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Websites

briandye — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:13:41 CDT

Starfall
Description from site: Teachers around the world use Starfall.com and Starfall high-quality educational products as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. Parents use Starfall to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.

iKnowthat.com
Description from site: Children learn best in a social environment. iKnowthat.com is built on the idea of socially reinforced learning. Features for saving and showing scores, documents, and other project artifacts encourage sharing and provide an easy way for family members and friends to become an active participant in a child's learning process.

Assistive Technology | T/TAC @ VT Home

briandye — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:57:49 CDT

Welcome to the Assistive Technology wiki for our T/TAC located at Virginia Tech.

Programs

briandye — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:52:07 CDT

Writing With Symbols
This powerful word/picture processing program allows you to type words with the option of having picture symbols appear with each word.

Pix Writer
Picture It software is versatile, flexible and user-friendly for teachers and parents who use it to create stories, recipes, letters and notes for students to learn through picture supported text. Picture It adapts by typing simple words. The software finds just the right graphic and imports it into any document through its Target Word feature. Color, borders, symbols and more can be added to enhance the experience and make it easier to customize.

Classroom Suite
Classroom Suite 4 is a unique intervention tool that combines direct instruction with a flexible tool environment to help students in grades Pre K through 5 achieve mastery in reading, writing and math.

Clicker 5
Clicker is a writing-support tool for any subject area. Build sentences by selecting words, phrases and pictures; hear words spoken by realistic software speech before you write; and hear completed sentences spoken back to you!

Start-to Finish books by Don Johnston
Start-to-Finish Library offers your struggling readers a wide selection of age-appropriate narrative chapter books written at two readability levels and delivered in three media formats. Students accomplish several goals with this unique series; they practice reading fluently and with comprehension using multiple text and electronic supports, while accessing the curriculum’s required topics, genres and literature. As a result, your readers will build volume!

Modeling Toolkit by 2Simple
Enables children to explore predictions and decision making with three differentiated levels.

Music Toolkit by 2Simple
Six programs that introduce key musical concepts in a fully interactive way!

2Calculate by 2Simple
As simple to use as a calculator, with the power of a spreadsheet! This program is packed with videos and activities for every age group.

Conferences

briandye — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:41:28 CDT

6th Annual Autism Spectrum Disorders Conference
SMART Use of Interactive Whiteboards in Inclusive Classrooms, Brian Dye, Coordinator of Assistive & Instructional Technology, T/TAC @ VT

Association of Collegiate Computing Services of Virginia 2009 Conference, Charlottesville, VA
The assistive (AT) and instructional (IT) technology features of the Apple iTouch: Ideas for administrators, Brian Dye, MA - Technology Coordinator, T/TAC @ VT and Frances Smith, Ed.D, CVE, Coordinator of Technology and Distance Learning, T/TAC at VCU

Virginia Department of Education's 2008 Technology Leadership Conference, Roanoke, VA
The assistive (AT) and instructional (IT) technology features of the Apple iTouch: Ideas for administrators, Brian Dye, MA - Technology Coordinator, T/TAC @ VT and Frances Smith, Ed.D, CVE, Coordinator of Technology and Distance Learning, T/TAC at VCU