photo from www.fastcodesign.com From Good.is:  Can Better Designed Classroom Furniture Help Students Who Can’t Sit Still? A Dutch architectural company has been trying to help fidgety kids concentrate better with their modular furniture design. Simplistic? Perhaps. Worth considering? Definitely. They’ve designed stylish furniture for a school that is specifically for students with LD and concentration [...]
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Posted in Low Tech Tools on Mar 20th, 2008 10 Comments »
Onion Mountain Technology 74 Sextons Hollow Road Canton, CT 06019-2102 860-693-2683 LOTTI kits and assistive technology resources.
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Posted in Low Tech Tools on Jun 29th, 2007 No Comments »
LoTTIE* Kits are collections of low tech tools like highlighters, left handed scissors, talking calculators, Franklin spellers, and more. There are a variety of kits, each aimed at different types of students with different types of needs. The person behind these kits is Judi Sweeney who I’ve known as a first rate technology consultant and [...]
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Posted in Low Tech Tools on Mar 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
SmudgeGuard is for left handed folks or anyone who smudges wet ink on paper as they handwrite over it. Available from and manufactured by SmudgeGuard (Source Cool Tools.)
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Posted in Low Tech Tools on Aug 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Playing Around With a Calculator? No, Working Out: “Just in time for school, Sharp Electronics has released two calculators with built-in math drill features.” (Source NYT > Technology.)
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Posted in Low Tech Tools on Jul 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Listen to the Lecture, Then Look Up All Those Big Words: “The Merriam-Webster Dictionary and MP3 Player combines a dictionary, world clock, calculator and digital music player into one small device.” (Via NYT > Technology.)
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Posted in Low Tech Tools on Jan 25th, 2006 No Comments »
The Thumb Thing is a small, plastic “gizmo” that fits on your thumb and allows you to hold a book open with one hand while reading. Useful, inexpensive and one of the sites that sells it, ABC Stuff has other useful reading tools. (Via Cool Tools.)
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Posted in Low Tech Tools on May 17th, 2005 5 Comments »
© Judith Sweeney jsweeney@onionmountaintech.com onionmountaintech.com/ I have a confession to make. I never read manuals if I can help it. I open software, install it, and just dive right in. I plug in peripheral devices and just experiment until they work or I am forced back into the manual to figure out the “finer details.” [...]
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Posted in Low Tech Tools on Apr 18th, 2005 1 Comment »
Phil Gyford has a neat trick, by which he adds a few large Post-it notes to the inside cover of a book he’s starting to read. Handy way to make notes on the go. I’m also a big fan of these removable/re-placeable Avery Write-On tabs, which you can stick in the front cover of your [...]
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Posted in Low Tech Tools on Feb 21st, 2005 2 Comments »
The Anadigit Talking Clock is an excellent tool for learning to tell time: it has both digital and analog faces on the same clock and it speaks the time as well. This allows someone learning the harder analog face to use the digital and speech for support and comparison. It’s not expensive and runs on [...]
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Posted in Low Tech Tools on Nov 9th, 2004 7 Comments »
Rubber stamps are amazing tools. Most people take them for granted, but there is a sub-culture of rubber stamp addicts out there (no joke) who take their tools and their art very seriously. There are many suppliers of rubber stamps but none better than my old friend Leavenworth Jackson. I met Leavenworth years ago while [...]
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Posted in Low Tech Tools on Nov 9th, 2004 Comments Off
Use tape flags to mark books where you might want to get back to the information without having to use the index or table of contents. Variety of colors. Instant indexing. I have my html books all flagged up so I can get to frequently used pages fast. www.3m.com/us/office/postit/products_flags.jhtml
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