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Transcript: Algebra2go -"Audio-taped books (e.g.books-on-tape from Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic) (Considering Technology in the IEP Process, pg. 9)" can help students with various difficulties that interfere with their literacy skills. -Blind individuals can use audiobooks to make it easier for them to read, and also to have access to literature that may have been limited to text that has been transferred to braille. -Students with dyslexia can use audiobooks instead of reading, or they can use audiobooks as they follow along in the text to help them become acclamated to how they see words in print. MOOC-Ed Flipped Learning Network PBS Kids Play Professional Responsibilities -ASCD is an online company that offers online courses to teachers, with the mission to help them improve their teaching practices (ASCD Online Courses for Teachers, 2014) -With approval from certain institutions, teachers can actually earn academic or career credit through courses from ASCD Internet Resources -A great way to make lessons more engaging to a different variety of learners -User-friendly so as to appeal to "technophobic" teachers - Helps students get acclamated to scientific reasoning because it "require[s] learner design of processes that involve scientific principles" (Honey & Hilton, pg. 62) Interactive Whiteboards Collaboration Technologies Digital Resources Animoto Hearing Aids Animoto is a website that lets users upload photos, choose music, and create engaging videos with little effort or knowledge of how to do so. A great way to share a lesson concept with other teachers by filming or taking photos of the lesson, and creating a video to share (Animoto, 2014). This audio-visual program lets teachers compose tutorials, showcase videos, and summaries of lessons by combining music, pictures, and video -Helps students transition from being a consumer into being a creator -Helps students develop literacy skills such as writing and understanding sequence of events English Companion "Good teaching practices should drive technology use instead of technology driving the practice of teaching." IEP Technologies -A series of videos that highlight important recent dicoveries in the field of science (Andrew, E., 2014). -Helps students understand what science truly means, and that people are making new breakthroughs every day. Google Drive -"An e-portfolio is a collection of work developed across varied contexts over time and displayed on the World Wide Web (Bina P., pg. 3)". -With an e-portfolio, teachers are able to effectively advertise themselves to prospective employers. -E-portfolios can help teachers connect and network with other teachers, as they can collaborate easier and share accomplishments and resources with each other. Storybird ...with a reading focus Photobucket -"A speech- to-text support service called C-Print allows real time display of information on a computer screen or TV monitor, and Communication Access Real Time Translation provides verbatim information by the stenographer. Both have been tested to be effective (Elliot, Foster, & Stinson, 2002). (Lee, pg. 215)". -These devices can help people that have hearing impairments record information that is being taught in class, so that they can learn it at the same time it is being taught even though they cannot hear the information. -They can also be helpful for students with disabilities that impair their ability to take notes, especially if they do not have the use of their hands. Internet Safety Interactive Learning Games -"56 educational games, all based on national educational standards such as Common Core. Build skills with Math games, Science games, Reading games -- plus unique activities that deal with emotional development (child emotions), child safety, and even help learn foreign languages (PBS Kids Play Youtube Channel, 2010)". -This gameplay platform designed for younger age groups would be ideal for use in the classroom to support children with IEPs that have cognitive or emotional based learning disabilities. This website lets users transform files into different file types (Intel Teach Elements, 2013). A great way to share files with others that use different operating systems. This website helps children learn how to think and write creatively by providing prompts and serving as a guide (Storystarters, 2014). A great addition to elementary writing curriculum or practice -"Power Up" by Doug Johnson Instruction Speech to Text Software Voice Recorder Labyrinth Khan Academy "LABYRINTH is funded by the U.S. Department of Education with a primary goal of enhancing pre-algebra mathematics learning, and a secondary goal of improving literacy (Klopfer, 2009)". -In this engaging and education-centered video game, players go on a journey through a mythical world in order to free their pet from monsters. The puzzles they need to solve in order to free the pet develop their mathematical and literacy skills. -Children also learn how to think like mathmeticians
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