Assistive Technology
Instruction
The
Components
The Classes
Headsprout
Headsprout Samples
Headsprout is
an early reading software program that helps students master
basic skills
such as phonemic awareness, print
awareness, phonics, sounding out, segmenting and blending.
Teachers use Headsprout to supplement their reading curriculum
and keep track of their students' progress. All lessons are
internet based and can be accessed from both home and school.
SchoolKit
SchoolKit's subscription module EDclass provides hundreds of
classroom-ready online learning modules that are designed to
meet technology standards for students. EDclass activities are
presented as small, interactive electronic books - called
activBooks - that open on students' and teachers' computers to
guide them through curriculum-based lessons. ActivBooks contain
interactive elements and learning resources for grades 2 - 10.
Digital Video
Editing in the Classroom using the Casablanca Prestige
The use of digital video projects in the classroom has become an
effective method to integrate core curriculum, engage the
learner, foster collaboration and to put a powerful
communication medium into the hands of students. Help your
students use digital still and video footage along with good
instructional design practices to make visually powerful
learning moments.
Specific Software Titles
Titles will become available on an as needed basis
WebQuests
Sample WebQuest
A
WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of
the information used by learners is drawn from the Web.
WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on
using information rather than looking for it, and to support
learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and
evaluation. Webquests can be built by teachers for students in
all grade levels. Webquests are centered around essential or
guiding questions while students investigate a topic using a
specific process. The process includes the Introduction, the
Task, the Process, the Evaluation and the Conclusion. WebQuests
are the perfect way to integrate curriculum.
Office 2003 in the Content
Areas
Office in the
K- 3 Classroom
Prerequisite: A
basic mastery of Microsoft Office
This class will
help teachers more fully utilize the Microsoft Office suite:
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher, in the classroom. Class
objectives will focus on integrating these powerful productivity
tools in the content areas of language arts, mathematics,
science, and social studies. Teachers will be exposed to, and
have an opportunity to develop, documents and publications that
are directly applicable to classroom units and lessons for
grades K-3. Teachers are encouraged to sign up in grade level
teams.
Office in the
4- 6 Classroom
Prerequisite: A
basic mastery of Microsoft Office
This class will
help teachers more fully utilize the Microsoft Office suite:
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher, in the classroom. Class
objectives will focus on integrating these powerful productivity
tools in the content areas of language arts, mathematics,
science, and social studies. Teachers will be exposed to, and
have an opportunity to develop, documents and publications that
are directly applicable to classroom units and lessons for
grades 4-6. Teachers are encouraged to sign up in grade level
teams.
Office in the
Secondary Mathematics Classroom Grades 7-12
Prerequisite: A
basic mastery of Microsoft Office
This class will
help teachers more fully utilize the Microsoft Office suite
(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher) in the classroom. Class
objectives will focus on integrating these powerful productivity
tools in the secondary Mathematics Curriculum. Teachers will be
able to develop technology integrated lessons involving graphing
and interpreting data, budgets and surveys, calculations
involving percent and ratios, patterns and probability,
geometric shapes, flow charts, stock market evaluations,
conversions, journaling techniques, and PowerPoint
presentations.
Office in the
Secondary Science Classroom Grades 7-12
Prerequisite: A
basic mastery of Microsoft Office
This class will
help teachers more fully utilize the Microsoft Office suite
(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher) in the classroom. Class
objectives will focus on integrating these powerful productivity
tools in the secondary Science Curriculum. Teachers will be
able to develop technology integrated lessons involving
strategies for graphing and interpreting data in coordination
with LoggerPro data or manual entering of data in Excel,
labeling digital diagrams, building tables or charts, embedding
and hyperlinking lab report documents, journaling techniques,
and PowerPoint presentations.
Microsoft
Office for Secondary LA/SS Teachers
Prerequisite:
The ability to use the programs in Microsoft Office (See
Foundations)
This class will
help teachers more fully utilize the Microsoft Office Suite in
English. Microsoft Office is much more than creating newsletters
and watching cookie-cutter PowerPoint shows. Word, PowerPoint,
Publisher, and Producer are applications that can add depth and
richness to your classroom when you integrate them into your
content. Word can be used to writing from draft to published
quality through change tracking and editing marks. Producer can
be used to create high quality video and then added to
PowerPoint or as stand-alone, students and teachers can use
Publisher to produce professional quality documents, schedules,
brochures and calendars. Many teachers have used Word to place
assignments, study guides, and resources on the internet.
Assistive Technology -
(For Special Services Teachers)
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Elementary
Workstations
include the following software:
Co:Writer
– a word prediction and completion program that adds grammar
and vocabulary support to any word processor. It includes
auditory feedback and the option to have listed words spoken.
Its flexible spelling recognizes phonetically spelled words and
topic dictionaries allow specialized vocabulary to be
predicted. This software improves spelling accuracy for written
work, reduces keystrokes for the student with motor difficulties
and allows a student to focus on the content, rather than the
spelling, for written assignments.
Intellitalk
II
– a talking word processor with a full range of text and speech
options, and the authoring ability to create writing activities
and quizzes. In addition to speech and text, you can add
pictures to documents to support beginning readers. This
software allows students to “hear” what they read and write,
allowing them to access class content.
Inspiration
- a concept mapping tool with integrated outlining and
diagramming features to help students develop ideas and organize
thinking.
Secondary Work
stations include the following software:
Co:Writer
– a word prediction and completion program that adds grammar
and vocabulary support to any word processor. It includes
auditory feedback and the option to have listed words spoken.
Its flexible spelling recognizes phonetically spelled words and
topic dictionaries allow specialized vocabulary to be
predicted. This software improves spelling accuracy for written
work, reduces keystrokes for the student with motor difficulties
and allows a student to focus on the content, rather than the
spelling, for written assignments.
Write:Outloud
- An easy-to-use word processor that provides speech feedback
as students type words. It cues misspellings as students write
and includes graphics to illustrate compositions. This software
reads and highlights text, functioning as both an authoring
tool, as well as text to speech software.
Inspiration
- a concept mapping tool with integrated outlining and
diagramming features to help students develop ideas and organize
thinking.
Dragon
Naturally Speaking Preferred
– A voice dictation program for word-processing that turns
speech into text using any windows-based application. This
software allows students with motor or written expression delays
produce written work at a level commensurate with their oral
expression skills.
Software for visual supports:
Boardmaker, from Mayer-Johnson, is a graphics database
containing over 3,000 Picture Communication Symbols in bitmapped
clip art form allowing teachers to create materials for a PEC
program, picture schedules and communication boards, one symbol
at a time.
Writing With Symbols, using the same graphic database as
Boardmaker, is a
word/picture
processing program that has the pictures pop in, as you quickly
type the words, making it easy to create picture schedules,
communication boards, social stories and books for students that
are not yet reading text. It has the additional feature of
functioning as authoring software, allowing students to write
with pictures.
PowerPoint:
PowerPoint
is a versatile program that can be used in a variety of
ways beyond just presentations, in the classroom. By importing
text, sounds, pictures and video clips into its slide show
format, it can be used to introduce or reinforce new material,
teach routines, create schedules, social stories and even
talking books for emerging learners or switch-dependent students.
