iCue

ICue, which stands for Immerse, Connect, Understand and Excel, uses patented technology that includes the iCue CueCard media player, flash card, note-taking tool and trading card. The "flip card" technology allows users to watch streaming videos from NBC News and then "flip" the CueCard over for additional information.

Users can "snag" CueCards and store them in personal resource libraries – or CueCard Stacks – customize them using the "jot" feature to write thoughts and opinions, and exchange comments about content with their iCue friends.

For more information and to take of tour of iCue visit www.icue.com

Making Technology Part of your Back-To-School Planning

Making Technology Part of your Back-to-School Planning

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By Dave L. Edyburn, Ph.D. For many families, the back-to-school season means shopping for school supplies and new clothes. As it gets closer to the first day of school, for a young child it means watching the mailbox for a letter from his new teacher, or for older students it means going to school to register and pick up their schedule. With all the excitement of the annual back-to-school rituals, technology is often overlooked. However, thinking about technology tools and supports can facilitate the back-to-school transition for students with .

learning disabilities. In addition, spending some time learning new technologies before school starts means that more time will be available to focus on using the technology to complete assignments once school begins. This post was taken from the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD). For more information on study tips, and the use of technology visit the NCLD web page at www.ncld.org.

Notecentric

Notecentric

Store and share your classroom notes with this innovative site. It keeps your notes organized so you can reference them later and you can easily access it through a Facebook account.

www.notecentric.com

Awesome Library

The Awesome Library is a website which provides information resources for education. The site organizes the Web with 33,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5% in education. It is a Web site that was developed for K–12 teachers, students, parents, and librarians. Over time its purpose has expanded to include college students and professionals.

Contents Include:

Science

Social Studies

Mathematics

Kids

English

Teachers

Arts

Technology
Check out awesome library at www.awesomelibrary.org

Youth Hood

What is the Youthhood?
youthhood.org

It's a dynamic Web site young adults can use to plan for life after high school. It's unique because it's:

• Curriculum and research based
  
• Interactive and personalized
  
• Directed to young adults
  
• Flexible and useful in any setting
  
• Fun
  
• Free
  

The Youthhood provides a holistic, Web-based curriculum that teachers, community service providers, parents and mentors can use with young adults to develop skills, increase knowledge, and implement a personal life plan that will help young adults achieve their dreams.

Check it out at www.youthhood.org and become part of the Youthhood Community!

Click-N-Type virtual keyboard

http://www.lakefolks.org/cnt/

Click-N-Type is an on-screen virtual keyboard designed for anyone with a disability that prevents him or her from typing on a physical computer keyboard. As long as the person can control a mouse, trackball, touch screen or other pointing device, this software keyboard allows you to send keystrokes to virtually any Windows application or DOS application that can run within a window. The Click-N-Type Virtual Keyboard is a 32 bit application that requires Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista or later. The Click-N-Type Virtual Keyboard was designed with ease of use foremost in mind. Oh yes, it's FREE. If you need it, you can have it.

Iogear Digital Scribe Digital Wireless Pen
IOGEAR's Digital Scribe is the first device ever to capture natural handwriting from any surface, and store it directly onto your computer. Based on a revolutionary digital pen that uses ordinary ink refill and writes on any paper, the Digital Scribe stores handwritten notes, memos or drawings onto your computer screen for easy editing right away or save it for a later time.

IOGEAR's Digital Scribe allows you to express your thoughts in your own handwriting, personalize messages to friends, family, co-workers, convert your handwriting into typed text, and more! The Scribe can also act as a substitute for your mouse making it easy to switch between application you wish to write in. The digital pen can also supplement your keyboard for text input and speed up your work in hundreds of software applications that let you customize and and create shortcut features.

Click on the link below to watch a video clip demonstration of the pen:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1463296780/bclid1460782770/bctid1460773797