, check them first as there are errors in several of the created stacks.
Flash Card Machine - allows the user to create interactive web-based study flash cards.
Flash Card Friends - online, interactive flash cards
Quizlet - described as an online tool for learning vocabulary
Awesome Highlighter - tool that highlights text on a web page; save the URL or email it
-Create note taking templates in Word
-Use "Power of Color" within Word (background color, highlighting color and font color tools) to reinforce concepts, to determine salient points and for review
-Use the "Organizational Chart" in the Diagram Gallery that is part of the Drawing Toolbar in Word to reinforce concepts and relationships which promotes learning.
-In Word, press the Alt tab + mouse click within a word to access the Research pane. When you are online, you will instantly get a definition of the word.
Literacy Tools
StarFall - Pre-K - 2nd grade online activities that promote literacy
GenieBooks - Decodable books in Powerpoint
LookyBook A collection of online"flippable" picture books
Story Line Online - Listen to stories read by Screen Actors Guild members - follow along with the text
Planet eBooks - Free classic literature to download (middle school and up)
Cast UDL Book Builder - Check out a previous post to learn about this free online tool for creating digital books with embedded prompts.
UDL Editions - Leveled support for seven texts geared for ages 10 and up
Poetry Foundation - free resource to find poetry by category, by name, by title, by author, or by first line. It's digital, attach a voice and it's now accessible!
Literactive- interactive primary reading activities
Tar Heel Reader Here you’ll find a collection of easy-to-read books on a wide variety of topics. Each book is switch accessible an d speech enabled. You may download the books as a slide show in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format.
Writing Tools
Let Me Type -Free Word Prediction
Wacky Web Tales - an online "madlib" tool
Writing Fix - Interactive Writing Prompts
Read/write/think- Interactive digital activities (click the interactive links - there are many to choose from)
OurStory
Mnemograph - collaborative, online Time Line tools
ToonDoo - Online comic strip creator
Ghotit - Online context spell checker service, the BEST spell checker for students with LDs! Tell them to add it to their home computers.
Scholastic: Story Starters for Grades 1-4 - Story Starters is20a bank of writing prompts. Student spins the lever to get a writing prompt. To allow for even greater creativity, the student can spin wheels to change any part of the prompt.
Collaborative Tools
Google Docs and Spreadsheets - allows students to collaborate on work from any computer including while at home
Zoho - full suite of online, collaboration tools - word processor, presentation, notetaking (can insert audio), spreadsheets, planner. Worth exploring!
Go 2 Web 2.0 - here you will find every Web 2.0 application imaginable. There are tools for everything. Constantly updated!
Web 2.0 Tools - (These tools especially benefit the learner with reading, organizational or attentional issues as the material can be easily retrieved, read or listened to online)
-Wikis - provide group collaboration opportunities and study guides
-Blogs - provide opportunities for written expression without time constraints and can use text-to-speech, spell check, grammar check etc. before posting. Blogs are great for students who are less vocal IN class, for a vari ety of reasons, but still want a chance to participate in discussions
-Podcasts/videocasts
-Web-based social bookmarking tools such as Delicious or Portaportal - create class favorites that your students can retrieve anywhere to help them study
Research Tools
UDL Strategy Tutor
Reference Portals
EverNote - Notetaking tool on Steroids; capture, clip, save and share - watch the video but think of the education applications
For documentation:
Bib Me - Bibliography Maker
EasyBib - Bibliography Composer
Research & Documentation Online Download sample papers (MLA & APA styles) with Hacker & Fister's well-known guide
NoodleBib MLA Starter
Citation Machine > For note-taking
UberNote (for tagged notecards and notes)
Google Notebook
Alternate search tools:
Clusty(clustered search with vocabulary and category supports)
Grokker (offers both map and cluster results)
Kartoo (visual search shows relationships)
Quintura (tag clouds suggest keywords and categories)
Soople (busts out Google's features)
Jux2 (compare Google, Yahoo, and MSN with One Search)
Debbie Abilock's Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Need Search engines for Kids
Ask for Kids (reference, question answering)
KidsClick! (directory selected by librarians)
Yahoo Kids (for grades 2-7 organized by topic)
Library resource portals:
Internet Public Library great resources on any subject for any age
Multnomah County Library Homework Center subject-organized resources for the most-assigned projects
LibrarySpot
News, Magazines, more:
Internet Public Library: Magazines
HeadlineSpot
Joyce's NewsWiki
Math Tools
Math Playground - excellent site for Math activities for K - 8, make sure to explore the Mathcasts. Mathcasts allow students to review math when THEY need to.
