Sites for Autistic Support Teachers! Sites for Autistic Support Teachers www.cindysautisticsupport.com If you have found this website helpful and would like to donate to help with the monthly fee of the server, please click the button below. Thank you! I LOVE Model Me Kids videos and so do my students! Indiana Resource Center for Autism LOTS of visual supports! Educate Autism Educate Autism is a website dedicated to helping those working with children with autism by providing free teaching materials, various tutorials to help you make your own teaching aids and articles to provide information about teaching methods and behavioural principles. Special thanks to Gavin Cosgrave for sharing this site. DoToLearn Forms Organizational tools, including problem solving, literacy tools, teacher forms, classroom tools and more! Picto Selector A free visual support program you can download. Special thanks to Martijn van der Kooij from The Netherlands for sending this site. PracticalAutismResources.com Lots of ideas & printable materials. All All
Downloads - Productivity Tools - Cerebro calming the senses with weighted blankets « Craft Nectar Note from Weeks: Both my husband and daughter are restless sorts. When our daughter was little and we went to a restaurant, Bill would take her out to run up and down the sidewalk while I paid the bill so she wouldn’t start squirming at the table. Those kids who kick the back of your seat on planes have the same issue. Therapists refer to them as “sensory seeking.” One therapist explained to me that the way I would feel if I sat in a car for ten hours straight is how she feels after sitting for one hour. Bill has talked for years about finding a way to create a heavy blanket that would calm his and our daughter’s restless muscles. Like me, our daughter is frequently restless and, at the end of the day, often asks for a heavy quilt on her legs or for a deep-muscle massage. Little did I know that weighted blankets and vests are in widespread use as therapeutic devices for children and adults with sensory conditions including ADD and autism. Like this: Like Loading...
Blog « Dr. Diane Hamilton There is no question that the blogosphere is growing. According to webdesignerdepot “WordPress has statistics for both WordPress.com (15.1 million blogs and counting) and self-hosted WordPress installations (17.4 million active installations), which gives part of the picture. There are more than 10 million tumblogs on Tumblr. Blogger doesn’t offer any public statistics on how many blogs they host. Technorati is currently tracking more than 1.2 million blogs. There is no shortage of blog search engines to find blogs that contain information of interest. With all of this information out there, who has time to read it all? There has been speculation about when blogging popularity will die down. With technology constantly changing, people may find it difficult to keep up with it all. Ever wondered how many blogs are there on internet? Like this: Like Loading...
A new kind of publishing Best ways to acquire user data Once upon a time, bragging rights in the world of online advertising went to the sites and landing pages that got the most impressions. In the old advertising ecosystem, advertisers and publishers alike spent millions of dollars in driving impressions to their site -- statistics that were brandished via impressive Nielsen and ComScore graphs at the end of every month. Get connected. Well, that's changed. Currently Facebook has 500 million users, and recent reports indicate that they are on track to grow to a billion users in the near future. And publishers are not alone. In increasing numbers, advertisers are building online communities of people -- on email, Facebook, Twitter, or simply on brand community sites. The Wall Street Journal recently reported how retailer Lockers.com is engaging its user base of 16 million by providing users with editorial content, social networking, and games. Your site registration form. A Facebook plug-in. The Open ID plug-in. Google Yahoo! Next page >>
Could a New Name Fix a Company? Chris Russo had a healthy business. The only thing holding it back, he thought, was its name. Three years after its launch in 2006, Fantasy Sports Ventures's revenue was increasing 40 percent to 50 percent a year, a pace that surprised even Russo. Still, Russo was reluctant to tinker with a business that, for the most part, worked. When Russo launched Fantasy Sports Ventures, he brought with him a sizable Rolodex and six years of experience running the new-media division of the National Football League, where he oversaw the release of the league's fantasy football games. Almost from the start, though, FSV's name was a bit of a contradiction; its first acquisition was Hoopsworld, a basketball news site that Russo felt would appeal to fantasy basketball players. By last fall, Kamer and others were pushing for a name change, but Russo remained conflicted. The mood in the room was at times tense. Next, O'Hara began discussing the brand name. Will the rebranding make a difference?
Academic assignment meets health information organizer (The freshly-minted MBA) << Previous: The organized consultant Back to: Stories from Topicscape users >> Bryan is a senior manager who recently qualified as an MBA. During the course, he was given a very tough assignment - to analyze the business opportunities and related ethical considerations arising from cancer in society. Using 3D Topicscape, he researched and planned this major paper for submission to the professor supervising the Marketing segment. This shows the Topicscape at a late stage. His first step was to think the subject through -- using 3D Topicscape he built a concept map in 3D (similar to a mind map) of the topics related to the needs of cancer sufferers and their families. The paper is almost complete when he came across a new article on Hospice and Palliative Care. He makes that topic current by selecting the first item from the menu (though he could just click on the topic). The landscape is redrawn around "Cancer support and care". Or to the Info Center to dig down for more detail.
Don't Look Now, but Your Social Relationships Have Changed--Again You may not have thought about this, but your social relationships are changing on an almost daily basis. You have simultaneously more and less control over your human interactions, for better or for worse. Your relationships are increasingly determined by devices like phones, iPads, and computers. Just now, Facebook announced a new social inbox, combining text, chat, and email. Every day I download some new application to try, and they are almost all "social." 1) Media sharing has gone beyond Flickr and the elementary digital photo upload. This morning I downloaded Dave Morin's new iPhone app, Path, supposedly the antithesis of Facebook. 2) Smartphones are ubiquitous. 3) As phones grow smarter, phone calls are going away. 4) Customer relations management is giving way to vendor relations management. 5) Loneliness is supposedly a thing of the past. 6)And now the dark side. Social is a two way street.
The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge - Trade Paperback 1 Give Me a Lever Long Enough… And Single-Handed I Can Move The World From a very early age, we are taught to break apart problems, to fragment the world. This apparently makes complex tasks and subjects more manageable, but we pay a hidden, enormous price. The tools and ideas presented in this book are for destroying the illusion that the world is created of separate, unrelated forces. As the world becomes more interconnected and business becomes more complex and dynamic, work must become more “learningful.” Learning organizations are possible because, deep down, we are all learners. One could argue that the entire global business community is learning to learn together, becoming a learning community. There is also another, in some ways deeper, movement toward learning organizations, part of the evolution of industrial society. Moreover, many who share these values are now in leadership positions. Systems Thinking. Business and other human endeavors are also systems. Personal Mastery.
Eating, Thinking and Staying Active with New Media Women Entrepreneurs Festival 40 Essential Tools and Resources to Visualize Data One of the most frequent questions I get is, "What software do you use to visualize data?" A lot of people are excited to play with their data, but don't know how to go about doing it or even start. Here are the tools I use or have used and resources that I own or found helpful for data visualization – starting with organizing the data, to graphs and charts, and lastly, animation and interaction. Organizing the Data by sleepy sparrow Data are hardly ever in the format that you need them to be in. PHP was the first scripting language I learned that was well-suited for the Web, so I'm pretty comfortable with it. Python Most computer science types - at least the ones I've worked with - scoff at PHP and opt for Python mostly because Python code is often better structured (as a requirement) and has cooler server-side functions. MySQL When I have a lot of data - like on the magnitude of the tends to hundreds of thousands - I use PHP or Python to stick it in a MySQL database. Ah, good old R.