Are you coming to today's Tech Tuesday session on "Advanced Digital Video Projects"? If so, the link to the wiki for today is http://udl4literacy.pbwiki.com/Digital+Video+Projects. If not, poke around on the site, read some of the ideas generated from the last session, and try out our step-by-step instructions for creating movies for alternate/alternative assessment or just for fun learning with your students!
Checkout the Visual Search Mode of the VCU T/TAC online library. Icons are used as search buttons for categories or subject areas. Selecting the Assistive Technology search button opens up several other search buttons for easy “one-touch” searching for AT items, software or helpful links. If you would like to checkout AT Library items call us at 800-426-1595 and ask for our library, or come by the VCU T/TAC at 10 E. Franklin St in Richmond.
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Here's a great 66-minute conversation you'll find in mp3 format at http://www.edtechtalk.com/node/1762, otherwise known as "Women of Web 2.0 Show #32 Assistive Technology":
Join us as we converse with Karen Janowski, BrianFriedlander, Tammy Dupre, Joy Zabala and Deb Barrows, with the Women of Web, Jen Wagner, Sharon Peters and Cheryl Oakes.Questions:
How is it that we identify assistive technology vs. good educational
practice?What is the most signficant technology change that has impacted you and
your students in the past 3 years?What happens when you have one child in a class that has to have a
laptop with spell check for writing papers and the others do not have
it? How do you answer the questions? How do you handle it?What should happen to Standardized Testing in light of assistive
technology? Should children who have a prescription be allowed to use a
computer or is it an "unfair advantage" as some say?Talk about learning disabilities and gifted children -- what happens
when a gifted child has a learning disability? Are teachers willing to
accommodate? How does a parent advocate such accommodation?
Closing The Gap 2007: Set the stage for success! by Madalaine Pugliese
This article, published in the Feb/Mar 2007 issue of Closing The Gap, describes how 8 Stages users in various settings--private practice, local school, district collaborative, residential school, regional center, and statewide agency--implement the Stages framework for assistive technology assessment, alternate assessment, and access to curriculum. Read how Stages gives professionals "Wow" moments, when they discover how much more their students knew and understood than anyone thought.
Click on this link to open and read the article: http://www.assistivetech.com/p-stages-articles.htm
Click on http://easi.cc/archive/gregg/simon/simon.htm for an audio and visual archive of a webconference held November 27 on Standardized Testing and Students with Disabilities: The Stakes are High and So is the Anxiety!
The conference was sponsored by EASI - Equal Access to Software & Information, whose homepage is
http://easi.cc/