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Wiimote Whiteboard in Education: A Tutorial
The primary aim of this post is to help spread that word that you can easily create an interactive whiteboard. You order an $8 LED light pen online, combine that with a $40 Nintendo Wii Remote, some free software, http://www.uweschmidt.org/wiimote-whiteboard, and bam you have an interactive whiteboard. Simple…powerful and..cool. Special thanks to [...]
A Writer, a Pencil, a Reason, and a Teacher at ATIA 2009
ATIA 2009 Session: A Writer, a Pencil, a Reason, and a Teacher
Session Handout: a-writer-a-pencil-a-reason-and-a-teacher
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Proloquo2Go: AAC in Your Pocket
Proloquo2Go for the iPhone and iPod touch
AssistiveWare and Sennott Consulting are working on a groundbreaking Augmentative & Alternative Communication solution for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch called Proloquo2Go™
www.proloquo2go.com
It is very exciting to be able to share this news with you. We will be at ATIA this week and would love to see you and tell [...]
Reading, Writing, and Playing: How Games Can Play a Key Role in the Classroom
To be Presented with Matthew Press at ATIA 2009 on Thursday, January 29th 2008 2:30 to 3:30 PM in the Room Bonaire 5/6
Download the Session PDF Handout: Reading, Writing, and Playing: How Games Can Play a Key Role in the Classroom Handout (Sennott, Press 2009)
Primary Aim: To help you improve your instructional design by [...]
Pretend You Were @ the Inauguration
Can you find me at the Inauguration?
By going to www.myinauguralphoto.com, you too can pretend you were at the Inauguration. Just saw this on the awesome TechCrunch and thought it was a neat simple motivational/ creative tool option for writing block that some of your students may be interested in using this resource.
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Barack Obama is Inaugurated Read/Write/ Engage Kit
by Samuel Sennott
Here are some curriculum components to be used to design lessons based on considering the Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America on Tuesday January 20th, 2008.
Video of the Inauguration Speech (With Captions)
Part One
Part Two
Use http://mediaconverter.net to download the video, if YouTube is blocked at [...]
The New Bookshare.org Website
by Samuel Sennott
Have you seen the new Bookshare.org website?
Did you know these three things about Bookshare.org?
Bookshare™ is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities. Student memberships are currently funded by an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
Bookshare dramatically increases the accessibility of books. Bookshare believes that people [...]
The Best YouTube Video I Have Ever Seen
By Samuel Sennott
and if you liked that one, check out this one:
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Back in Action
by Samuel Sennott
There is a time for all things under the sun. It has been my time to transition. My beautiful fall and early winter sabbatical was filled with wrestling the new puppy in Vermont, reading linguistics at the Dartmouth College library, and developing an iPhone AAC application: Proloquo2Go. Last week I [...]
