Advancing Independent Achievement through Technology... 
When you add too many apps that can open the same file type, such as PDFs, you may find your favorite has disappeared. The app you've been using for months is suddenly and strangely missing from the Open In... 
Do you use images of Australian notes and coins in your maths activities or communication aids? Do you know what the guidelines are for using these or whether you...
Here at Spectronics, we have been contributing to our Activity Exchange for years. If you have never paid a visit – do so, it may just have some great... 
The story of using Evernote as a portfolio in my k-12 school (RT @LEARNNC: This blog is a GREAT resource if you are interested in using Evernote as portfolios with your students.) ... Via Javier Magdaleno 
Our project is formally called the "Accessible Resources Pilot Project". It was funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF, now DfE). The Dolphin Inclusive Consortium won the tender for the project. The project ran throughout the 2009/2010 school year, and a final report of findings and recommendations was be submitted to the DfE in January 2011. The project was testing a model for the provision of textbooks and other curriculum materials in electronic files for pupils who struggle to read books in their standard format due to problems with sight or reading e.g. Dyslexia. 
As the Spectronics consultancy team travel around Australia and New Zealand, they are often asked about how to create customised books and bookshelves on the iPad. Books which students... 
Intellipad is a relatively new writing app available for the iPad. Developed by an Occupational Therapist who wanted a custom keyboard for her client – the App has... 
As a veteran English teacher in the Euclid City Schools, and someone who sees great value in integrating technology, I wanted to contribute to the ongoing dialog regarding tablet computing, specifically, the iPad, and its impact on student literacy and students’ self perception of their own literacy. You can find an article detailing my teacher research as well as a short video I produced for this project and to share at the ISTE 2011 conference where I am presented this research. Via Sam Gliksman 
From inov8 Educational Consulting
Welcome to Part 5 of There's A Special App For That series on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps for students with special needs. In this post we round up 5 great mind mapping apps for children with learning disabilities who are visual learners.
Our criteria for mind mapping apps: Apps for mind mapping are generally developed for a mass market and not specifically for educational use or for students with special needs. With so many apps on the market, we developed some basic criteria that we used to target the needs of a student with learning disabilities:
Via Kathleen McClaskey |
A sustainable model for using mobile devices to assist with analysing learners' literacy and numeracy skills will be developed in a pilot program. The project will develop, trial and evaluate an e-learning mobile solution to test literacy and numeracy capabilities of disadvantaged young people in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. When poor literacy and numeracy skills are combined with youth experiencing intellectual disabilities or mental health issues, or where they come from dysfunctional families, the chance of them remaining in formal education is greatly diminished. ... Via NDCO Tas 
We are happy to feature innovative new assistive technologies in this blog. Today, we want to tell you about a Web App from Texthelp, eBook Reader, that reads Bookshare books in the Cloud. eBook Re... 
The onscreen keyboard on the iPhone 4S and iPad (3rd Generation) has a new feature, Voice Dictation. This will provide speech recognition capabilities integrated right there via the keyboard. 
Technology will only advance learning if it is used to support literacy and inquiry, William Oehlkers and Cindy DiDonato write. 
Despite the growing use of multimedia in classrooms, schools remain primarily text oriented. This is a major problem for significant numbers of learners who struggle with text. No matter how capable they may be in other respects, these students are not “academically” oriented in the ways that tend to matter most in the classroom. Via Nik Peachey 
Evernote is a great tool to add to the suite of supports for students struggling with keeping their thoughts and study/research materials "organised". This blog post suggests a few additional applications and sources of more ideas for use in the classroom. 
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Via Links2LearningOnline 
Here's an overview of the different types of microphones you can use with speech recognition software, how they work, and what might be the best mic for the way you work. 
Just add a laptop or an iPad 2! No data projector needed. No shadows. Fully height-adjustable. Even project wirelessly from your iPad 2 (using an Apple TV unit and... 
"We are big fans of the latest innovations for organization and productivity to assist with the guidelines in our “11 tips for improving organizational skills“, as well as to encourage independence. These apps go beyond general recommendations and give students support in many different areas of organization. Here are a few of our low-cost (or free!) app recommendations for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad in the area of organization." Via Kathleen McClaskey 
Apps for Middle and High School Students My position as an OT and an AT coordinator requires me to work with teachers and students from 4K to high school. Although most of the iDevices we currently have are dedicated to younger special needs students or students in multi-categorical classrooms, we will be getting iPads for some of our LD teachers at different grade levels to use. Thus the search begins for appropriate apps for teachers and students at the middle and high school levels. Here are just a few apps that I consider useful for middle and high school LD students as well as a few other resource lists of apps suited to these grade levels ... 
A new day has arrived for dyslexic and LD students where apps have been created to support the challenges that they have on a daily basis in school. Here is the "Top Ten apps" (with links to iTunes) for them to get started. Via Kathleen McClaskey 
Check out this article.(Study finds no link between dyslexia and IQ http://t.co/Z2Gc9MLB...)... |
