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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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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Introducing the Vantage Lite from Prentke Romich
by Samuel Sennott
It is exciting to report the arrival of the Vantage Lite, the newest AAC device from Prentke Romich Company. In my early childhood classroom program we have been greatly appreciating the Springboard Lite. The most important advantages of the Lite series in general is that they are physically lighter, have brighter backlit displays, [...]
2nd Generation OLPC Laptop has Dual Touchscreens
by Samuel Sennott
Things are changing. The second generation OLPC laptop will have dual touchscreens and will be designed to function like a book. What does this mean for early childhood education, special education, and augmentative and alternative communication? Over the course of this summer, we will be exploring this with the goal [...]
UDL Editions from CAST and Google
Sent for submission by CAST
CAST Joins Google and Partners to Celebrate World Book Day
Releases innovative literacy tools to support reading and learning from books, websites
In partnership with Google, CAST today celebrated World Book Day, April 23, 2008, by introducing two new online literacy tools that provide robust, embedded learning supports for readers at [...]
Photo Ball for Story Telling
by Samuel Sennott
Check out the Talking Photo Ball by Brookstones for creating a simple four location story telling voice output device.
Each of the four sides has a switch that can hold a recorded message. This could be a helpful tool for sharing short co-planned sequenced social scripts for direct selectors. Theoretically you could [...]
Writing with Comic Creator on Read Write Think
by Samuel Sennott
Things have shifted dramatically where we encourage students to have comic books in school, all because they are reading and are motivated! Writing a comic can be enjoyable for students of varying ages. Check out the excellent Comic Creator on the Read-Write-Think site. Be careful of losing work though as there is not [...]
IconSpeak for the XO
by Samuel Sennott
Update New Site: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FreeIconToSpeech
Current Article: http://s54379.gridserver.com/software/applications/free_icon-to-speech_open-source_speech_for_disabled.html
IconSpeak is the first attempts at a dynamic display augmentative communication software for the XO laptop. Recently, I posted about Speak, which IconSpeak is built on. Check out the main screen, as of Thursday 4/3/08:
You can see that there are sign language based icons, mixed with [...]
Printable Making Words Cards
by Samuel Sennott
Making Words lessons are a terrific way to help learners actively construct letter sound correspondences and learn patterns of sounds that work together. It is a reccomended lesson type in the Four Blocks Framework’s —Working with Words block.
Check out these printable letter cards. They are two inch symbols. Simply print them with [...]
Microsoft Word and Slater Software’s Free Online Symbol Resource-Video Podcast
An alltogether.wordpress.com Podcast by Samuel Sennott.
Slater Software, creators of the excellent literacy and communication software, Picture It, generously offer a free online symbol resource search tool. Click here to to it: http://www.slatersoftware.com/PixLibrary.html
This assistive technology podcast demonstrates how to create a nine location augmentative communication board utilizing Microsoft Word and this free Literacy Support Picture Search [...]
