Technology Tuesdays beginning in 2007
T/TAC at VCU Technology Lab, 10 East Franklin Street, Suite 200, Richmond, VA
These intro level mini-workshops are designed to offer participants an opportunity to practice using assistive technology materials, learn new skills and share ideas with others.
January 16, 4-6 pm, Test Me Score Me
Test Me Score Me by SoftTouch, Inc., is an authoring program that allows teachers to create assessments using multiple choice or yes/no format. Students may access the program using a switch, mouse, touch screen and/or Intellikeys keyboard. For those of you with students in the VAAP, this program might be a good way to measure what your students know about various ASOL. We will show you how to create assessments using this software with pictures, videos, speech, or text allowing you to personalize the content of the questions and answers. (K-12)
February 6, 4-6 pm, Slates and Tablets and Auggies, oh my!
Explore universally-designed AT tools that are also fully functioning portable computers, that can be used to work in a Windows XP environment, surf the internet, play a CD or movie, operate by pen/mouse/direct touch/switches or other devices, and run software such as Boardmaker Plus and Speaking Dynamically Pro. (grades 5-12)
March 20, 4-6 pm, AAC for All
Take some time to check out our new augmentative communication devices! Learn to program these simple low to higher tech devices such as the Voice Pod, Tango and Auggie. Develop message pools and learn new ways to engage your AAC users. (PK-12)
April 3, 4-6 pm, Boardmaker Plus
Come create a range of on-screen activities with this tool that combines selected features of Boardmaker and Speaking Dynamically Pro to allow for easy creation of on-screen and printed classroom materials. Boardmaker Plus includes a collection of sample activities, templates and programming tools that really save time! (PK-12)
Additional Content Questions???
Contact Sharon Jones, scjones@vcu.edu, 804-827-1398, Mona Pruett, mdpruett@vcu.edu, 804-827-9990, Kelly Ligon, kligon@vcu.edu, 804-827-9993, or Susanne Croasdaile, sscroasdaile@vcu.edu, 804-828-8179. Fran Smith, fgsmith@vcu.edu. This workshop is sponsored by the Virginia Department of Education Training and Technical Assistance Center at VCU.