Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Mar 7th, 2005 No Comments »
Apple has documented an installation of iBooks at the Texas School for the Deaf: iBook Laptops Support Visual Learners. Much of this article is meaningful to students with learning disabilities in K-12 or college.
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Mar 4th, 2005 No Comments »
WIRED magazine has a great article on the history of and how Wikipedia, the open source, online encyclopedia project works: The Book Stops Here. What’s interesting about the article is that like many online communities, Wikipedia has a culture and an evolving set of social rules, bad guys who break rules and various levels of [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Feb 20th, 2005 2 Comments »
© 2004 Leonard V. Pisano, Ph.D. lvponline@aol.com This article will review different types of supports and instructional interventions, from no tech to high tech, that can accommodate a student with varying degrees of academic difficulties that negatively impact on classroom functioning. The areas addressed will be writing and reading, which are major skills underlying successful [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Feb 13th, 2005 No Comments »
You There, at the Computer: Pay Attention is an interesting look by Katie Hafner at the New York Times at how, as the number of things we use our computers for in a fully connected world increases, our ability to go deeply into one thing diminishes. One might call this “micro-attention deficit disorder” (ADD in [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Feb 9th, 2005 12 Comments »
Richard Wanderman RSS = Really Simple Syndication. Right… that doesn’t help much so this article will go into a bit more detail about what RSS is and why it might be useful to you. Background To most people, a web browser is the internet. Email through Outlook and the web through IE. What else might [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Feb 8th, 2005 No Comments »
Salon has a great article on the use of keywords (tagging) to make finding things and collecting things into groups interesting and easier: Steal this bookmark! Like the old meta tags that many websites put in their index files so that search-bots would pick them up and index them with those keywords (adding the word [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Feb 7th, 2005 No Comments »
podSites is a site about using the “notes” feature of iPods to collect, build and maintain collections of information called “podSites.” Wow, this is most interesting. I use the Notes feature of my iPod to hold my joke collection and other text I want to remember away from home but this is a way to [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Jan 28th, 2005 2 Comments »
© Richard Wanderman The biggest problem with technology that is classified as “assistive” rather than just everyday technology that anyone uses is the branding/labeling/stereotyping that can take place. I’d have to say that this is the single biggest reason that certain tools don’t get used enough in inclusive classrooms. The social stigma of being different [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Nov 27th, 2004 5 Comments »
© Ken Elkind ken@kurzweiledu.com Ken Elkind is Project Manager for Kurzweil 3000 software. A severe head injury as a child left me struggling to speak, read or write. While this accident changed my life in so many ways, I feel grateful for innovations in assistive technology that have helped me lead a meaningful and productive [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Nov 27th, 2004 No Comments »
© Jim Slater jimslater@nextstep.net Late in 1994, it became obvious that my reliable Macintosh SE was suffering from inadequate capacity, and it’s truly productive days were over. Next stop; doorstop. My funds were limited, but my need was immediate. I called a well-connected friend, who made some phone calls of his own. Several days later, [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Nov 12th, 2004 9 Comments »
© Yishay Garbasz pyp96yg@sheffield.ac.uk A few years ago, when I exchanged pen and paper with a monitor and a keyboard I went through a change that was more than the significant but obvious advance in technology. I changed something very basic in my dyslexia, or rather in my dyslexic existence. Of course the first noticeable [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Jul 8th, 2004 No Comments »
© 1989 Paul Kaiser paul@kaiserworks.com So many factors conspire against children using computers to dream or reflect at any meaningful depth that it is tempting to make the case for keeping children well away from this technology. But while most children’s software pales by comparison with crayons, puppets, and miniature figures, the computer holds tremendous [...]