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Funding and Grants

Funding Information on grants for health promotion

US Dept. of Education Funding resources Site with links on funding for educators

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 diseaseslaws related to healthinsurance informatio

Leadership

Leah Curtain   Nurse leader's website has good Nursing resources and editorial

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.

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 and Webtools

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

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

Author: Alison Fricke
Last modified: 6/21/2008 5:54 PM (EST)