18 days of Christmas - audio books and ebooks

For this post we are going to discuss some Christmas audio books to enjoy with your class! Below I have listed some fun audio books or ebooks with a Christmas theme! Enjoy!

• Christmas carol audio book - Charles Dickens audio book from Story home 
• Christmas stories - Christmas stories from story-nory 
• Holidays are here - The holidays are here is a great holiday e book
• Christmas bear - Read this story about a Christmas bear. 

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Switch software and sites

Good Sunday morning! This morning I am going to introduce you very quickly to some super switch software and sites. Some are free and some are software to buy.

• Switch it maker 2
• Choose and tell stories
• Help Kidz Learn
• Let's go series
• Choose it maker 2
• Switch it extras

All abilities playground

All abilities playground

This is a great space for students who use the computer via many different modalities can learn. There are two playgrounds with the same games, one playground is the mouse and keyboard playground the other is the scanning playground. Each playground offers several different virtual online games to play on the interactive whiteboard or computer. Thank you to Patrick Black who shared this site on Diigo!

Closing the gap from a far

     Unfortunately I could not attend Closing the Gap this year. So I decided to aggregate some cool tools from Closing the Gap from by Twitter peeps that attended the conference. First, there were two hashtags that were used for all things closing the gap: #ctg11 and #closingthegap, so if you would like to you can search for those hashtags for more information.

Here is what I found regarding cool sites:

• Weebly - Great online site tool
• QR code site
• Nova chat

Here are some presenters and exhibit hall sites:

•  Crick Soft
• Teach smart
• Ablenet
• My own voice ipad
• Big Keys
• Beyond Adaptive
• Conovercompany
• Vizzle
• Text help
•  Satillo
• TFE
• Widgit Software
• Therapy box
• Smart Ed services
• Mayer Johson

Some people to follow on Twitter Tweeted about Closing the Gap

• @singoffpitch
• @ToledoSigmaChi
• @SpeechTherapist
• @amybraddock
• @Shoostie2010
• @techieteacher