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Maps are handy for a lot of reasons. Not only do they help us navigate through certain areas, they also enable us to learn more about the world and what it has to offer. What if you’re someone who wants to create a map instead? Sure, there’s Google Map and ... Continue reading » Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
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New premium features including Speech Input for Google Docs, Highlighting and Vocabulary support for web pages, and a new Simplify and Summarize tool for the web are now available. Continue reading for details (and videos!). Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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It's free. And - incidentally - the latest Google voice in ChromeSpeak is brilliant
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Always useful to have an alternative to Skype! I like the option to record and upload to YouTube.
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Some great alternatives to Google searching including a nice visual search engine.
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Find out more about statistics on the general population of disabled people. They are useful to understand market needs, behaviour and trends. Visit us today for more.
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Useful summary of key data by disability
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Great exercise for staff development in elearning.
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Brilliant "on the fly" optical character recognition that can run direct from Chrome Browser as a plug in. Worth switching Language option to English (Tesseract) for best performance
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 WikipediaSimple English Wikipedia . Wikipedias are places where people work together to write encyclopedias in different languages. We use Simple English words and grammar here. The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone! That includes children and adults who are learning English. There are 110,964 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia.
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Great resource and works nicely with #techdis voices (www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/voices)
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Create a map from location list, crowd source, spreadsheets, etc. Publish, share your interactive maps. Highlight radius and other regions. Get map images. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Pamela D Lloyd's curator insight,
February 18, 2014 3:57 PM
This tool will be of interest to teachers, scholars, genealogists, historians, and just about anyone with a need to share information about multiple locations. Best of all, the Basic plan is free and provides access to the functionality most individual users are likely to need. 
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March 26, 2014 9:32 AM
Créer vos propres cartes géographiques avec possibilité d'insérer des vidéos, photos ou fichiers audio. Et encore plus...
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Support and advice for professionals, families and individuals in any aspect of making music.
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A bit of a specialist area but one where expertise is thin on the ground so this resource is very welcome. Note also the staff training opportunity!
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Linda Alexander's insight: Is an individual teacher more effective in terms of students achievement and internal belief systems compared to a small team working collaboratiively?
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I strongly suspect this applies in all sorts of other teams as well..
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For every UK student and classroom: learn how fun coding is in just one hour March 3 - 9.
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Looks fun. Maybe my ancient Basic programming skills will bubble up from the swamp of memory.
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Fascinating insight to a different experience of the world.
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The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to... Via John Dalziel
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Very useful visual summary of creative commons licensing
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Why speed reading for dyslexia?Recently there has been a lot of discussion about the speed reading app Spritz in the media. The idea behind this approach to speed reading is that to save time on eye movement, you only see one word on the screen at a time. With this approach you can very soon achieve much higher reading speeds. You can read more here.
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Well worth having a look at these apps. They may not help all but could be great for some learners.
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These days, when you’re asking your students to do research (on just about any topic), it is likely going to be online research, at least at the start. Most materials are easily available online these days, saving students the time and hassle of heading to the library to schlep home with 100 heavy books in …
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Any fans of OER or accessibility ought to know about these. What better way of widening the reading list with digital content. Not all content will be equally accessible but digital content starts from a better place than hard copy!
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Useful site for supporting disabled learners with briefings, case studies and a Calendar of varied and useful events from a range of organisations.
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This resource was conceived and created by @alistairm of Jisc TechDis to support the Publisher Accessibility Action Group's presentations at the 2014 London Bookfair. Via Anthony Beal
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How do you get all the key accessibility messages you want publishers to have in a mobilephone-friendly way? This worked..
Anthony Beal's curator insight,
April 11, 2014 6:54 AM
A useful interactive guide asking:
Why does it matter? What is accessibility? Where can I find out more? 
Marie Schoeman's curator insight,
April 16, 2014 11:06 PM
A useful guide for publishers on how to go about making publications accessible for people with print disabilities in line with the Marakesh agreement.
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Tim Cook Soundly Rejects Politics of the NCPPR, Suggests Group Sell Apple’s Stock - The Mac Observer
In an emotional response to the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), Apple CEO Tim Cook soundly rejected the politics of the group and suggested it stop investing in Apple if it doesn't like his approach to sustainability and other issues.
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I hope Amazon and Google are looking and listening...
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With a range of academic and practical speakers covering good practice guidance on how we can support disabled learners, followed by the experiences of disabled learners using the education system and their perspectives on effective support and challenges to learning.
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Some great topics - really practical examples - and its free.
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Evernote's an amazingly powerful notebook app. But it can also be rather overwhelming at first. Here's everything you need to get started with Evernote and get your info saved into notes, organized with notebooks and tags. You'll even learn how to clip anything you find online into your notebook, and search like a pro. | Difficulty: Beginner; Length: Medium; Tags: App Training, Productivity, Evernote Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Tracy Hanson's curator insight,
February 15, 2014 1:01 PM
I am certainly going to learn how to use my Evernote more effectively. I don't remember Anything! 
Richard Whiteside's curator insight,
March 28, 2014 6:39 AM
If you've ever thought of getting into using Evernote, but weren't sure where to start, this would be a good place. Teachers can use Evernote to organise all sorts and share with students. It's a great tool, I'd recommend giving it a go.
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A child born in England today can expect to live a longer, healthier life than
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Great example of using health data in a meaningful and personally relevant way. See national and local variations as well as get info on risk reduction. Overall message - move south :-)
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It's not that learning to code is a bad idea, just that the lack of understanding of what coding is (making e-cards? assembling websites from templates?) raises questions as to the value of the programme. Thoughful analysis - worth reading.
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Great looking resources here