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Web 2.0 Tools for Educators
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Web 2.0 Tools for Educators Links:
Here's a great link you'll find on Pinterest!
And another one on Web 2.0 Teaching Tools!
And another...Free Technology for Teachers!
And another....Cool Tools for School!

Web 2.0 Technology For Educators Overview Video
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Here's a link to the Google Play store where you'll find hundreds and hundreds of apps for a wide variety of educational use.  Listed below are just a sampling of the kind of apps you will find available.


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Autism Speaks is an organization primarily focused on changing the future for all who struggle with autism spectrum disorders.
  • Great dedication to funding global biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and cure for autism. 
  • Raising public awareness about autism and its effects on individuals, families, and society.
  • Bringing hope to all who deal with the hardships of this disorder through blogs, news articles and family services.

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Drag 'N' Drop Math is an amazing Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, or Division application designed to help kids who struggle organizing and lining up numbers. 
  • This app can be customized and users can choose the number of mathematical operations.
  •  Users can draw straight lines on the screen simply by touching and dragging and can choose (for division) whether or not the problems should have remainders. 
  • The program gives immediate feedback and allows users the opportunity to correct answers that are incorrect. Mini numbers are provided for regrouping.
  • This app cost $2.50.

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Kids Reading Sight Words LITE is the next step after our Kids Reading (Preschool) game.  Join Tammy the frog on a journey through four exciting activities (this Lite version contains only two activities) as she hops from one screen to the next to learn and review commonly used English words from the list of 220 Dolch sight words. There are five levels of vocabulary for the child to learn and review.
  • Listen to common words and identify the correct sight word.
  • Learn to recognize common words at their reading level.
  • Improve reading skills by practicing words that they may have seen or are seem familiar.
  • Improve reading fluency.


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Speech To Text Notepad creates notes hands free!  All you have to do is speak - this app converts it into text that can be edited using voice commands. 
  • This app is great for creating to-do lists, grocery list, dictation, and other notes in general. You can also share your notes using your favorite app (Gmail, twitter, Google Hangout, SMS, etc).
  • This app requires Android's speech recognition system (Google Search app). Currently voice commands are supported in English, Russian, Spanish, French, German and Portugese. 
  • This app can still be used for regular speech to text (without voice commands for next line, delete, etc) in almost all languages supported by Android.
  • This app is free!

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