EDT+676

**Assignment #1 ** : 5 sites
 * //EDT 676 Using Ipods in the Classroom// **

[|Special Ed. Resources] List of iTouch resources for special education.

[|Education Apps]  Education apps that are sorted by category, popularity, release date and more.

[|Reading Resources]  Apps that are used for reading resources.

[|Typing tips]  Tips for quicker typing on your iPhone or iTouch.

[|Dragon Dictation]  Answers most of the questions you have about Dragon Naturally Speaking for the iPhone or iTouch and provides additional information about assistive technology for apple users including the iTouch, iPhone or iPad.

[|Teaching heart] This site gives many ideas for using ipods in the early childhood or early elementary classroom. It also has multiple links to other sites for more information about using iPods in education.

Educational: [|Living life to its fullest] I don't have a classroom so I subscribed to a podcast that would help me to stay up to date on Occupational Therapy topics.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Assignment #2 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">: podcasts

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Personal <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: [|Teens and Tweens] Information about the brains of teens and tweens

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Educational: <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Dragon Dictation] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> This is an easy to use voice recognition application that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. Needs wireless internet. <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|ABC Tracer and words] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Teaches how to form letters, numbers and words by tracing over dotted models and it turns green for correct, red if it is incorrect. <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Proloquo2go] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> A full featured augmentative communication solution for people that have difficulty speaking. It is revolutionizing assistive tech for speech. <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Speak it] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> great text to speech app that is only $1.99 <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|All Sunsets jigsaw] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Interactive jigsaw puzzles of sunsets all around the world.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Assignment #3 **: apps

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Personal <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Betty Crocker cookbook] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Mobile cookbook that works off-line <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Documents to go] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Create and edit Microsoft Office documents <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Simple Mind Xpress] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Mind mapping for organization and brainstorming <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|ESPN Sportscenter] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> sports scores for my family <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Sudoku 2] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> free sudoku game

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Assignment #4 Podcasts This is a consultation with a teacher: media type="file" key="teacher consult.m4a" width="300" height="50" This is a second grader reading his story: media type="file" key="Matthew's story.m4a" width="300" height="50"

Assignment #5 Reflection <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am excited to finally own my own iTouch. I am enjoying using it mainly for entertainment. I find that I can spend quite a bit of time (and money if I wanted to) on iTunes or on sites that rate the apps. My children are also enjoying using the iTouch and like to mainly play games on it. While I am satisfied with the “free” or “lite” versions, they are quickly bored and want the “paid” version. I sometimes get frustrated with the lack of wireless internet needed in order to use some of the apps. I am hoping to expand my use of it but I do find I need to develop new habits to incorporate it (I really am a digital immigrant!) As an OT, I do struggle a little trying to figure out how to best incorporate the use of the iPod with students. Since we are not with the students all the time or even at the same school, I see our role more as a consultant acting to keep the teachers informed of the benefits and uses of them. All of the autism classrooms have iTouches and the skills and interest level varies greatly among the teachers and staff. I enjoy working with others to help them best utilize the available technology.

**Assignment #6 You tube video**

media type="youtube" key="VTSM0m6aT9M" height="405" width="500" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> There is a site called Bookshare that is available to any person that is visually impaired, physically impaired or have learning difficulties. **Bookshare**® **is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities.** Student memberships are currently funded by an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Bookshare offers more than 70,000 digital books, textbooks, teacher-recommended reading, periodicals and assistive technology tools. Bookshare also offers a free download of text to speech software that helps those students that benefit from listening along with reading. These files are downloaded into a daisy file which then can then be converted to a file that can be converted to a file for the ipod.
 * Assignment #7 Audio Books [|Bookshare]**

**Assigment #8 Itunes U**

[|Technology tips for the classroom] A movie about using design and technology in the primary classroom.