Alison's Bookmarks
Keeping these links on my wiki has been helpful when I need to remotely access my bookmarks. Many of the links are related to education, health, and technology. I plan to use these sites in my graduate studies in Instructional Technology as well as my daily practice.
Assistive Technology & Special Education
Accessible Technologies for all Students Help in implementing assistive technology
Assistive Technology in Schools Guide to low tech, mid-tech and high tech devices
Assistive Technology Products Microsoft's guide to assistive technology products and issues
Assistive Technology Education Portal A comprehensive guide to assistive technology
Assistive Technology for Children with Autism
AT Basic Modules The AT Basic Modules provide general assistive technology information on a variety of related uses for elementary students with disabilities. They include links to tutorials on the setup and use of several products as well as links to related resources
Center for Applied Special Technology A portal for education research and policy, neuropsychology, clinical/school psychology, technology, engineering, curriculum development, K-12 professional development, and more
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice This agency's goal is to support and promote a national preparedness to foster the development and the adjustment of children with or at risk of developing serious emotional disturbance. Good medication guide.
DBTAC-Northeast ADA Center Regional ADA IT centers provide information, training, and technical assistance to employers, people with disabilities, and other entities with responsibilities under the ADA. The centers act as a "one-stop" central, comprehensive resource on ADA issues in employment, public services, public accommodations, and communications
Descriptive Video DVS Descriptive Video Services provides narrated descriptions of the key visual elements of television or movies
Daisy Digital Accessible Information SYstem,standard for for Digital Talking Books
Family Village School Assistive Technology for Students with Disabilities
NCAM has developed methods for creating and delivering captions for Web-based multimedia
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
New York State Assistive Technology Devices and Services- resources, definitions and policy clarification
NIMAS National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard, a common text standard to remove barriers to accessibility to educational materials.
NIMAC National Instructional Materials Access Center obtaining accessible textbooks for students with disabilities
National Center to Improve Practice Formed to promote the effective use of technology to enhance educational outcomes for students with sensory, cognitive, physical and social/emotional disabilities.
One Hand Typing Source for one hand hand typing information and equipment
Teaching Students with Disabilities Tips for classroom adaptations
Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1998
Education Topics and Tools
ERIC Digital library of education related literature
Education Theories Information on multiple theorists
Learning Domains Links to domains
Learning Concepts summaries of learning concepts
Collaborate! A website devoted to collaborative writing and research in higher education.
Web Quest Web Quest attributes here and also here
Power to Learn Important topics for children on safe internet use at school or at home
Edutopia Home of The George Lucas Educational Foundation, education information inspiration, and communication
New York State Education Department's Virtual Learning System Website to encourage the use of the Internet as a tool for teaching. Has lesson plans divided by subject and linked to state standards.
Interactive Workspaces Project at Stanford A site that explores "designing and experimenting with multi-device, multi-user environments that would enable a rich collaborative environment for users, one that goes beyond the traditional "one user, one computer" environment to allow multiple user interaction."
Assessment ToolsTools for evaluating the uses of technology in education
School 2.0 Depicts a variety of educational and management scenarios that utilize technology
Ethics, Standards, Policies, Regulations and Laws
Assistive Technology Act of 1998 An act to support programs of grants to States to address the assistive technology needs of individuals with disabilities, and for other purposes.
Assistive Technology Legislation more legistation relating to assistive technology and commentary
Electronic Frontier Foundation A leading civil liberties group defending digital freedom in the courts
U.S. Department of Justice Educational Opportunities Section FAQ on Education Law
New York State Education Department NYSED Office of Technology Policy
NYSED Technology statement from legal dept. New York State Education Dept. legal memo regarding use of computers in schools
Funding and Grants
Funding Information on grants for health promotion
Digital Wish.com- Teachers can post a wish for technology, and community can see and take up your cause some companies will donate software, there is a weekly raffle
Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc The Public School's Special Education System as an Assistive Technology Funding Source
Assistive Technology Inc. This company has a great booklet and tips on obtaining funding for assistive technologies
Health
Centers for Disease Control Federal agency devoted to public health. "BAM" (Body and Mind) has games, activities. and downloads on health topics for children. Resources for educators such as lesson plans as well.