Thinking Blocks - a creative, interactive math resource to help students understand how to solve word problems. Watch the video here to learn how to use it.
GraphCalc - Online Graphing Calculator
Create A Graph>
e-Tutor Graphic Calculator Graph equations
FooPlot - Online plotting tool
PDF Pad - Create and print graph paper
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis)
Additional FREE TOOLS
Project Spectrum - Google Sketchup Tutorial for use with students on the Autism Spectrum
ZacBrowser - Web Browser designed by a grandfather for his grandson who is on the Autism Spectrum. Appropriate for young children or those with developmental disabilities
Do to Learn - Free Feelings and Emotions Games, excellent for social skills instruction, also check out the Fire Safety and Street Safety songs for students with cognitive disabilities
Yackpack - audio email or free live conferencing
Eyejot - "Video messaging in a blink," video email tool
Better Fonts - Dafonts - free fonts
PDF Creator or Cute pdf - free PDF conversion tools
Diigo - a powerful social annotation research tool, with highlighting features
Cast UDL Lesson Builder - provides educators with models and tools to create and adapt lessons that increase access and participation in the general education curriculum for all students.
Checklists - linear alternative to rubrics, easily create guides for students' projects.
Visual Schedules - best for younger students.
Note Star - helps organize notes and bibliographies for essays and research papers.
Imagine Symbols - 4000 free realistic symbols. Import these into your clip art folder for easy access.
Audacity - Free, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds
Jott - Use a cell phone to send emails or voice messages, great for students to send themselves reminders, homework assignments, to-do lists, summaries of class instruction ,etc. This can be an effective strategy for students with executive function, organization or written output issues.
Click N Type Virtual On Screen Keyboard
Pics4Learning - copyright friendly image library for teachers and students
Book Share
http://www.bookshare.org

PHOTOSTORY
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson986/photo.pdf
Free Text to Speech
Natural Reader - another free text-to-speech software program which converts any written text to speech (Word, pdf, websites, emails)
Click,Speak - a free Firefox extension that reads the Internet and highlights phrases and sentences as it reads
PowerTalk - free text-to-speech for PowerPoint presentations
Talklets - make any website talk, embed in your website, blog or wiki
Read The Words - Register first, upload file or choose text or website to read, a recording is generated which you can listen to online or download to an mp3 player, upload to a blog, etc. Very Cool tool worth letting your students explore.
Spoken Text - online text-to-speech MP3 converter
YakIToMe! - Listen to important documents, PowerPoint presentations, emails, RSS feeds, blogs and novels. YAKiToMe! is multi-lingual (English, Spanish, French ...) and brings you the world's best text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis technologies. Easily converts to podcasts
Free Graphic Organizers
Bubbl.us - free brainstorming and organizing tool
Mindomo - online mind-mapping tool, easily share with others.
