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iBooks Update 1.1.1 Allows Audio and Video
On July 19, 2010, Apple updated iBooks to version 1.1.1. This update adds a key feature, “the ability to experience books that include audio and video.” This is terrific for a wide variety of learners from individuals just learning to read to experienced readers. The key component is the expanded interactive nature of [...]
Digital Books
I believe in good teaching, good research, and combining it with finding innovative ways to accomplish our goals. In this time of exponential possibility, getting back to basics and working from “good seed” so to speak, is always welcome. Here are some books to check out and share. Note: this is easy and fun to [...]
Professional Development DVDs! by Dr. Caroline Musselwhite
The professional development DVD series by Caroline Ramsey Musselwhite is a perfect way to provide training to educators, SLPs, and other people who support individuals with special needs.
These would be great for a professional development series in a school for the upcoming year or for learning over the summer. You can see samples of the [...]
Penn State Literacy Website
http://aacliteracy.psu.edu
Literacy Instruction
for Individuals with Autism,
Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome
and Other Disabilities
Janice Light & David McNaughton
The Pennsylvania State University
Run, don’t walk to checking out this awesome website full of exemplars of students with complex communication needs learning to read and write. The website comes out of the longitudinal research of Dr. Janice Light and Dr. David [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
One to One Thousand Proof of Concept
by Samuel Sennott
The Tar Heel Reader just reached the one thousand books mark this past week. This is so exciting for students and teachers alike. So much thanks for the work of the UNC Center for Literacy and Disability Studies and for the Computer Science work of Gary Bishop and now his class. I think [...]
