Ever since I started teaching special day classes in 1996 I have lobbied for a meatier curriculum with goals aligned to general education standards. My program is designed like this and has been very successful. We have seen consistent progress from motivated and happy students. Hearing “water down – wrong – water up” in class the first time we met was reassuring. I need support. It gets lonely out there on the front line when life skills are overemphasized at the expense of everything else.
CAST's eReader software, used to help a student complete a reading assignment using spoken voice and synchronized highlighting features as the student tracks words on a page, would be useful for at least one of my students. I would like to know how to get my student started using this.
CAST UDL Book Builder would also be nice. I was advised to use Firefox instead of Safari for this feature, which was easy for me to do.
Don Johnston's Write:OutLoud software, used to engage students in the task of writing by using auditory feedback would also be beneficial for some of my students. I would like to find out more about this too.
eTrekker's interface, a search engine environment free of distracting advertisements and extraneous information, might be handy for some of my students. We Google items of interest often in my classroom. It would be great to learn more about eTrekker.
Tappedin.org mentioned file sharing. Maybe this website will enable me to share with other educators some PowerPoint Shows I created to teach math concepts.
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Hi,
Welcome to class. Life in the Gulag is never fun. You are not alone anymore. Enriching the curriculum and layering with technological tools to engage the learner is generally successful.
Sharon
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