Posted in Art, Content and Curriculum, Digital Story-Telling, Free Resources, Image Manipulation, Media & IT, Online Resources, Photos, Presentation Tool, Productivity, UDL, Video, Web 2.0 on Apr 19th, 2008 4 Comments »
There was terrific news reverberating through the blogosphere yesterday. Ewan McIntosh, Jeff Utecht, and Michelle Eckstein‘ are just three among numerous bloggers who wrote about it. I’d like to add my echo here for the sake of anyone who might miss it elsewhere.
Animoto Education Program It was love at first sight when I [...]
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Posted in Art, Digital Story-Telling, Free Resources, Image Manipulation, Media & IT, Online Resources, Presentation Tool, Productivity, Study Skills, UDL, Web 2.0 on Apr 15th, 2008 5 Comments »
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Loyal subscribers will notice that it’s been a while since my last post. I’m probably more sorry about that than you are. That’s because there is just so much that I’d like to write about! Sometimes, there are neither enough minutes in an hour, nor enough hours [...]
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Childtopia is a website from Spain that offers a collection of online early learning and primary activities that can be accessed in English, French, Spanish, Catalan and Basque. Chiltopia accurately claims to be a “safe place to play and learn”, with countless online activities and printable worksheets. The screenshot below shows the [...]
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Effective text-to-speech options have proliferated in recent years. A couple of days ago, Richard Byrne pointed us to yet another one that is worth knowing about. The developers indicate that their initial purpose was, “to assist students with learning disabilities with their studies, by means of auditory learning and auditory processing.” [...]
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The website I’m highlighting today says it offers “games, songs, communication cards, print resources and information for special needs”. This is great. Better still is the fact that resources designed and intended for learners with special needs are often valuable for learners without special needs designations. This reality is at the heart [...]
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