Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 26, 2019

Accessibility is an important topic in education and encompasses the classroom space, digital tools and resources and much more. Creating an Accessibility-Friendly Classroom Environment Is the classroom bursting with patterned borders on the bulletin boards and bright colorful posters/word walls/anchor charts?

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

Mike shares tips and strategies to help teachers shake up inclusive learning in their classrooms. The school needed his expertise to help keep its assistive technology up and running as it was a school for children and adults with disabilities. Every student brings their own unique learning needs to the classroom.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 3, 2021

In this episode, Kasey shares her best tips and ideas for creating and using digital choice boards in the K-12 classroom. You’ll learn some of the common misconceptions about creating choice boards, but most importantly, you’ll learn how to get started with utilizing the choice board for your classroom. Click To Tweet.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 16, 2015

Chromebooks and Google Apps are excellent assistive technology (AT) that help students with special needs access curriculum and information. Students can use Chrome as a voice recognition app and type long documents and essays without touching the keyboard. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A few techie points: It was terrific hanging out with many of the folks I have corresponded with on Twitter through the #slpeeps community, and meeting some I had never met IRL (in real life). The halls all seemed longer, the escalators higher, and the men''s bathrooms (that hadn''t been converted into women''s) further apart.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 31, 2019

And, even though October is ending soon, you can still join the conversation around dyslexia awareness by using the hashtags #DyslexiaAwareness and #DyslexiaAwarenessMonth on Twitter. There are so many assistive technology tools to support students with dyslexia. These tools can all our students be successful in the classroom.

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Microsoft Tools Assistive Technology Secondary 52

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In some of the statistics about online acceessibility , we see that, up to 20% of people are excluded from websites when our site is not accessible. To using software and other technologies in the classroom that are accessible to all students.

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