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• 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. Check out additional ideas here in this blog post.
  
• Click N Type Virtual On Screen Keyboard
• Pics4Learning - copyright friendly image library for teachers and students

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 Book Builder - Check out a previous post to learn about this free online tool for creating digital books with embedded prompts.
• 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
• 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!

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.

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
• 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)

Free Text-to-Speech

• WordTalk - a free text-to-speech program for the PC that works within WORD and Outlook and highlights each word that is read. Includes a talking spell checker and a talking thesaurus. Watch this teachertube.com video that I created to learn how to use it. It's best to watch it full screen.
• 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

Writing Tools

• Let Me Type -Free Word Prediction
• Wacky Web Tales
  
• Writing Fix - Interactive Writing Prompts
• Read/write/think - Interactive digital activities (click the student materials link and then click the interactive links - there are many to choose from)
• Bib Me - Free online bibliography tool
• Our Story, Mnemograph - collaborative, online Time Line tools
  
• ToonDoo - Online comic strip creator
• Ghotit - Online context spell checker servic

Quizlet is an online flashcard program that allows one to input matching data and test yourself. After using it to study for my Chemistry midterm I fell in love. The reason? It makes remembering long lists (like the names of chemicals in my case) much more enjoyable than anything else that I have ever tried.

Sure, there are probably better ways to ensure that you learn the data for life than flashcards. However, when you find yourself as a student in the situation where you have to learn a long list that you are really not going to need for life, then flashcards can really help.