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How To Safely Clean Your Tablet Or Smartphone's Touchscreen

How To Safely Clean Your Tablet Or Smartphone's Touchscreen | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
Cleaning a touchscreen is simple. You don’t need a special cleaning kit or cleaning solution to safely clean your tablet or smartphone’s touchscreen – you can do it with materials you probably have on hand.
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Technical Brief: Students With Disabilities and Online Learning | [Universal Design for Instruction in Postsecondary Education]

Technical Brief: Students With Disabilities and Online Learning | [Universal Design for Instruction in Postsecondary Education] | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it

Students with disabilities require unique support in the online learning environment. Many higher education instructors assume that all materials available online are accessible to all students (Cook, 2002).

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Silk - Publish your collections of information

Silk - Publish your collections of information | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
Silk is a new way to create and consume content. Structuring and visualizing your content is now as easy as writing it!
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via Richard Byrne-Silk could be a good tool for students to use to create digital portfolios. Teachers could use Silk to create digital collections of information to supplement or replace textbooks for their courses.

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34 Assistive Technology Apps From edshelf

34 Assistive Technology Apps From edshelf | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
A collection of assistive technology & software that can be used for students with disabilities, such as Dragon Dictation, iTalk, Moody Me, Quizlet, etc.
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A nice review of applications that help foster UDL in the classroom.

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How To Use Vine In The Classroom - Edudemic

How To Use Vine In The Classroom - Edudemic | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
Students can quickly create their very own six-second videos for free. Here's a quick look at using Vine in the classroom for active learning.
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GoClass - Redefining classroom learning. Empowering instructors.

GoClass - Redefining classroom learning. Empowering instructors. | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
GoClass is a unique app for teaching and learning interactively within the classroom using iPads. It allows teachers to create lessons, create formative assessments, and garner student response.
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A List of Great Websites for your Kids ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

A List of Great Websites for your Kids ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
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The 5 Best Presentation Apps for the iPad

The 5 Best Presentation Apps for the iPad | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
Teachers often turn to presentation software to help deliver the content they choose to meet their lesson objectives, but what is the best way to do this on an iPad? Well, there is no PowerPoint fo...
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YouTube Capture app adds iPad and mini support

YouTube Capture app adds iPad and mini support | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
Following the release of YouTube Capture for iPhone late last year, Google has finally added iPad (and iPad mini) support to the app -- taking full
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YouTube Capture lets you easily record, edit (with color correction, auto stabilization, trimming and music), upload to YouTube and share your life with the world through Google+, Facebook and Twitter.

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UDL Studio :: Home Page

UDL Studio :: Home Page | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
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Create dynamic, UDL supported learning environments!

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iPad Apps--by Task--Wow

iPad Apps--by Task--Wow | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
The folks over at EdTechTeacher posted a list of iPad apps by task that I think is exemplary. Here's their list: iPad Learning Objectives I want my students to record and edit video on their iPad. ...
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WebTools4u2use - Finding the Right Tool

WebTools4u2use - Finding the Right Tool | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
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iCivics | Free Lesson Plans and Games for Learning Civics

iCivics | Free Lesson Plans and Games for Learning Civics | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
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Innovation Excellence | 15 Education Technologies To Check Out in 2013

Innovation Excellence | 15 Education Technologies To Check Out in 2013 | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
What latest gadgets and gizmos are going to change your classroom in 2013? It’s hard to know exactly what will catch on and what won’t, but the following list showcases some of the emerging new technologies, software, and platforms available.
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1:25 iPad Classroom - A Creative Model

1:25 iPad Classroom - A Creative Model | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
There are so many truly lucky classes out there in the world of education where every child walks in with a device of their own. It may be that the school is BYOD, runs a 1:1 iPad or laptop program...
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20 BYOD Resources For The 21st Century Schools

20 BYOD Resources For The 21st Century Schools | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
20 BYOD Resources For The 21st Century Schools
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700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
Download 700 free courses from Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley and other great universities to your computer or mobile device.
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How can you use these to enhance your teaching?

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Tech-Based Approach to Bloom's Taxonomy

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Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history

Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
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A great resource to, for example, ask your students to study potential works of art for a museum exhibit about the changing portrayal of human bodies throughout history.

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Exoskeleton allows paraplegics to walk

Exoskeleton allows paraplegics to walk | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
The idea of "wearable robots" may seem like something out of a movie, but this technology is already being used in real life.
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Started as a project for the military, the exoskeleton has transformed from a device designed to allow soldiers to lift heavy loads and walk further to one that enables people with disabilities to step out of wheelchairs and stand upright.

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Ask3 - An iPad App for Creating Flipped Video Lessons Your Students Can Actually Respond To

Ask3 - An iPad App for Creating Flipped Video Lessons Your Students Can Actually Respond To | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
Ask3 is a free iPad app from TechSmith. TechSmith is probably best known as being the company that produces Jing and Camtasia screen capture software. Ask3 is a tool that teachers can use to create...
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Ask3 could be a great app to use to develop and share short tutorials with your students. The option for students to insert comments and questions might make Ask3 your new favorite whiteboard app.

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Mind-controlled exoskeleton to help persons with disabilities walk again | Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments

Mind-controlled exoskeleton to help persons with disabilities walk again | Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
Every year thousands of people in Europe are paralysed by a spinal cord injury. Many are young adults, facing the rest of their lives confined to a whee...
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The system, based on innovative ‘Brain-neural-computer interface’ (BNCI) technology – combined with a light-weight exoskeleton attached to users’ legs and a virtual reality environment for training – could also find applications in there habilitation of stroke victims and in assisting astronauts rebuild muscle mass after prolonged periods in space.

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iPads as Assistive Technology: 30+ AAC Apps to Help Children | iPad Academy

iPads as Assistive Technology: 30+ AAC Apps to Help Children | iPad Academy | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
List of AAC iPad apps useful for children with speech and communication disorders. Many have versions for the iPhone and iPod touch. Assistive technology for the iPad.
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Rhode Island Students Gaining 'Badges,' Credits Outside School | Nora Fleming | HASTAC

Rhode Island Students Gaining 'Badges,' Credits Outside School | Nora Fleming | HASTAC | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
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Apple TV In The Classroom: 4 Reasons To Try It Out - Edudemic

Apple TV In The Classroom: 4 Reasons To Try It Out - Edudemic | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
Consider an Apple TV in the classroom or looking for ways to effectively display your iPad or iPhone on a projector screen wirelessly? Check this out.
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Wirelessly connect you apple device to a IWB or project. In special education this resource can accomodate and facilitate the learning needs of students who are physically and visually impaired.

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48 Free Education Apps Sorted By Grade Level - Edudemic

48 Free Education Apps Sorted By Grade Level - Edudemic | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
Time to stop spending all afternoon hunting through the app store. These free education apps sorted by grade level should save you quite a few hours.
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20 Apps (Games) for Play-Based Learning

20 Apps (Games) for Play-Based Learning | Special Educator Technology | Scoop.it
Even though older adults might still carry a negative association with video game consoles and devices, today’s technology is vastly different than it was 20 years ago.
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