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New Social Networking Sites - Educational Twist - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 10 Feb 12
     
    Learning Today
J B

The #spedchat Project - 0 views

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  • J B on 03 Apr 11
     
    #spedchat is a twitter hashtag used for:(1) daily, continuous research and resource sharing on issues related to and effecting students with disabilities, &(2) a scheduled weekly twitter chat on Tuesday nights from 8:30-9:30 EST.
J B

Teaching All Students - 0 views

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  • J B on 03 Apr 11
     
    Patrick Black's blog
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SpeEdChange: A 'Universal' VoiceThread? Not quite. And, Google and Prezi - 0 views

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  • VoiceThread has failed to work with any kind of screen reader, leaving those with sight issues, and reading issues, disconnected... from totally to partially
  • VoiceThread Universal lets full-scale screen readers, software like JAWS and ORCA, read the text comments left on a VoiceThread and allow navigation. The navigation allows you to add comments as well, and that's great. But as the developers point out, the current system won't help you with, "creating and adding content to VoiceThreads," won't allow searches, doesn't allow phone integration, though they say all these things are being "worked on."
  • A bigger issue for me is that neither VoiceThread nor VoiceThread Universal works with the kind of "light" screen readers used by those with dyslexia.
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  • So, is it OK for us to use these tools in schools? I am conflicted. I tend to think "yes" assuming that we always - automatically - provide alternative access capability which is, essentially, equal. After all, we still use those inaccessible books in our rooms, we still let teachers write, in handwriting no less, on the "board." But I'm bothered by it because use may tend to remove the pressure on these organizations to move toward accessibility. These companies want access to our students, should we offer that if they don't really want access to all of our kids?
J B

Apportunities with iPads | The Technology is Brilliant While the Teaching is Magic - 0 views

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  • J B on 27 Apr 11
     
    Apportunities with iPads is a forum originally designed for 20 teachers and parents in the state of Minnesota who are involved in an iPad Project with children who have deaf-blindness. The intent of this forum is to establish a tool that will allow teachers and parents within this project to connect and share experiences about the use of the iPad as an instructional tool with this population of learners. The broader intent of this forum is to weave together the ever-changing face of app use within the field of special education and students with severe and multiple disabilities.
J B

EdTech Solutions - Teaching Every Student - 0 views

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    Karen Janowski
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Engineering Universal Access for Learning - 0 views

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UDL accessibility research

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  • “Universal design usually means creating buildings that are physically accessible to everyone, with hallways wide enough for wheelchairs,” he says. “But, in promoting ‘universal design for learning,’ we have to simultaneously confront the technological, social and psychological barriers to equal education.”
  • “Rather than see one person as being blind and another as having dyslexia, we’ve found that it’s most useful to think of both of them as having difficulty processing visual information.
  • some of the most critical issues in educational access remain social rather than technological. As he says, “there is still a stigma that makes some students unwilling to disclose their learning disability.”
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  • Bowie State is collaborating with researchers at the University of Illinois to combine image processing, facial recognition and natural speech to interpret and describe graphic images.
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