Belvedere - designed for k-12 population
CMAP - concept maps
Free Mind - mind-mapping tool
Mindomo - mind-mapping tool
MindMeister - online collaborative graphic organizing tool
Exploratree - thinking guides and more (definitely worth exploring)
Dabbleboard - freehand graphic organizer and visual whiteboard, fun and easy to use
Thinkature Draw diagrams to illustrate complex ideas
Gliffy Create and share diagrams on the Web
Read/Write/Think Webbing Tool
Best4C-(for upper grades) >
Multimedia and Storytelling
Voice Thread - capture audio for online digital storytelling. THIS IS A MUST HAVE! This is one of the best tools for reaching the needs of all the learners in our classrooms, for all content areas from K-12. The pro version is free to K-12 educators. Make sure you watch the excellent tutorials to take advantage of all the features this tool has to offer.
Photo Story 3 for Windows - you will be amazed at how quickly you can create slide shows or movies from your class photos. Upload your photos in seconds, easily add music and you have a year end presentation of your class activities. MANY other uses.
FlowGram -
Animoto - create fully customized videos of user-selected images and music almost instantaneously. The web application does all the work once you select your images and audio. This one is so cool!
ScrapBlog - Create online multimedia scrapbooks from your text, video, audio and photos
Flip Books - Create online multimedia scrapbooks from your text and photos
Building Wings: How I Made it Through Schooll - A free "Readers Theater Implementation Toolkit" accompanies this autobiography by Don Johnston "which helps learners take charge of their learning potential!" Learned about this from Valerie who left a comment.
50 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (Alan Levine--CogDogRoo)
Study Skills Tools
CueCard - an electronic flashcard program download with multiple features including ability to import audio and graphics. Keeps track of correct responses and can be printed out.
Study Stack - create interactive web-based flashcards or use ones that are already created; if you use stacks that are already created, check them first as there are errors in several of the created stacks.
Flash Card Machine - allows the user to create interactive web-based study flash cards.
Flash Card Friends - online, interactive flash cards
Quizlet - described as an online tool for learning vocabulary
Awesome Highlighter - tool that highlights text on a web page; save the URL or email it
-Create note taking templates in Word
-Use "Power of Color" within Word (background color, highlighting color and font color tools) to reinforce concepts, to determine salient points and for review
-Use the "Organizational Chart" in the Diagram Gallery that is part of the Drawing Toolbar in Word to reinforce concepts and relationships which promotes learning.
-In Word, press the Alt tab + mouse click within a word to access the Research pane. When you are online, you will instantly get a definition of the word.
Literacy Tools
StarFall - Pre-K - 2nd grade online activities that promote literacy
GenieBooks - Decodable books in Powerpoint
LookyBook A collection of online"flippable" picture books
Story Line Online - Listen to stories read by Screen Actors Guild members - follow along with the text
Planet eBooks - Free classic literature to download (middle school and up)
Cast UDL Book Builder - Check out a previous post to learn about this free online tool for creating digital books with embedded prompts.
UDL Editions - Leveled support for seven texts geared for ages 10 and up
Poetry Foundation - free resource to find poetry by category, by name, by title, by author, or by first line. It's digital, attach a voice and it's now accessible!
Literactive- interactive primary reading activities
Tar Heel Reader Here you’ll find a collection of easy-to-read books on a wide variety of topics. Each book is switch accessible an d speech enabled. You may download the books as a slide show in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format.
Writing Tools
Let Me Type -Free Word Prediction
Wacky Web Tales - an online "madlib" tool
Writing Fix - Interactive Writing Prompts
Read/write/think- Interactive digital activities (click the interactive links - there are many to choose from)
OurStory
Mnemograph - collaborative, online Time Line tools
ToonDoo - Online comic strip creator
Ghotit - Online context spell checker service, the BEST spell checker for students with LDs! Tell them to add it to their home computers.
Scholastic: Story Starters for Grades 1-4 - Story Starters is20a bank of writing prompts. Student spins the lever to get a writing prompt. To allow for even greater creativity, the student can spin wheels to change any part of the prompt.
Collaborative Tools
Google Docs and Spreadsheets - allows students to collaborate on work from any computer including while at home
Zoho - full suite of online, collaboration tools - word processor, presentation, notetaking (can insert audio), spreadsheets, planner. Worth exploring!
