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How Tablet Games Can Teach Skills to Students with Visual Impairments

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Schultz has taken a career in building special needs software and games for people who are blind or have low vision into ObjectiveEd, a new endeavor at a time when investor interest in educational tools and investor interest in assistive technology are apparently on the rise. million across 38 deals in 2012 to $276.5

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Access Your Stuff with Parallels Access

Kathy Schrock

Parallels Access screenshot Parallels Access is the coolest new program for your iPad and your Mac or Windows computer! Take a look at a quick screencast I made from the iPad running the Parallels Access Program. The Parallels Access solution has two components. Teachers and students can use Parallels Access to access (!)

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ASHA 2013 Update- from a Techie Point of View!

SpeechTechie

ASHA 2013 in Chicago is in the books. Additionally, WiFi was in my experience generally accessible in conference rooms, and free to boot! This session always focuses on facilitating access to curriculum for LLD students through a strategic language-based focus. It was great traveling to one of my favorite cities for this event.

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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

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It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. A settlement that would have created a Book Rights Registry and made it possible to access the Google Books corpus through public-library terminals ultimately died, rejected by a federal judge in 2011.

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Thingiverse: Discover, Make, And Share 3D Printer Designs

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It is also the home to a number of competitions like the Assistive Technology and Fall STEAM Challenges , which invite community members to collaborate and create across the globe. During its first six months, the site averaged between 30 and 40 uploads per week. million downloads per month.

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Wakelet

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Collaborators can be given access directly via their Wakelet profile name or email, or indirectly via URLs and QR codes. I have been an educator since 2013. Since you can easily access your Google Drive inside of a Collection, this gives me the ability to share those videos quickly. Stella, welcome to Edtech Elixirs!