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COVID-19 Is Costing Visually Impaired Students Time That Can’t Be Made Up

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On the flip side, technology caused stress in families where parents became navigators for students who could not use assistive technology independently. A huge focus for me is training teachers to use educational technology in a way that’s effective with students that use assistive technology.”

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Create Narrated Slide or Video Shows with Videolicious

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Videolicious is a simple video creator- it allows you select photos or videos from your photo library/camera roll and talk over them, effectively creating a narrated video. Leave the Videolicious app and turn on Airplane Mode in the Settings app of your iPad. This disconnects your iPad from the Internet. Create your video.

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mARch: Augmenting with Aurasma, Part 1.

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Note: Aurasma is available for free for iPhone, iPod and iPad 2 and above. My apologies to readers with an iPad 1. In this series of steps, you will see how to make an image aura from Aurasma''s own library of images "float" above a book page when the page is scanned. Aurasma is actually pretty easy to use! So, first, a context.

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mARch: Augmenting with Aurasma, Part 2- Making it Your Own!

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In the last post, we looked at how to use Aurasma''s own library of images, animations and 3D models to create an "aura"- an image overlay that appears when you scan a visual material (usually, another image). If you are not sure how to do this step, see this post about Saving Images to iPad. and how to share auras to other devices.

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Summer Reading, Part 2

SpeechTechie

Given the above two factors, I had begun to convince myself that I can effectively continue as a reader using my iPad and iPhone. If I can leave you with another tech tip, minimalism also attracted me to the use of Overdrive and my local library card. The night mode features of reading apps were particularly attractive here.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

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In addition, ABC Mouse has shared releases and updates for ABCmouse Mastering Math, Digital Library Experience, Standards-Aligned Collections, A New Teacher Experience, and the ABCmouse Ambassador Program. This program adds full home access for students, custom curriculum alignment, performance reporting, professional development, and more.

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Innovative Communication Techniques for Individuals with Autism

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VizZle provides a library of more than 14,000 lessons and the tools and media to customize them or create your own from scratch. The lessons can be tailored to any grade level, assigned to any student, and played on iPad or Android tablets, laptop or desktop computers. We want every child with autism to receive effective instruction!

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