Go 2 Web 2.0 - here you will find every Web 2.0 application imaginable. There are tools for everything. Constantly updated!
Web 2.0 Tools - (These tools especially benefit the learner with reading, organizational or attentional issues as the material can be easily retrieved, read or listened to online)
-Wikis - provide group collaboration opportunities and study guides
-Blogs - provide opportunities for written expression without time constraints and can use text-to-speech, spell check, grammar check etc. before posting. Blogs are great for students who are less vocal IN class, for a vari ety of reasons, but still want a chance to participate in discussions
-Podcasts/videocasts
-Web-based social bookmarking tools such as Delicious or Portaportal - create class favorites that your students can retrieve anywhere to help them study
Research Tools
UDL Strategy Tutor
Reference Portals
EverNote - Notetaking tool on Steroids; capture, clip, save and share - watch the video but think of the education applications
For documentation:
Bib Me - Bibliography Maker
EasyBib - Bibliography Composer
Research & Documentation Online Download sample papers (MLA & APA styles) with Hacker & Fister's well-known guide
NoodleBib MLA Starter
Citation Machine > For note-taking
UberNote (for tagged notecards and notes)
Google Notebook
Alternate search tools:
Clusty(clustered search with vocabulary and category supports)
Grokker (offers both map and cluster results)
Kartoo (visual search shows relationships)
Quintura (tag clouds suggest keywords and categories)
Soople (busts out Google's features)
Jux2 (compare Google, Yahoo, and MSN with One Search)
Debbie Abilock's Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Need Search engines for Kids
Ask for Kids (reference, question answering)
KidsClick! (directory selected by librarians)
Yahoo Kids (for grades 2-7 organized by topic)
Library resource portals:
Internet Public Library great resources on any subject for any age
Multnomah County Library Homework Center subject-organized resources for the most-assigned projects
LibrarySpot
News, Magazines, more:
Internet Public Library: Magazines
HeadlineSpot
Joyce's NewsWiki
Math Tools
Math Playground - excellent site for Math activities for K - 8, make sure to explore the Mathcasts. Mathcasts allow students to review math when THEY need to.
Thinking Blocks - a creative, interactive math resource to help students understand how to solve word problems. Watch the video here to learn how to use it.
GraphCalc - Online Graphing Calculator
Create A Graph>
e-Tutor Graphic Calculator Graph equations
FooPlot - Online plotting tool
PDF Pad - Create and print graph paper
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis)
Additional FREE TOOLS
Project Spectrum - Google Sketchup Tutorial for use with students on the Autism Spectrum
ZacBrowser - Web Browser designed by a grandfather for his grandson who is on the Autism Spectrum. Appropriate for young children or those with developmental disabilities
Do to Learn - Free Feelings and Emotions Games, excellent for social skills instruction, also check out the Fire Safety and Street Safety songs for students with cognitive disabilities
Yackpack - audio email or free live conferencing
Eyejot - "Video messaging in a blink," video email tool
Better Fonts - Dafonts - free fonts
PDF Creator or Cute pdf - free PDF conversion tools
Diigo - a powerful social annotation research tool, with highlighting features
Cast UDL Lesson Builder - provides educators with models and tools to create and adapt lessons that increase access and participation in the general education curriculum for all students.
Checklists - linear alternative to rubrics, easily create guides for students' projects.
Visual Schedules - best for younger students.
Note Star - helps organize notes and bibliographies for essays and research papers.
Imagine Symbols - 4000 free realistic symbols. Import these into your clip art folder for easy access.
Audacity - Free, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds
Jott - Use a cell phone to send emails or voice messages, great for students to send themselves reminders, homework assignments, to-do lists, summaries of class instruction ,etc. This can be an effective strategy for students with executive function, organization or written output issues.
