Archive for October 2008
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Halloween, Harvest, and Fall Books
by Samuel Sennott
Hi, please do check out these Halloween, Harvest, and Fall Books on the Tar Heel Reader.
Here is the link to the bookshelf. You have to delete some books to get to all 26 on the list. I am showing you the full link, so you can see how the system works.
http://tarheelreader.org/favorites/?books=5195,5193,5050,4994,4992,4976,4868
,4794,4628,4566,4354,4382,4381,4279,4247,4211,4177,
4075,4040,4025,3743,3855,3879,3858,3741,3719
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Give One Get One OLPC XO @Amazon
by Samuel Sennott
Starting on November 17th, the XO will again be available in the United States and beyond, this time through Amazon. I remember last year setting the alarm for early in the morning on November 12, when they first became available. Much has happened regarding the XO and the whole movement in general. One [...]
Bookshelves Please Handout
by Samuel Sennott
Saturday’s workshop was outright terrific. The participants excitement about the curriculum project, Bookshelves Please was tangible. I look forward to sharing about the prototyping and more about the project. For now, a few participants did not recieve the handout. Here it is: bookshelves-please-handout
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Closing the Gap in the Star Tribune
by Samuel Sennott
Check out this video made by my uncle, Richard Sennott, for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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Open Learning Portfolio Template
by Samuel Sennott
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In the one room schoolhouse of yesteryear, there were children of differing ages, with varying learning profiles, and vastly different learning objectives. State and district multiple choice, diagnostic systems (supposedly diagnostic) may be easily scored, disseminated, and interpreted by a microcomputer application. Yet, for all learners a better assessment system, or possibly more [...]
Imagine Symbols
by Samuel Sennott
Do you know about the 4000 Imagine Symbol set that is free for personal use. You can go to www.imaginesymbols.com and download the entire brightly colored set of picture symbols. There are also low cost options to liscense the symbols. Don’t forget that you can load them into your iPhoto library for easy [...]
Restaurant of AAC Dreams
by Samuel Sennott
Check out this London restaurant reported on by Engadget. How fun would it be to go here with people using AAC? And if they had some scanning/ alternate access options. Fun dreams.
London restaurant claims fame with touch-sensitive tables, colorful menu projectors
by Samuel Axon, posted Oct 8th 2008 at 2:36AM
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Wireless Switch from Prentke Romich
by Samuel Sennott
Prentke Romich Company announces a wireless switch that should be nice to see in action next week at Closing the Gap. How many times have you wished for this? The Jelly Beamer is cool, but common, they definitely got it right going with the pervasive Bluetooth technology. It will be interesting to get [...]
myWebspiration Public Beta
by Samuel Sennott
Are you participating in the public beta test of myWebspiration. (www.mywebspiration.com) From the makers of the graphic organizing softwares Inspiration, Kidspiration, and Inspiredata, comes the web 2.0 version of the software. In my intial trials of using myWebspiration, my impression is that for the basics it works just like Inspiration, my graphic organizing [...]
Closing the Gap Article October/November 2008
by Samuel Sennott
Just wanted to share that my team from this summer and I had some work published in the Closing the Gap Newspaper turned magazine in the current issue, which is October/November 2008. We are thrilled to be able to share some of the insight from our work focusing on users of AAC and [...]
