Today I really feel that our Project Based Learning presentation is coming together. We did a lot of research on possible assistive technology (AT) for students within our Class Profile. Each student provided our group the opportunity to communicate around the description of the disability, decide what AT is best for that student to achieve the writing requirements based on the task analysis for our project as well as create a brief description of the actual activity they will be completing. In researching the AT, I found it amazing how much is available and the extent of assistance to which these programs, gadgets and software provide for students. Some examples included Clicker 5, Track Ball, Smartboard, a Wiggle Seat and Skype. We found many apps as well to assist the students in our profile. These included Proloquo2Go, iReward, Fluid, BubbleWrap and ListsFree just to name a few.
We will continue to work on our Class Profile and find beneficial AT for the students. We will also move forward and research videos and website links that would help visualize and demonstrate the AT we are focusing on for our presentation to the BEd students.
Today I also had the opportunity to download Skype and create contacts. With my Project Based Learning Group we created a group within Skype so we are now able to talk with one another at the same time.
Great experiences today!
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