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Book titles by writing trait: voice, ideas, organization,word choice, sentency fluency, conventions, presentation.

Reading with a simple interface - CLiCk, Speak is designed to be as easy to use for sighted users as possible. The interface is completely mouse driven; there's no need to remember any key combinations. Reading through a page is as simple as placing the cursor and hitting the GO button; reading a selection is as easy as highlighting the text and hitting the SPEAK button.

NWREL has compiled this vast array of lesson plans that any teacher for any grade level will find useful. Organized around the 6 +traits of writing (similar to the Dimensions of Writing). Search by trait and and grade level.

Sylvia Web BrainStormer allows you to set up and run on-line brainstorming sessions with your colleagues, customers, friends or anyone anywhere who has an internet connection. Web Brainstorming is easy. Just set up your creative challenge, set your evaluation criteria, invite people and start brainstorming. When you are finished, you can vote on the best ideas. Requires registration to participate. All brainstorms are public.

subject specific web resources for teaching to the gifted student

Links to a few websites with lesson plans targeted toward higher level students.

This section is a resource for assistive technology specialists and others who use technology to promote learning and the inclusion of students with disabilities in the school setting. Here you will find a collection of technical tips, step by step directions and fact sheets on a wide variety of software programs and adaptive hardware.

Online PowerPoint Presentation on using Wikis in the classroom. An excellent guide.

StarOffice 4 Kids has been uniquely designed for easy customization by individual teachers to support specific learning objectives. It is aligned to the needs of a teacher and his or her specific teaching materials and not vice versa. StarOffice 4 Kids allows the teacher to handle an interactive learning process according to learning steps that he or she considers appropriate. Not only according to the age-specific steps of the class, but also in regard to the individual learning progress of the class or a selected group of students. Adjusted to the learning speed of the students a teacher could, for example, easily focus on the fundamentals of word processing. The teacher could start with work sheets with just the functions for using of texts in different fonts and font sizes. Once the students have learnt how to use those functions, the teacher could add new functions to the function toolbar and teach those in a next step. StarOffice 4 Kids makes it easy for the teacher to produce documents for the exercises in class. A teacher can easily transform usual office documents into task sheets for the class and store them into the subject specific folders. The students will find them in the workspace of their class. They will work on them and save them in their own workspace. This workspace only contains the personal files and that is protected from the access of other students. StarOffice 4 Kids documents and user interfaces are based on an XML data format, augmenting the open source StarOffice/OpenOffice format. That way StarOffice 4 Kids guarantees smooth integration and immediate use of external teaching material as provided by publishers in education. Teachers could directly take on the teaching material they need and use it in class.

An example of a well-organized wiki developed around AP WH review topics. Note how you can review the revision history and compare to previous versions. Click the history tab to try it

A Lesson plan aimed at enabling students to write a class blog policy which emphasizes safety.

What is Project Cam? Developed by Cable in the Classroom, Project Cam is an online environment with video, chat and file sharing capabilities. It allows educators, students, and experts to make live connections to other learners and experts via webcams and high-speed internet. Features it's free to use for educational purposes.Login to a unique, private page, share live video and audio feeds between two participating locations, communicate with the live text-based chat capability, store and share all kinds of files

Watch a screencast that shows how Wridea works. Wridea is a place to store your ideas. You can create multiple pages and categories that are color coded. There is even a way for you and your friends to brainstorm together. It can be used as a project management tool and, of course, it’s free. wridea.com.review.wmv Flash Version

There are many resources on the web addressing the issues of guidelines and responsibilities while blogging in education. According to Anne Davis, one of the very best is the AHS Blogging Policy developed for the use of weblogs at Arapahoe High School.

Gabcast.com is a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content. Most people will use a touch-tone telephone to make their recordings but we also provide worldwide access to the service through VoIP. Once you have made a recording and have published it, a newsfeed is immediately and automatically updated to alert subscribers to your channel.

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What a great collection to inspire students with high interest material. This collection contains biographical info in 5 NFL football players using photos and maps from Windows Live Virtual Earth.....Lots of raw material for writing activties.

The Net Generation has grown up with information technology. The aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students reflect the environment in which they were raised—one that is decidedly different from that which existed when faculty and administrators were growing up. This collection explores the Net Gen and the implications for institutions in areas such as teaching, service, learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum. Contributions by educators and students are included.

Scan, copy and fax with your camera phone or digital camera... What are the applications for classroom use?