Technology
Tools for Teachers
Jan.
‘06
Our
website
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/121.html
Copyright
laws
Free
text-to-speech download & other information
http://www.naturalreaders.com/
Free
text-to-speech download & other information
Free
text-to-speech software
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity
is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available
for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Library
of 17,000 free downloadable classics and other works in e-text format. They also
have: Audio
Book, computer-generated Audio
Book, human-read Data
Music,
recorded Music,
Sheet Other
recordings Pictures,
moving Pictures,
still
http://literalsystems.org/abooks/doku.php
LiteralSystems
audiobooks are always free of charge to enjoy and share with your friends
non-commercially. These are mp3 file recordings of human-voiced readings and
performances of classic literary works–download to your itunes, ipod or
windows media player and listen. There is no registration or email disclosure
required.
LibriVox
volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then release the
audio files back onto the net (podcast and catalog). Their objective is to make
all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the
internet. They are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain
project.
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/
Free
MP3, iPOD and DVD audiobooks (adventures, detectives, horrors, classics,
children, non-fictions, philosophy, etc.)to download and enjoy. Every audio
book produced and recorded by professional actors/narrators and experienced
directors. Note:
Registration is required and free downloads are “bearable quality”.
To get better quality involves a fee of $3 to $7, depending on the
quality wanted!
Free
online literature with more than 2000 classic texts, book notes, author
biographies, book summaries, and reference books.
Study guides to the most read books and Help for Teachers.
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
The
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain
Features
over 400 free literature summaries/notes/book notes/chapter
http://www.state.ok.us/~library/
Toll
Free 1-800-453-4293
Recording
for the Blind & Dyslexic serves all people with print disabilities or those
who can't effectively read standard print because of a disability. Individual
& institutional membership fees.
http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/reference/tech/textspeech.html
Very
good resource site for TTS and other assistive tech
http://digitalequity.edreform.net/home/
The
Digital Equity Portal presents a collection of educational resources addressing
inequitable access to technology tools, computers and the Internet. Each
resource has been screened by experts in digital equity and professionally
catalogued to help you find high quality material that addresses your specific
needs.
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/technology/techguide.html
Listing
of hardware and software products for people with learning disabilities
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/technology/technology.html
Technology
information and resources.
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/technology/product_list/reading.html#anchor1754987
Reading
resources for people with learning disabilities
Dragon
NaturallySpeaking Standard 8
Create
Notes and E-mail Simply by Speaking! With Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Standard
edition you can talk to your computer and watch your words instantly appear in
letters, e-mail, instant messages and chat rooms. You can even surf the Web by
speaking! A noise-canceling microphone is included. $99.99
Websites
for Teachers, Parents & Students
http://www.sde.state.ok.us/home/defaultie.html
On
the menu on the left, click PASS button. Scroll
down to PASSport and click to open.
Click on “become a registered user”. Fill
out the required information and click the “register” button. Once you’ve
created your account, log in. Click
the PASSport button.
Choose a content area in the drop down menu.
Then choose a grade level and more specific content area; click “go”.
At
this point, you will find the PASS objectives that reflect the criteria you have
selected. Many (not all) of the standards have lesson plans, assessment tools,
teacher resources, and student activities associated with them. Simply clicking
on a standard will take you to an appropriate resource link.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/tchrtoolbag/
Developed
for teachers by teachers. As educators ourselves, we have chosen these sites,
lessons, and resources from the World Wide Web, and put them together into one
site to save teachers from the hassle of searching and surfing the net.
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx
(K-12)
Provides standards-based lesson plans, student activities and reviewed
Web sites. Their partner sites
include: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
(arts integration); http://www.econedlink.org/
(economics); http://edsitement.neh.gov/
(the humanities); http://illuminations.nctm.org/
(mathematics); http://www.readwritethink.org/
(reading & language arts); http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/
(science); and http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
(geography).
http://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher/
Teacher-to-Teacher
Initiative: eLearning
Get
professional development
for teaching algebra, reading in content areas, differentiated instruction,
turning data into information, and more. You may be able to earn professional
development credit for Teacher-to-Teacher workshops and eLearning through your
district or state.
http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html
Free
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence:
History, arts, reading, science, and math
teaching resources from 35 federal agencies.
The
Gateway to Educational contains detailed descriptions of over 40,000 educational
resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and
commercial Internet sites.
Under
"Recipes4Success" & "Classroom Resources" you'll find
activities and tutorials on everything from gathering web resources to
project-based collaborative resources.
It is
a hobby of the author of this page to collect virtual field trips.
There are many other goodies as well.
http://www.teachwithmovies.org/index.html
Learning
Guides to each recommended film describe the benefits of the movie, possible
problems, and helpful background. Discussion questions, bridges to reading,
projects and links to the internet are also provided.
$11.99
per year for unlimited personal or classroom use of more than 260 Learning
Guides
An
excellent site for lesson plans, videos, how-tos, a web-based curriculum
developed by the
http://www.help4teachers.com/samples.htm
Many
free examples of layered units on the website that provide ideas on how to
differentiate learning from Kathie Nunley’s “Layered Curriculum.
Click
on “Curriculum Units” and then on “Sample Units”.
Read the terms for viewing
and/or printing curriculum units and then click “yes”.
Here you’ll find curriculum units (designed by teachers who attended
the training) using an integrated, interdisciplinary, thematic approach.
Scroll down until you find the grade levels and subject of interest.
Click on the picture to open the unit.
http://www.servicelearning.org/resources/quick_guides/curriculum/
Curriculum
development for K-12 Service Learning.
http://help.tucows.com/glossary.html
TUCOWS
Internet Dictionary. Internet
terminology.
An
encyclopedia site that also has dictionaries, thesaurus, almanacs &
additional encyclopedias
A
Dictionary site
http://www.infoplease.com/index.h
An
Almanac site
The
Internet Public Library
http://www.quia.com/de/okmain.html
Driving
Quiz & Street Sign game.