Click N Type Virtual On Screen Keyboard
Pics4Learning - copyright friendly image library for teachers and students
Book Share
http://www.bookshare.org
Accessible Book Collection
Provides Digital Text to people with disabilities
http://accessiblebookcollection.org/
Online Interactive Lessons:
Online Lesson from Curriculumbits:
http://www.curriculumbits.com/
Here is a one on Hurricane's (must-see)
www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/geo0008.html
News Websites:
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/

Favorite Links
to Ask http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
Kid Safe Search Engines
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
KID SAFE SEARCH ENGINES
Ask for whole question.
http://www.askkids.com/http://www.askkids.com/
CyberSleuth Kids K-12 kids
http://cybersleuth-kids.com/ http://cybersleuth-kids.com/
Kids Click: A web guide and search tool for kids put together by librarians. Fifteen major categories each with several subcategories, this site has a look similar to Yahoo. http://www.kidsclick.org/
above 10)
http://www.ithaki.net/kids/ http://www.ithaki.net/kids/
Kids.Net - clean sites.
http://www.kids.net.au/ http://www.kids.net.au/
Kids' Search and more.
http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
Quintura Kids for Kids
http://quinturakids.com/ http://quinturakids.com/
Super Kids the Web http://www.super-kids.com/ http://www.super-kids.com
AUDACITY
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Audacity_Wiki_Home_Page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5K1ZsoO1sU
http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/audacity-tutorial.html
FOR LESSON DESIGN!!!!!!!!!!DESIGN
http://people.uwec.edu/CRAKERBR/audacity_lesson.pdf
http://storiesforchange.net/resource/yearup_digital_storytelling_manual

Favorite Links
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
Search Engines Ask
Ask for Kids whole question. http://www.askkids.com/ CyberSleuth
http://www.askkids.com/
CyberSleuth Kids - K-12 kids http://cybersleuth-kids.com/ Kids
http://cybersleuth-kids.com/
Kids Click: A Yahoo. http://www.kidsclick.org/ ithaki.net
ithaki.net - a above 10) http://www.ithaki.net/kids/ Kids.Net
http://www.ithaki.net/kids/
Kids.Net - Search clean sites. http://www.kids.net.au/ Kids'
http://www.kids.net.au/
Kids' Search Tools and more. http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm Quintura
http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
Quintura Kids - for Kids http://quinturakids.com/ Super
http://quinturakids.com/
Super Kids - Web http://www.super-kids.com/
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Audacity_Wiki_Home_Page
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5K1ZsoO1sU
http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/audacity-tutorial.html
HANDOUT FOR LESSON DESIGN!!!!!!!!!!
http://people.uwec.edu/CRAKERBR/audacity_lesson.pdf
http://storiesforchange.net/resource/yearup_digital_storytelling_manual
PHOTOSTORY
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson986/photo.pdf

Favorite Links
Ask http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html Kid
Kid Safe Search whole question. http://www.askkids.com/ http://www.askkids.com/ CyberSleuth Kids

Favorite Links
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html Kid Safe Search Engines Ask for Kids - Just type in a question and click Ask! Actually a word or two works just as well as a whole question. http://www.askkids.com/ CyberSleuth Kids - an Internet guide for K-12 kids http://cybersleuth-kids.com/ Kids Click: A web guide and search tool for kids put together by librarians. Fifteen major categories each with several subcategories, this site has a look similar to Yahoo. http://www.kidsclick.org/ ithaki.net - a powerful internet metasearch engine developed for kids (age group targeted, kids above 10) http://www.ithaki.net/kids/ Kids.Net - Search Engine Just for kids & children - Searching safe & clean sites. http://www.kids.net.au/ Kids' Search Tools - Search here for words, information or web sites with this all-inclusive page that includes a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedias, kid safe search engines and more. http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm Quintura Kids - a clustering search engine for Kids http://quinturakids.com/ Super Kids - Super Cool Guide to Finding Stuff on the Web http://www.super-kids.com/