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E-mail from Maria K -- 12/12/11

Woohoo - I found it! PaperBuddy is now PaperHELPER. $1.99, but well worth it. There's also a companion app that seems interesting.... [|RumbleApps] [|Category: Education] [|Updated: Apr 11, 2011]
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Please post in if any of you give it a try ||

[|RumbleApps] [|Category: Education] [|Updated: Nov 19, 2011]
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|| So, just to review, and of course this is only for one specific kiddo, the notetaking workflow my daughter is currently using (8th grade, reg ed & resource) includes the following apps: "Typ-O HD" - word prediction, spelling assistance, and auditory feedback, for speed and accuracy when taking lecture notes, or drafting essay type answers on tests study guides. "In Class" - multimedia note taking with integrated tasks and contacts, automatic filing by class schedule, multiple ways of sharing. Great for capturing shorter notes, sketches, web clips and audio. (+ photos and videos if she gets the iPad 2 at some point) "PaperHelper" (formerly PaperBuddy :) - for web-based research and note taking. I wasn't thrilled with WritePad or other similar apps, so I'd pretty much given up on a Handwriting recognition app that coul read her writing, but we did find an app for her called "Bamboo Paper" that is smooth and easy to use for basic handwritten notes. However, we just tried the free version of "MyScript Memo" and Im impressed - seems promising for another trial of handwriting recognition. Choice of paper & ink, palm guard, integrated personal dictionary. Here are the features & a quick tutorial: [|http://myscriptsupport.visionobjects.com/online-info/MyScriptMemo/iPad/user_guide_ipad_en_US.html#pics]

Last, but not least, I ran across this new notetaking AND outliner app today 75% off intro sale makes it only $.99. I may give this one a try for myself :) [|MagicalPad] [|Category: Productivity]  [|Updated: Dec 06, 2011]
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|| (also... **My Webnote is now $0.99, down from 2.99)**

Maria

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[|http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/feel-electric!/id463493101?mt=8]
 * Feel Electric** - Sesame Street: explore emotions, upload your own pics

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 * Bloom*** - use this app to add inspirational music from your itunes library to pics, may set slideshow to start at a specific time

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 * Typ-O** uses a powerful word prediction engine and a sophisticated spelling error model to help you write

**Notability** - handwriting, note taking, audio recording, annotate PDFs, cloud sync your notes to Dropbox, and more. By Ginger Labs []

Find tips and tricks on YouTube page: [|Youtube.com/inclassapp]
 * inClass** by OneZeroWare - organize coursework, take notes, give reminders/alarms. []

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 * The Kid Should See This**( web | Twitter ) is a collection of sites, videos, and other online content that is appropriate for kids (created by a mom and her 3 year old). Here is an example

The following is a link that Investigations has created to link games that correlate to math teaching and the investigations approach. I have used a few of them, so I thought they might come in to use for you.

Jessica Boland, Madison Rose Lane ===http://investigations.terc.edu/library/Games_index.cfm ===

===** [|Robert Conti] ** WQED Channel 13, the folks who did Mr. Rogers, does a great job covering augmentative and alternative communication: http://www.wqed.org/ondemand/onq.php?id= 758  ===   ** WQED > OnQ OnDemand ** www.wqed.org OnQ focuses on a language developed by a Pittsburgh-area man that helps physically and mentally challenged people lead fuller lives. Minspeak allows people to independently communicate a large vocabulary more quickly and efficiently than in similar

RE: need for AAC overview with lots of pictures and limited text:

 These basic leaflets may be of some help: __[]__, especially the “What is AAC?”, which is also available from this site as a PowerPoint presentation as well as pdf.

