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| Activity of the Month |  So, you have a box of crayons, a hair dryer, a Powerlink, and a switch. Add a canvas and you have the makings for a unique piece of art! Kate Ahern has a blog post about doing this activity in her classroom. |
| Amazing Apps! |  There are sooooooooo many AAC Apps... How do you make sense of them all? Do any of them scan? What's the difference between a free one and the one that costs $300.00? Kelly Fonner and Scott Marfilius have created a checklist of app features to help you sort through these questions. It also includes links to a number of websites that maintain current lists of AAC and special education apps. |
Freeware
|  Want a unique, visual, EASY TO USE way for students to organize and construct their class presentation? Sure, they could put together a 3 page paper, or paste images onto a poster board, or create a PowerPoint presentation. But they could also use Prezi. What is Prezi you might ask? Visit their website and watch the short introductory video. After that, create a free account and turn your students loose. You will be amazed at what they can create! (and remember, just because this new tool might be foreign and a little bit scary to you, it will likely be FUN and EASY to your students!). |
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Grab Bag
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 Oklahoma ABLETech and the Oklahoma Assistive Technology Center joined forces this school year to make available assistive technology tools that focus on providing access to instructional materials in the educational setting. Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) are tools that provide access to curricular content and can be used by students with print disabilities such as a vision impairment, physical impairment and/or
a reading disability (such as dyslexia). ABLETech provided the following AT tools to OATC for demonstration purposes: iPad (with Read2Go), Classmate Reader, Intel Reader, Kindle 3G, and TextHelp Read and Write Gold Portable. These devices are available for demo at either our Tulsa or Oklahoma City location and can also be demonstrated at your school site during an Assistive Technology Consultation. Want to learn more about AIM, how it is supported by IDEA (2004), and how to get accessible instructional materials in a timely manner for all your students with disabilities, please visit the Oklahoma ABLETech website. |
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Wishing you all the best!
Stefanie Olson Oklahoma Assistive Technology Center
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Oklahoma Assistive Technology Center 1600 N. Phillips Ave. 4502 E. 41st. St., 2J18
Oklahoma City, OK 73104 Tulsa, OK 74135
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