Another great Blog! Speech-Language Pathology Sharing

Check out this Blog for info on the new iPad and scroll down to an embedded document iPhone and iPod touch Apps for Special Education. It's an incredibly comprehensive list that categorizes apps for communication, organization, reading, writing, math and general AT. The blogger, Eric Sailers, is a speech pathologist and AT specialist in San Diego, CA. It's been added to our list of Blogs for future reference (or you can get email alerts as mentioned previously).

Coming Soon! Blio eReader

The FREE Blio eReader software is a new presentation of electronic books & magazines. It has full-color and 3D so image-rich books are now available in digital format. Blio preserves a book’s original layout, fonts, and graphics.

The selection includes cookbooks, travel guides, how-to books, schoolbooks, art books, children’s stories, and magazines. The display lets you insert highlights, notes, videos, and even webpages. Selected books also go hands-free with Blio’s read-aloud feature.

Get emails about Blog posts via Google Alerts

At iGoogle (post title will navigate there), choose Alerts. In the Search Items box enter "assistive technology upper peninsula". Use the Type dropdown arrow and choose Blogs, choose how often and what email address you want the notification sent to. Try it out!

Marquette Area Public Schools Technology website

Check out these newly posted sites – teaching resources in content areas:
Go to www.mapsnet.org > Staff Resources > Technology Links > Teacher Resource Links
Social Studies Links: 4-5 grades Social Studies Alive online curriculum links for Students & Teachers
Reference & Teaching Sites: Peter White Public Library – download audio books directly to your computer - teachers
MAPS Library Page – online catalog and many resources from Michigan Electronic Library- all grades
NY Times The Learning Network - for 5 – 12 grades and lots of teacher materials
English Language Arts: Read, Write, Think – online writing activities & organizers of all types for 2 – 12 grades
Tween Tribune – all the news for and by students 5 – 12 grades
Science Links: Science Blog Teaching with Technology- 6 – 12 grades How To’s & videos & great tech ideas
The Rock Cycle – PowerPoint you can download from DEQ, grades 3 - 12
Math Resource Links: Mr. Maffesoli’s GLCEs –– listing of web activities correlated to K- 5 Math GLCEs

Need to Right Click with Camera Mouse?

While trying the new free camera mouse with Clicker 5, we ran into the problem of not being able to Right Click. With Clicker, the Right click is used to listen to the contents of a cell before posting it to the document. The solution is a program called ClickAid. ClickAid is also free and can be run with camera mouse to double click, right click or drag.

iPod App: Model Me Going Places - Free!

Another iTouch and iPhone app to help kids with autism transition when going to scary places like the doctors office, getting a haircut or the mall. It has audio narration and a text description of each photo. Just 6 places are featured, but its free!

Watch Me Learn - teaching flashcards on iPods

Looks like a useful tool to teach vocabulary for $1.99 through iTunes.
Expressive and receptive language in English AND Spannish
Real Life photographs for sensory stimulation
Written word (visual) - in English and Spanish
Spoken word (audio) - in English and Spanish
Picture of word
Compliments the Watch Me Learn® videos

Need CEU's?

Archived webinars from ATIA for $35 + 0.1 IACET credit for the registrant. Up to 3 additional certificates available for $15 each. Visit ATIA Education on Demand by clicking post title!