Monday, July 19, 2010

Assistive Technology Day 11 July 19, 2010

I was so excited about today seeing everyones presentations on low tech, off the shelf and then a unique designs made by our classmates; they were brilliant. Some were altered from the off the shelf items and most were simple creative ways to find a solution, it was amazing. I am a believer in keeping it simple and was thrilled to see how many people worked under this premise.

Just to see the learning taking place in this class this course is encouraging because we need the knowledge in order to bring the solutions to our classrooms, learning centers or resource positions. So thank you to everyone for this valuable experience, I am able to review your blogs to revisit your innovations and experiment with in my new position this year.

After this we worked on our Boardmaker plus assignments, a book, communication board and an IPP with 2 annual goals, we started this assignment on Friday afternoon and worked on the paper side on the weekend so that all we had to do today was put it all together, and yes then send it to Barb! C'est Fini.

For me the scanning and switch component was the part that I found the most intriguing, mind boggling and after the class on switches quite overwhelming, in a good way. It made me realize just how much we need to learn in order to better able support our students, and yes we can and should ask for help; we do have access to the resources that support the learning.

I found in a couple of interesting sites in Canada, that are devoted to assistive technology, they are taking a browse through, we all the resources we can find.







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