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 [...]
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Filed under: Cool Tools!, Universal Design for Learning
Posted on November 12th, 2009 by mnichol1
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 [...]
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Filed under: Cool Tools!, LCPS Assistive Technology, LCPS Instructional Network, Manipulating Multimedia (Images, Videos, Audio, Etc.), Universal Design for Learning
Posted on November 5th, 2009 by mnichol1
The Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd) is an incredible online resource for teachers and administrators funded by funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs and is a cooperative effort of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), and the Education Development Center (EDC). [...]
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Filed under: Miscellaneous, Universal Design for Learning
Posted on March 1st, 2009 by mnichol1
Members of the Assistive Technology team were fortunate to attend and present at the annual Virginia Society for Technology in Education conference this past week. All presentation materials and handouts by LCPS Assistive Technology can be found at http://tinyurl.com/lcpsatvste09
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Filed under: LCPS Assistive Technology, Universal Design for Learning, Web 2.0 Tools and Beyond
Posted on February 16th, 2009 by mnichol1
Have you ever heard of Siftables? Developed by MIT grad student David Merrill, this is quite possibly one of the most dynamic emerging technologies I have ever seen. The potential application of this technology across k-12 environments is absolutely mind boggling. Siftables are tiny computerized blocks that interact with each other and fosters a high level of multi-modal kinestheic [...]
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Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Universal Design for Learning
