The iPad as RTI Intervention Toolkit While waiting for the iPad to arrive in my reading intervention classroom, I’ve had a lot of time to think and plan how I will use the device. Ground Rules I don’t want hundreds of apps. I don’t want more drill and kill. I want the iPad to help me run my intervention program like a gifted enrichment program, providing the spark that interests students in learning and helps them apply skills that they should not be learning in isolation. My Favorites and How I Will Use Them Dragon Dictation While the iPhone 4S eliminates the need for Dragon Dictation because it integrates dictation whenever the keyboard appears, the iPad becomes magical with the addition of the free Dragon Dictation app. This is of great use for students for whom the process of writing or typing is too much of a chore to allow for the creative expression of their ideas and those whose spelling gets in the way of their completing sentences. iMovie Students can create movies about anything. Pages Storykit Dropbox Need more Apps?
Prizmo: Scanning & OCR app for iPhone — About Watch Prizmo Video Trailer > Optimized for latest iOS. Prizmo 4 supports iOS latest features like Handoff, Extensions, and access to Documents (input / output). Prizmo 4 supports Handoff and lets you seamlessly continue editing from one device to another. It currently works on iPhone and iPad, and it's coming soon to your Mac too! Prizmo also offers a variety of extensions: Crop and Cleanup, Capture Text, and Read Text. Finally, Prizmo 4 adds support for Documents: you can import images or export results to any cloud file systems installed on your iPhone or iPad (including iCloud Drive). Universal Scanning Experience. Want to scan text documents, process business cards or images using your iPhone or iPad? Take a picture, choose the document type, and use the powerful image cleaning and enhancement features (like cropping and perspective correction, text readability...) to improve the picture. Last but not least, you can interact with the OCR engine like never before. iCloud.
Using UDL to Support a Diverse Classroom - nhinstitutes Introduction If you look at the makeup of most any classroom you will find students with different talents, learning styles, interests, and levels of engagement. As educators it's our job to provide lessons that meet the needs of all our students. Universal Design for Learning or UDL can make this task less daunting and create learning activities that all students can benefit from. Read on to explore how UDL can support a diverse classroom. Please note: If you are new to UDL, please check out the Introduction to Universal Design for Learning Institute, UDL - What is it and How Does it Work? Getting Started Let's start by reviewing what Universal Design for Learning is. Click here to read about the UDL Curriculum on the National Center for UDL website. Click here to learn about UDL and Expert Learners. There are links to additional information that you can check out as well. You can learn about the UDL Guidelines and the three principles in this video from the National Center on UDL.
Learning and Teaching with iPads iPhone | DocScanner Take a picture of a document with iPhone’s camera, email it as PDF. DocScanner has got industry leading (link to a benchmark test) image processing algorithms which automatically turn the picture to look like you have scanned the document with a flatbed scanner. Document gets automatically recognized within the view finder in real time. Using custom algorithms DocScanner takes most of the iPhone’s camera and corrects perspective, whiteness, noise and other parts of the image to produce beautiful and clear scans. Use DocScanner to capture whiteboards and receipts, digitize your Moleskine notebook to a PDF-file or Evernote. DocScanner is not limited to paper documents only. Search text within your document library. DocScanner has an internal OCR-function that recognizes text and turns the documents you have captured with the camera to searchable text. Use Evernote as your second brain. Drop your documents to your Dropbox. WebDAV and Google Drive.
50 Useful Apps For Students With Reading Disabilities Whether you’re the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you’re undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability. While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike. Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle. Helpful Tools These tools are useful for both educators and students with reading disabilities alike, aiding in everything from looking up a correct spelling to reading text out loud. Speak It! Fundamentals Reading Writing Spelling
iPaddiction iPhone/iPad Apps for AAC Home Support Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) Looking for the Apps for AAC list by Jane Farrall? It is now hosted on the Jane Farrall Consulting website What is AAC? AAC stands for Augmentative and Alternative Communication and it relates to all the tools and strategies that we use with people who have little or no speech. AAC tools can be low-tech options, such as symbol boards and communication books, as well as no-tech options such as Key Word Signing. With so many AAC apps available through the App Store, the Spectronics Consultancy Team would like to provide you with some tips and tools to help you find the right app. Top tips for successful AAC implementation: Choosing the right AAC app When considering AAC apps, you may want to consider: For more information and tools to help you match the right features for AAC apps, check out this blogpost App feature matching: an essential step. Spectronics APPraised AAC Apps Proloquo2Go Top 5 Features: Website links: Touch Chat Sonoflex TapSpeak Sequence
iOS Apps List for Middle/High School & Adults with Learning Disabilities iOS Apps List for Middle/High School & Adults with Learning Disabilities Looking for iOS apps for adults or middle school through post secondary students with learning disabilities? Check out this app list out. Create with middle/high, post secondary students and adults in mind, this list includes basic apps to support individuals with learning disabilities. Lists like these are always a work in progress – check back for revisions! Here is a downloadable PDF of the OTs w Apps Basic App list for LD 7-28-2012. More for your OT iTool Kit if you work with adolescents and adults with learning disabilities. Carol Like this: Like Loading... About Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, AdEd, OTR/L, ATP OTR/L with 30 years experience in pediatrics, school based therapy and adult rehabilitation.
Educreations: DIY Whiteboard Video Tutorials on the iPad The new app from Educreations is available in the Apple App Store today (iTunes link). The app is designed to make it easy to create, narrate, and record whiteboard video tutorials on the iPad and to share them with others. A Web version of the startup's whiteboard app has been available for some time now, but it's the native app for an iPad that makes this sort of tool make sense -- it's so much easier to write on a whiteboard with the finger than it is with a mouse, if nothing else. Educreations hosts the video creations themselves on educreations.com (helpful for schools that block YouTube), and teachers using the site can opt to share videos privately with a set group of students or share them publicly so anyone can see them.
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