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How RSS Can Simplify Your Life!

Did you check out the AT Strategy-A-Day calendar entry this past weekend?  Do you have difficulty finding the time to research and learn about new trends in education?  Why not let RSS do the work for you?  RSS, otherwise known as ”really simple syndication” is a method of bringing specific content directly to you, rather that searching through [...]

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Twitterific!

 
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 [...]

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Word Clouds with Wordle

(word cloud of the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines published by CAST)
 
Have you heard the buzz about word clouds?  A word/tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated text (single words) that is typically listed alphabetically, with the importance of the tag shown through font size or color.  This makes finding a tag alphabetically or by popularity quick and simple.  Word [...]

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AT Highlights from VSTE 2009

 
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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Wake Up with TeacherTube

 
Have you been to TeacherTube recently?  If not, you are missing scores of incredible instructional video clips available on demand all for free!  If your like me, you probably have the best intentions to visit sites like this and review videos but just can’t seem to squeeze enough time into the day.  Well….why not sign up the TeacherTube [...]

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