There is a video about AAC, which can be previewed online: __[]__

There are also loads of video clips of people using AAC on __[|www.youtube.com]__ such as this one: __[]__

ACE Centre North has also recently developed these simple case studies of young children using AAC:__[]__ __** EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES **__ __** [|national and state government websites] [|Reading Resources] **__ []

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Posted on QIAT, March '09

Here are a list of sites that I used recently in a training. There might be a couple of websites that are on both lists

@http://www.diigo.com/list/hindie/free-boardmaker-supports __<span class="yshortcuts" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">@http://www.diigo.com/list/hindie/freecommunicaiton __

Hindie Becker Dershowitz Diagnostic Specialist for Assistive Technology

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Teaching Money Skills
from Talking SMARTBoards & Much More! by anne marie, posted 3/4/10 I was asked by one of the SpEd Teachers if I knew of any interactive activities that would reinforce and review money skills- specifically using money to purchase items. I directed her to Dositey’s Math Shopping. Basically this activity brings students to a virtual store where they must shop for items that have a combined total that matches the amount of money they have. When you click the “start” button four coins will appear on the screen (placing your cursor on the coins will enlarge them) and the cashier will tell you how to play the game

Go Figure- Math
from Talking SMARTBoards & Much More! by anne marie, posted 2/17/10 Go Figure is a wonderful interactive site that reinforces and allows students to practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills. There are four difficulty levels. Basically the student is given an equation and has to choose which operation(s) are needed to arrive at the correct answer. There are very explicit directions on the site. This would work very well on the SMARTBoard or as a review using laptops or in a computer lab. ENJOY!

MathLive
from Talking SMARTBoards & Much More! by anne marie, posted 2/18/10 MathLive is a wonderful site created by Alberta Education and Edmonton Catholic Schools. MathLive is a collection of interactive lessons covering several areas including number sense, patterns, shape & space, statistics and probability, fractions, decimals, displaying data, etc. Click on the lesson tab at the bottom of the screen to view all of the available lessons. The glossary tab (at the bottom of the screen) will bring you to a page with a plethora of definitions, including visual supports and some being interactive. These lessons present well on the SMARTBoard. ENJOY!

25 places to find instructional videos
from Jane's Learning Pick of the Day by Jane Hart, February 8, 2010 Recently I have received a number of emails asking about places that offer free instructional videos (on all subjects), so I thought I would put together a posting of the main ones that I know about: Note: This video list has been extracted from my page 101+ Free Websites to find out about Anything and Everything
 * 1) 5min Life Videopedia - instructional and how-to videos
 * 2) Academic Earth - Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars
 * 3) blip.tv - next generation TV network
 * 4) Google Video - videos on all topics
 * 5) Graspr - The instructional video network
 * 6) Howcast - How-to videos
 * 7) iCue - A fun, innovative, learning environment built around video from the NBC News Archives
 * 8) Instructables - Make, HowTo and DIY
 * 9) iTunes U - Faculty are using iTunes U to distribute digital lessons to their students, e.g Stangord, Trinity College Dublin, etc.
 * 10) John Locker - Documentaries and educational videos
 * 11) MindBites - Video instructional marketplace and publishing platform (Some free)
 * 12) MonkeySee - HowTo videos
 * 13) neoK12 - free educational videos and lessons for K-12 school kids
 * 14) Research Channel - 3,500 video titles available
 * 15) SchoolTube - provides students and educators with a safe, world class, video sharing webiste
 * 16) Sparkeo - a flexible video platform
 * 17) SuTree - learn virtually everything by watching how to videos from all over the web.
 * 18) TeacherTube - educational videos
 * 19) TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) - a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.
 * 20) TV Lesson - How to videos
 * 21) Ustream - watch live broadcasts, explore networks ranging from music, talk shows, sports and politics and/or review our past broadcasts.
 * 22) Video Jug - Life explained. On film.
 * 23) Vimeo - a thriving community of people who love to make and share videos
 * 24) YouTube - videos on everything under the sun
 * 25) YouTube EDU - aggregates all the videos from more than 100 institutions of higher education around the US.

