Posted on October 26th, 2009 by mnichol1
Do you find it hard to keep up with all the advancements in technology? As a school administrator are you successfully integrating technology to support your daily productivity? With the rapid rate at which technology evolves, I also find it difficult to keep abreast of all the changes. With this in mind, I decided to create a technology blog tailored to Loudoun County Public School administrators as a guide through the vast and ever changing world of technology. Posted within this blog
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Posted on December 3rd, 2009 by mnichol1
The Assistive Technology team is pleased to announce our first annual AT ToyShop. For complete event details click the link to the right – AT ToyShop 2009
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Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by mnichol1
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending the northern Virginia college and career forum called Future Quest 2009. As a first time attendee I was VERY impressed. This is an incredible free event for families and educators to gather information to help plan and prepare for post-secondary education and career training. While I was only able to attend for part of the day, I was amazed by the amount of resource fair tables packed with literature and freebies as well as instructional sessions and panel discussions. There were over 15 unique sessions! A small sampling of the session titles are listed below: Read more…
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Posted on November 24th, 2009 by mnichol1
Looking for a good movie to watch with family and friends during the upcoming break? Below are some of my favorite movies and documentaries that highlight some amazing accomplishments by individuals with disabilities. Have a great movie to add to this list? Simply leave the information in the comment section below and I’ll add the movie to this post!
The Music Within http://www.musicwithinmovie.com (movie trailer available within link).The true story of Richard Pimentel, a brilliant public speaker with a troubled past, who returns from Vietnam severely hearing -impaired and finds a new purpose in his landmark efforts on the behalf of Americans with disabilities.
MurderBall http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436613/ (movie trailer available within link). An award-winning film about paraplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs – overcoming unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece. Read more…
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Posted on November 16th, 2009 by mnichol1
Do you know what style of professional development your teachers prefer? We do! This year, Assistive Technology Trainer Karen Dietrich surveyed over 200 teachers to collect data for team analysis in further developing and enhancing assistive technology professional development. The survey was completed during the months of August and September and the results have been compiled into a variety of visually engaging graphs accessible at http://www.tinyurl.com/whatteacherswant. Results can be reviewed for the entire district, filtered by general education and special education, grade level and even disability.
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Posted on November 14th, 2009 by mnichol1
Below is an update from Joy Zabala, Director of Technical Assistance for CAST and the National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials regarding a wonderful new Universal Design for Learning resource. This was a message orginally posted by Joy on the QIAT listserv.
“CAST has recently launched the website for the National Center on Universal Design for Learning http://www.udlcenter.org with core content on UDL for teachers, UDL advocates, researchers, and parents. One foundational resource on the website is the UDL Guidelines (http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines) which now include a research bibliography of over 800 references.
We need your help! We are now moving onto the next phase of gathering, evaluating and posting teacher/parent-friendly examples and resources for each of the UDL Guidelines and would like suggestions from you as to what you’ve found to be useful to learners (both free and commercial products).
So far, we have posted examples and resources for all of Guideline 1 and part of Guideline 2. We would love to get your feedback! (email: udlcenter@cast.org) Please let us know what you think and if you have any other ideas of examples and resources to share! We will send this link out periodically as we move on to post examples and resources for other Guidelines so that we can be sure to get your input! ”
www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines/examples
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