Technology tips & awareness tools for school administrators
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 [...]
Have you noticed the new assistive technology display board within your school this year? Over the summer, the assistive technology team built kiosk displays for all schools which highlight various technology tools on the instructional matrix, strategies for integrating these tools into the curriculum, and a wide variety of additional resources. The boards were delivered to schools during the months [...]
Do you live in Twitterville? Twitter can be used as a powerful professional learning network for teachers and administrators! Best of all, Twitter is an extremely popular (and free) resource among the online community. Basically, Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service utilizing instant messaging (commonly referred to as tweets). Tweets are updates to a users Twitter profile page and [...]
Want a quick and easy way to create a professional looking slideshow of images and pictures (easier than using PhotoStory 3 or Windows Movie Maker)? Animoto is the answer! Animoto videos are music videos for your images and pictures. High production value motion graphics synchronized to every beat of your music! You can add your [...]
http://thisissand.comis a website that changes the pixels on the screen into digital sand that can be used to create sand paintings. This is a potentially great website for students learning basic mouse skills or any artist looking for a digital method for expressing themselves through art and play! Administrators…need a brief mental break? Why not give it a try. There’s no mess and [...]
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