Here are some ideas for switch sites from ASHA-div12 post by Carlann Cormier, MS, ATP on 2/7/10

[][|Papunet games] at http://www.papunet.net/games/[|Jackson Pollock] http://jacksonpollock.org/ [|BBC - CBeebies Grownups - CBeebies 'Switch' games] http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/about/specialneeds/physical_cbeebies.shtml[|Adapted Books and Access Training Activities] http://www.learningtools.us/Activities/adapted_books.htm#switch Priory Woods http://www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/resources/programres.htm[|Welcome to SENSwitcher - free switch software] http://www.northerngrid.org/ngflwebsite/sen/intro.htm[|Ngfl : SEN : Online Activity Index free cause/effect setups] http://www.northerngrid.org/ngflwebsite/sen/NetSwitch/index.htm[|RJ's Free Games] http://rjcooper.com/rj%27s-free-games/index.html[|OneSwitch.org.uk : Fun enabling technology and ideas] http://www.oneswitch.org.uk/

Hott Notes for Onscreen Sticky Notes
from Free Resources from the Net for EVERY Learner by Paul Hamilton 01/16/10 Until now, I haven’t used sticky notes on my computer screen. After exploring another application from the **Access Apps** suite, I may start. Sticky notes certainly offer great potential as a tool to help a person stay focused and keep organized. Alternative sticky note products, both free and otherwise, are available; but I quite like what I see with this one. hott notes consists of 3 distinct types of note — message note, checklist note, and scribble note. Current notes may be placed anywhere on the desktop, and will remain where they are put until they are either deleted or archived. hott notes offers multiple customization options. I especially appreciate the customizable hot keys.
 * hott notes** is a nifty little program that is included as part of the **Access Apps** suite of applications that can be downloaded and run from a flash drive on any PC. Of course, the program may also be downloaded from the hott notes website and used on its own.

Cropping YouTube Videos to Create Activities
from Nik's Learning Technology Blog by Nik Peachey 01/13/100 Using YouTube videos with students can be really great, but finding a video with the exact language you want and at a suitable length with too many other distractions around can be really difficult. That's why SafeShare.TVis so useful.


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 * The second and perhaps even more useful function of SafeShare.TV is that it enable you to crop the video clip so that only a particular part is shown. This is particularly useful when you want to build activities or tasks around clips that focus students on particular linguistic features.

Sam Sennott thought you might like to try Dropbox. It rocks! Basically, 2GB storage online that syncs to your computer. You can share files and folders. https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTIwMTczNjA5

[|otr4access] posted a link to these switch activities/resources during her session at CTG09.

Paula Walser, MS/CCC-SLP, ATP, posted her Web 2.0 ideas for CTG09 on this [|wiki].

Atomic Learning hosted a webinar with great ideas for classroom integration of assistive technology. It can be downloaded [|here]

What about (__<span class="yshortcuts" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">@http://www.appigo.com/todo/ __) for <span class="yshortcuts" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">task management ? ToDo provides alerts, checklists, priority, and much more. - from Eric Sailers M.A., CCC-SLP (through QIAT listserve 11/8/09)

Free software install on all computers: [|ReadPlease 2003] [|CoolTimer] countdown timer [|Verbose] text-to-speech free software

Widgets and add-ons that we need the district to consider: [|CLiCk, Speak] for spoken text on the internet [|WordTalk] plug-in to speak text in Microsoft word [|Ghotit] on-line spellchecker. [|Ginger] plug-in that works on-line with Microsoft word for grammar and spellchecking. [|WordWeb] dictionary

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Video Sites for Kids
from Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs by K
 * Disney Go
 * DMKids
 * KideoPlayer
 * KidMango
 * Kid's Video Zone
 * Kid's WB
 * KOL
 * MarvelKids
 * National Geographic Kids Videos
 * Sports Illustrated Kids
 * TotLOL
 * ZuiTube

[|Examples of Accessible Technology Available on School Computers by Montgomery County Public Schools Tech]

[|Pendergast AT Overview]

