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Jennifer Ro and Amy Thomsen presentation on how to implement core vocabulary IDEAS 2014 Conference Forsyth County Schools Assistive Technology Team

SEE ME, FEEL ME, TOUCH ME, HEAR ME: Adapting Books for Divergent Learners PowerPoint Presentation Click on this link for a document containing instructions, considerations, samples, resources, specific units, and sites for assisitve technology support materials The A-Z of Adapting Books for Students with Disabilities in Virginia Click on this link for a document filled with resources specifically for adapting books by Ynez Peterson, OTR/L, AT Specialist Click on this link for ideas on how to fill your room with literacy while meeting the needs of diverse learners by Judy Owens and Gerald Abner SET-BC Accessible Books Video demonstrations on creating and FREE accessible books for downloading from Special Education Technology-British Columbia To download, open, edit and print these files, you must have Boardmaker® software , available at www.mayer-johnson.com .

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"The National Education Technology Plan is the flagship educational technology policy document for the United States. The 2016 Plan, Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education, articulates a vision of equity, active use, and collaborative leadership to make everywhere, all-the-time learning possible. While acknowledging the continuing need to provide greater equity of access to technology itself, the plan goes further to call upon all involved in American education to ensure equity of access to transformational learning experiences enabled by technology. The principles and examples provided in this document align to the Activities to Support the Effective Use of Technology (Title IV A) of Every Student Succeeds Act as authorized by Congress in December 2015."

It's PC only, but is one of the most fully-featured, free apps that I've seen. It uses the SAPI 4 or 5 speech engines, opens HTML, Word, or PDF documents, will convert them all to MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, or WMA files, and has a portable version that will r

This report documents the beliefs, perspectives, and practices of educational administrators which help or hinder effective use of Web 2.0 in K-12 education. The study collected data from nearly 1,200 school administrators on the role of Web 2.0 in Ameri

Free text-to-speech application providing natural sounding voices to hear any written text spoken aloud (Documents, PDF files, webpages, Emails,etc.). Convert any written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV

An online media album capable of holding images, documents and videos allowing group conversations around the medium via phone, text, audio file, or video.

Teaching With Documents Find a treasure trove of reproducible primary sources, lesson plans correlated to national standards, and cross-curricular connections. sign the declaration of independence!

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Includes ideas for teaching American History

A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a web

Do it yourself instructions on making an inexpensive laptop mounted document holder

"Description AT Consideration Guide: IDEA (1997) added the requirement that each IEP team consider the need for assistive technology as part of the Consideration of Special Factors. IEP Teams must also document their consideration of assistive technology in the IEP. The consideration guide can assist school divisions in developing a process for consideration of AT in the IEP process. This app was developed in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE)."