Final Blog!!

Wow! I can hardly believe that this is my last blog entry for this course.

It has been awesome "digging in" and learning about assistive technology! I really enjoyed the opportunity to work together with others! What great learning experiences!

Today’s class was done through Elluminate Live and was yet again another example of the wonders of technology!

It was great to see everyone’s Blog on ”Writing” and all the interesting ideas and presentations. Stephanie and I started out by presenting our blog. Thank you for all the great comments, everyone. It truly was a great learning experience doing this blog as a group and learning together and then sharing our ideas with our classmates. Stephanie and Mark were great partners!!

I’ll comment briefly on the other’s blog presentations. They were all great and obviously hours of work went into each one.

I loved Julie and Krista’s  gadget for translating into various languages!! Also their video on Autism is wonderful.

I thought that Janna, Maggie and Joelle’s video on Myths of assistive Technology was a great way to start the blog.  I also loved the SongWriting software app, great idea for those students who are into music and there seems to be lots!

I’m sure everyone loved Catherine, Shelly and Paul’s Xtranormal Introduction!! Excellent display of creativity and so many students will love and benefit from this movie making site.

Barb’s blog was great and she worked alone…brave!! J The animated girl video was wonderful for  and I thought the Learning Disabilities video at the beginning of her blog was awesome! I loved it for younger students. I work in a Kindergarten to grade 3 school and plan to use this for sure!! Loved the little girl’s voice and how it relates to younger students!

The video on the brain in Elizabeth’s and  Darlene’s was so informative. I learned lots and what know that parents, teachers, students and others will benefit also.

Helen’s blog contained lots of great lists and wonderful websites!!

Great work everyone and thanks for sharing.

Overall, doing this course was a wonderful learning experience.  I experienced technical difficulties but worked through all of them!!  Definitely felt stressed when the hard drive crashed in my computer on the third day of classes but solved that problem too! Tech guys at Acadia were great and retrieved all my “stuff” and transferred it over to my new computer.

Thanks Barbara for creating great learning for us!! Have a fabulous summer!!