Center for Health in Schools Links educators and health professionals to the information essential to building effective school health programs
New York State Dept. of Health Information on diseases, laws related to health, insurance information
Leadership
Leah Curtain Nurse leader's website has good Nursing resources and editorials
Professional Organizations
American Academy of Pediatrics School Health Resources
Consortium for School Networking (COSN) Network for K-12 education leaders who use technology strategically to improve teaching and learning. CoSN provides products and services to support leadership development, advocacy, coalition building, and awareness of emerging technologies.
INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Provides leadership in the use of technology in education
The New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education (NYSACTE) NY affiliate of ISTE
NYSUT Home page of the New York State United Teachers union.
Ed Tech Action Network Political action group with a goal to improving teaching and learning through the systemic use of technology
NEA Professional association and labor union for educators
New York Statewide School Health Service Center School Health Services technical support center. Includes instructional materials, guidelines, memos, laws
References
ERIC The largest digital library of education literature
The Educator's Reference Desk: Resource Guides Guide to multiple resources
SpellCheck.net Free Online Spell Checker
Spell with Flickr Makes words from images
Merriam-Webster A dictionary, thesaurus, medical dictionary and more
Sounds, audio
Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. Read the What is Freesound page to learn more!
ccMixter ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
Freeplay http://www.freeplaymusic.com/ A comprehensive collection of high end broadcast production music spanning all the popular musical genres. This database of music and sound effects is searchable by instrument, mood, tempo, style of music or keyword. Clips of various sizes are available. Free for student and educational use if the terms of the licensing agreement are met.
Standards for Administrators
ISTE Administrator's standards page
Technology in Education Organizations
Emtech Emerging technology for educators and students, numerous links
Draft of NY State of Technology Plantech-plan-2-03
Technology in American Schools: Seven Dimensions for Gauging Progress The Milken Family Foundation supports advances in Education and Medicine
Webtools
The Visual Dictionarycombining dictionary-scale definitions with e illustrations
Audacity A free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
MAGpie 2.0.2 MAGpie is a free application for creating captions and audio descriptions for rich media
Second Life Virtual world
TeacherTube online community for sharing instructional videos
Wired Top 10 School 2.0 sites Links for RWR education
YouTube View video on everything database viewers can upload videos to share
Zamzar Free online file conversions. Changes pictures, video, sounds to file types you chose
dotSub More videos
Ustream Live interactive broadcasting. Users can use a simple web cam or video recorder to broadcast live over the web. Videos are also saved for future viewing
Wikis, RSS feeds, News, Blogs, Communities and Publications
School Health Alert Blog Posted by the editors of schoolnurse.com
Schoolnurse Blog Alison Fricke's blog
NYSED News Feeds New York State Education Dept news
Delicious Social bookmarking community
Flickr Photo sharing community
Suite 101 Education News News and articles on education
Technology and Learning Magazine This site has newsletters, blogs, information on techlearning for teachers, technology coordinators and administrators.
The New York Times Onlines version of the paper of record
The Time is Now (Techlearning blog) Educator blogs Edublog 2007 award for best group blog
Puritan's Guide to Second Life Blog of Dembe Wellman who is an international educator member of ISTE and EDUPODCASTING. She gives tips for using Second Life to teach as well as other resources.
School Nurse Perspectives Thoughts, tools, resources and inspiration for School Nurses by a School Nurse
Health Podcasts Links to Health podcasts
A Plethora of Technology Blog of Barry Bachenheimer on using technology as a teaching tool. Provocative videos on education.
Moving Forward Wiki A free resource "for all who are trying to facilitate technology-related change in schools"
Dangerously Irrelevent Scott McLeod's blog on education, leadership, and technology
Kevin Brady EDIT student NYIT
Gary Stager - Gary Stager comments on issues in Education, a must visit
P. Reilly Ed Tech Journey Assignments for EDIT 603
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