This is the presentation from the book study group that took place on 2/17/11.

1. The Practical and Fun Guide to
Assistive Technology i Public
A i ti T h l in P bli
Schools
Christopher R. Bugaj
Sally Norton-Darr
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2. Today’s Topics
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• Professional Development
• Conducting Consultations
C d ti C lt ti
• Making Recommendations
• Most Frequently Used Recommendations
KWL activity – write down at least ONE thing
about these topics (under the K and W only)
Share with your neighbors at your table
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3. Professional Development
• What is that calendar thing?
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4. Professional Development
• Activity (10-15 minutes) –
(10 15
– You’re a team. What do the educators in your
school district need to know to improve
student performance without making their jobs
more difficult?
• Create a list of professional development topics
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5. Common Themes/Topics
• Exposure to Low-Tech strategies
Low Tech strategies.
• Freeware, Shareware, what is already
available
• UDL –
• Using tools already available (MS Office,
Boardmaker, etc)
• AIM-Virginia & Bookshare.org (Accessible
Materials))
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6. Professional Development
1.
1 Vast majority of PD workshops are for
ALL Educators – This is good for all and
gets the team “out there (Publicity Baby!)
out there”
2. Plant yourself in specialized team
meetings and/or do workshops for
specialized groups (SLPs, Autism, ID, etc.)
NOTE: Whenever possible,
NOTE Wh ibl
include administrators.
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7. Let’s All Go to the Movies!
• DVDs
• Screen Capture Videos
–P tS
Prnt Scrn
– Jing
– www.screenjelly.com
• Video on the Internet
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8. Multi-Modal PD
• Face to Face
• Calendar
• DVDs
• Podcast on CD
• Website
– (http://lcps.org/at)
• Online Learning & Communities (ex Moodle)
(ex.
• Google Docs as follow-up
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9. Poor Man’s Active Vote
(You asked for it in your KWL responses)
• Uh – oh we don’t have
oh, don t
time to show you all of
these. So,
these So which do you
want to see? Let’s vote!
• Let’s make a “poor man’s”
Let s poor man s
active vote.
Follow Sally’s instructions
to make one
one.
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10. The Great Eight
(Links to resources at the end of this presentation)
1. High-Contrast in Word
2. PhotoAlbum Feature of PowerPoint
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(Show Google Docs here too)
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3. Visual Schedules (Linear and Amorphous)
4.
4 Text to Speech
5. Social “Situation” Stories
6. Sound Record Feature of MS Word*
7. Graphic Organizers (paper, software, Internet)
8. Pacing Boards (Communication strategy)
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11. Consultations
• Once upon a time…
We used to only do evaluations
• CONTACT US WITH ANY QUESTIONS
• WE are your colleagues (who don’t
necessarily work in y
y your building)
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» Is this RTI, Child Study (Is funding going into RTI?
What is the relationship between RTI and AT?)
» How can the AT Team support ALL Students (even if
not in special education)?
» AT/UDL funding options only Sp Ed?
http://bit.ly/atmontagevid
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12. Consultations: Outcomes/Follow-up
• Always have at least one
thing to t b f
thi t try before you leave
l
a consultation.
Recommendations can
ONLY be for what is
already available in the
educational environment.
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13. Consultations: Outcomes/Follow-up
• Follow-up with an e-mail
summarizing your meeting
– Good for your record keeping
– Chart this for justification
j
purposes
Evaluation as an outcome.
What if the student needs
more than what is already
available?
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14. Pick an envelope!
• Activity – Everyone gets a scenario (case
study). Get up and find your scenario in
the room
room.
• With the other people in your new group,
develop a list of recommendations for this
student (10-15 minutes)
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15. Let’s Share!
• Share your person and the
recommendations you came up with:
– Molly
– Alex
– Ms. Teacher
–HHoward (L t’ l k at
d (Let’s look t
your homework!)
(http://bit.ly/ttacatfun)
(htt //bit l /tt tf )
http://tinyurl.com/SLfunpractical
http://tinyurl com/SLfunpractical
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16. Homework!
• Go to Google Doc – http://bit.ly/ttacatfun
• Click on the “Math Resources” tab. Share
at least one tool/strategy
tool/strategy.
• Click on the “Communication” tab. Share
at least one tool/strategy.
tl t t l/ t t
Remember t put
R b to t
your initials after
your strategy
strategy.
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17. Next time…
• Conducting Individual Evaluations
• Conducting Classroom Evaluations
• Dissecting a R
Di ti Report
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• Summertime!
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18. High Contrast in Word
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• Tutorial – http://bit ly/highcontrasttutorial
http://bit.ly/highcontrasttutorial
• P d
Podcast – htt //bit l /53 di hi h
t http://bit.ly/53audiohighcontrast
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• Blog - http://bit.ly/episode53highcontrast
• Video - http://bit.ly/shiftaltprntscrn
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19. PhotoAlbum Feature of PowerPoint
• Tutorial - http://bit.ly/powerpointphotoalbum
• Podcast - http://bit.ly/ep39audiopowerpointphotoalbum
• Blog - http://bit.ly/ep39blogpowerpointphotoalbum
• Video - http://bit.ly/videopowerpointphotoalbum
• Implementation Ideas – http://bit.ly/attb102
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20. Visual Schedules
• Linear -
– Blog: http://bit.ly/ep17linearvisualschedules
– P d
Podcast: htt //bit l / 17li
t http://bit.ly/ep17linearvisualschedulesaudio
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• Amorphous –
– Blog: http://bit.ly/ep18amorphousvisualschedules
– Podcast: http://bit.ly/ep18amorphousvisualschedulesaudio
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21. Text-to-Speech
• www.readplease.com –
– Blog: http://bit.ly/readpleaseblog
– Podcast: http://bit.ly/ep6readpleaseaudio
– Video: http://bit.ly/readpleasevideo
• www.vozme.com -
– Bl
Blog: htt //bit l / 48
http://bit.ly/ep48vozme
– Podcast: http://bit.ly/ep48vozmeaudio
– Vid
Video: htt //bit l /
http://bit.ly/vozmevideo
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22. Social Situation Stories
• http://www.polyxo.com/socialstories
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• http://www.region2library.org/SocialStories.htm
• http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/strategies.html
• http://www.thewatsoninstitute.org/teacher-
resources2.jsp?pageId=2161392240601226415747290
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23. Sound Record in MS Word
• http://bit ly/recaudword
http://bit.ly/recaudword
• http://tinyurl.com/quickrecord
• Bl and podcast htt //bit l /
Blog d d t http://bit.ly/gzpIvv
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24. Graphic Organizers
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• http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
• http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm
• https://bubbl.us/
https://bubbl us/
• Blog and podcast: http://bit.ly/ifXSGJ
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25. Pacing Board
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• http://cmsweb1 loudoun k12 va us/509100
http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/509100
68152053/lib/50910068152053/Keeping%
20Pace%207MB.wmv
20Pace%207MB wmv
• http://attipscast.wordpress.com/tag/pacing
-board/
board/
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26. References
• Bugaj, C.R. & Norton-Darr, S. (2010). The practical and fun guide to
assistive technology in publics schools: building or improving your
district’s AT team. Washington, D.C.: International Society for
Technology in Education (ISTE).
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