CLASS THIS WEEK

AGENDA FOR NEXT CLASS

2. 30 minutes: Revisit syllabus and consider where we are headed. Take a look at what is going on in Blogger-land. Amnesty on Blackboard issues & the like

I am what I learn

Virtual Debating

Online Professional Development

Action Research

Social Justice

On the topic of good blogs

Survey-rama

NICHY – National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities http://www.nichcy.org/Pages/Home.aspx

IRIS Center - http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/resources.html

ATIA Triumph Stories http://www.atia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3403

** Great place to start - WNY resource to get AT in your own class - http://atto.buffalo.edu/

Journal of Special Education Technology http://www.tamcec.org/jset/

Center for Implementing Technology in Education http://www.cited.org/index.aspx

CAST – Center for Applied Special Technology http://www.cast.org/

CEC - Council for Exceptional Children http://www.cec.sped.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

Technology and Media Division http://www.tamcec.org/

DAISY - http://www.daisy.org/

American Association of the Blind http://www.afb.org/

National Institute for the Deaf http://www.ntid.rit.edu/

tool: Sign language browser http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/

Autism Spectrum http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer

Specific Learning Disability http://www.ldonline.org/

Speech and Language Impairment http://www.naset.org/speechandlanguage2.0.html

Occupational Therapy http://www.aota.org/Consumers/WhatisOT/CY/Articles/School_consumer.aspx

Handwriting without Tears http://www.hwtears.com/parents/parentextras

Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/tech-integration

Iris Center http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/resources.html

TeacherTube (http://www.teachertube.com/)

CLASSROOM 2.0 http://www.classroom20.com/

EDUCATION http://education.ning.com/

Language Learners (good overview of Web 1.0/2.0 and the future!) http://education.ning.com/video/1027485:Video:36368

Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/site/features

http://etherpad.com/

http://pixton.com/

http://www.toondoo.com/

3. 45 minutes: Online Literacy activity

4. 15 minutes: Do we teach it, or not? Do we use it, or not? How do we perceive assistive technology - what is our framework? How can we better consider the framework of our students?

5. Group work

• Problem Based Learning - The SO WHAT factor

• What are essential features of a website that is designed to engage students? How can we create one that is geared toward preparing High School students to consider a theatrical performance?