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"STEAM : How to make moving noodle robots"

Great video showing the power of "driving" an adapted toy car for mobility. The GoBabyGo project modifies off-the-shelf toy racecars to provide mobility and independence to kids who have difficulty moving on their own. Some tips on adapting a toy car are provided!

"Move To Learn Fitness Break!"

fun games for learning mouse skills. also practices other skills

fun games for learning mouse skills. also practices other skills

Help students working on basic mouse skills, eyehand coordination and/or timing. Minimouse.us is a simple game that teaches how to move the mouse and click. Additionally, it helps students think spatially as they predict their character's trajectory when he jumps.

"Imagine being unable to say, "I am hungry," "I am in pain," "thank you," or "I love you," - losing your ability to communicate, being trapped inside your body, surrounded by people yet utterly alone. For 13 long years, that was Martin Pistorius's reality. After contracting a brain infection at the age of twelve, Pistorius lost his ability to control his movements and to speak, and eventually he failed every test for mental awareness. He had become a ghost. But then a strange thing started to happen - his mind began to knit itself back together. In this moving talk, Pistorius tells how he freed himself from a life locked inside his own body."

How to adapt a motorized car for students with impairments that impact the ability to physical operation.

The University of Delaware's GoBabyGo project modifies off-the-shelf toy cars to provide mobility and independence to children who have difficulty moving on their own.

Brain computer interface, or BCI, could day help restore movement to paralyzed people and enable amputees to move bionic limbs.

The following links will take you to some examples of digital storytelling in action. They begin with the use of simple voice recording and move through some of the more popular software applications to the use of online applications. A number of the page

You can use WordArt to make display text (e.g., the heading of your document) more eye-catching. WordArt can be resized, moved, and edited to fit your needs. Documentation is also available for Using Word Art in Excel and PowerPoint.

Blog post about AAC implementation with practical strategies.

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.

This is a reading activity made out of paint chips. Genius! Put the ending sound on the card with the cut-out and then the different starting sounds down the strip. Move the card down the strip and sound out the different words.

Use drag n drop to move words around to make sentences

Under the Table tells the story of how our assumptions influence not only how we act, but how we treat others. This story is one of understanding and realization that all students are are capable and contributors in their communities. We know that diversity is a strength, but if we are to truly move inclusive education forward in our schools, we need to understand the essential component of presuming competence.

This 5-part series of YouTube videos will walk Scratchers through the steps to create a simple animation where sprites speak and move from scene to scene.

This past weekend, our department chair received an email from a local high school English teacher who asked, in short, should they be teaching students how to do a "traditional" research paper - including the use of 3×5 note cards - because some of his colleagues are strong supporters of it and others consider it "archaic." He wanted to hear a response from a college professor about how best to prepare students for the kinds of research that they would be doing in composition courses that they would be taking after high school. Below, I have copied and pasted the response that I offered him via email. And, now I ask you… What do you think - is it time to move away from "traditional" research paper writing processes?

Move ahead in your career with tutorials on resumes, the job search, interviewing, and much more.

Practice letter recognition and spelling skills by writing on an egg. Use the on-screen keyboard to select letters to place in the egg. Then, click and drag the letters to move them around to form words.