iRead is a group of teachers in Escondido Union School District dedicated to the idea that digital audio can be a powerful learning tool for all students. iRead will give you a chance to create meaningful, curriculum-centered audio projects with your stud
Here you will find all sorts of resources, all of them free to use in your classroom. There are free activities to download. There are ideas and techniques to help you develop new activities and edit those you already have. There are graphics, too, includ
Caroline Musselwhite's updated website on AAC. This site is full of interesting and useful information regarding aided and augmentative communication and includes therapy ideas to develop learning and communication through AAC.
This site is designed to assist teachers, educational professionals, therapists, parents and others seeking information how to improve the lives of students with disabilities. This on-line guide provides ideas, application examples, definitions, news, Y
"eMediaVA is Virginia's premier statewide digital media distribution system
featuring the best "purpose-built" educational content available. Brought to you
by the Virginia Public Media Stations* and PBS, eMediaVA is constantly evolving
to better meet the needs of Virginia's teachers and students. What's even
better, eMediaVA is free for Virginia's teachers and students! Please visit the
About Us
page to get connected.
* Blue Ridge PBS, Roanoke; Community Idea Stations, Richmond; WETA,
Arlington; WHRO, Norfolk; and WVPT, Harrisonburg."
The Virtual Vine is a resource for Early Childhood teachers, preschool through second grade. It's a site filled with ideas and activities to make teaching and learning FUN through themes and units, displays, literacy and math connections. Great ideas and activities for everyone.
Lesson ideas:
Carrot Seed
Can You Dance Dalila?
Each Peach Pear Plum
Edwina the Emu
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Is You Mama A Llama
Lazy Ladybug
Leo the Late Bloomer
Mean Soup
Penelope Jane
Rosie's Walk
Sheila Rae
Show and Tell
Where the Wild Things Are
Step-by-Step communicators can have a whole string of messages recorded onto them. The messages are spoken in the sequence they are recorded by pressing the switch. The device has 75 seconds of recording time.
Universal Design for Learning has also been in the news lately as a new report Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Initiatives on the Move was released by the National Center on UDL, May, 2012. This post describes the principles of Universal Design for Learning and how they naturally occur when a full cycle of learning, including ideas related to the flipped classroom, are used within the instructional process.
"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)."