Yahoo Widgets for the Special Needs Classroom

If you are not a Yahoo Widgets fan or user it might be time to consider the many uses of various Yahoo Widgets in the classroom.

For starters there are useful widgets including:

• counters which can be used to tally behaviors or correct answers of your students
  
• various kinds of timers
  
• a few text-to-speech widgets
• Flashcards including pre-made Dolch sight words and math facts as well as "make-your-own"
• beat per minute counters (60 bpm can have a calming effect on students)
• virtual dice, coin flippers and rock/paper/scissors

And that's just the obviously useful stuff, not counting the mooing cows, quaking ducks, virtual Stephen Hawking speaking in his AAC voice, virtual whoopie cushion, various quote generators, comix fetchers, weather widgets and more.