[|Pendergast Training on Classroom Suite 4 and SmartBoard]

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[|Web Sites for Teaching Reading] from Kate's blog

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[|Free Software for Severe Needs] from Kate's blog

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We’ve all found some treasures on YouTube or TeacherTube that we’d love to keep, but did you know that you can, in fact, have your own copy of an online video? [|Convert Tube] makes it easy to download a video to your own device with just a few clicks. All you have to do is paste the web address of the video into Convert Tube’s URL box, choose the file format you need (mpg, mpg3, mpg4, mov, flv, or 3gp), and click Convert & Download. Within minutes Convert Tube will display a Download button. Click that button and save your new video to your own PC, iPod, PSP, or mobile.

[|...] [|Watch videos]-- link from Harvey Pressman about adding subtitles to your videos.

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=[|Teachers Love SmartBoards]= =.= =.= =.= =Getting SMARTER with SMART Boards=

New and interesting information related to Smart Board use in education. Sunday, March 8, 2009 [|Interactive White Boards and the Autistic Student] I attended the fourth annual "Celebration of Teaching and Learning" this past weekend in NYC.

One of the informative presentations dealt with "Autistic Students Utilizing Interactive Whiteboards," presented by Kathleen McClaskey and Randy Welch.

Read an article by the presenters Kathleen McClaskey and Randy Welsh at this web link:

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Listen to an webinar on this topic at this site:[]

Kathleen and Randy were generous to share the following resources that have been used successfully with their students:

· Starfall: http://www.starfall.com/ · RIF Planet: http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx · BBC CBeebies: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/drilldown/stories/2/1/1/ · Scholastic: http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/story_3.htm · Family Learning: http://familylearning.org.uk/counting_games.html · Priory Woods: http://www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/resources/programres.htm

[|Visit TLWMSN] from [|Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs] by K Feeling like you want to get back into the groove and excitement of teaching? Feel like you want to connect and share ideas with other educators, specialists and folks who are committed to working in the strange and wonderful branch of special education known as intensive, severe or multiple special needs?

Time to join (or come back to) the TLWMSN Ning!

== Terri Trotter, a special education teacher of learners with multiple special needs at Carbon Lehigh Intermediate District is the TLWMSN new administrator and is working hard to make our Ning a place we can all turn to share information ask, questions or tell a funny story. ==

**About [|CLiCk, Speak]**
CLiCk, Speak is an open source, freely available extension for the Firefox web browser. It is part of the CLC-4-TTS Suite of products, it features a mouse driven interface, and it reads web pages - hence its name. Unlike **__[|Fire Vox]__** which is designed for visually impaired users, CLiCk, Speak is designed for sighted users who want text-to-speech functionality. It doesn't identify elements or announce events - two features that are very important for visually impaired users but very annoying for sighted users. It also has a simplified, mouse driven interface that is designed to be easy for users familiar with point-and-click graphical user interfaces. .

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 * [|Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009]
 * [|25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals] (2009 Version).

posted on [|Digital Tools for Learning Professionals] by Paul Hamilton
Annemarie, from [|SMARTBoards & More], shared another great site. [|GameGoo] is a fun site for teaching literacy skills. It's fun, easy to use, and would work great on a SMARTBoard!

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In terms of activities involving technology, here’s a short-list of excellent, free links for pre-schoolers:
 * __[]__ - literacy website
 * __[]__ - literacy website
 * __[]__ - Powerpoint downloads for augmentative communication
 * __[]__ - website for educational videos

Posted by Eric Sailers, M.A., CCC-SLP

Thanks to Goodrich for donating iPod Touches to [|Eric Sailer's] classroom.

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[|Switch-Accessible Book Launcher]

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[|15 Free Web Apps and Software for the 2.0 Teacher] from Karen Schwietzer from [|Teachingdegree.org]

[|20 Online Resources for Special Education Teachers] from Karen Schwietzer from [|Teachingdegree.org]

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