Case Studies

Book Creator is an amazing app.  It can be used for so many things for all grade levels.  One of the Case Studies used Book Creator to focus on a Grade Primary reading.  The student had pictures of their monthly reading and site words.  Th student read the stories and recorded their own voice.  Students enjoy this activity and it is a good feedback tool.

Writing Support
Writing process for students in Grade 2/3.  ELT support.
Cowriter, Book Creator, Clicker sentences were the main apps used for the case study.  The iPad is a tool used to motivate the students to write.  Co-writer provided immediate feedback and a chance to fix the errors when a word did not sound right.  The students were excited to have word predictions.
Hideout phonic(fun way to learn short vowels)s, Phonics genius (vowel combinations), Fun rhyming (supports spelling) these were quick 5 minutes activities they used at the end of the writing and reading activity.

The fab four of reluctant writers due to challenges in fine motor, executive function, memory retention ,word attack/spelling/phonological awareness.  Co-writer and word prediction software would be excellent for the fab four.
Co-writer increased the number of sentences, sequence, readability and motivation in the students.

 

How to help High School students with LD.  Well, we can use iPads but are the students using them properly?  We need to train how to use the iPad,  what do you use for your DA.

Training for the kids is very important.  What is proper etiquette?

This is a great website that talks about  iPad use.

Pages is used to aid in spelling and written output.  Claro pdf and Readiris

Claro pdf is an app I wan to use with my Junior High students.  I have to make sure that the students have it an it app on their iPad.  ClaroPDF light is free and only 1.99 for the full version.

Here is a little video to help use ClaroPDF.

 LEARN TO READ LIBRARY That a peak.  This is a 9.99 app that students love!

Touch Write

LiveScribe

Talk Typer

Free speech to text dictation software in a browser.

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

As you can see from the presentations their are applications and tools that are good go to resources.  Book Creator, CoWriter and of course the iPad are the most popular.  It was interesting listening to the presentations and relating the information to the articles that we read earlier in the course.  The talk of the iPad - Breaking New Ground in Special Education is so true.  The iPad allows us to use Universal Design for Learning in our teaching environment because the iPad is becoming the tool that can"customize" student's learning.  The article states there is a revolution going on in special education but I feel they were the first to figure out what a great tool the iPad can be for students and teachers.  The SSRSB is implementing the TELP program which will make UDL more of a reality in our classrooms.  "The Shift in Assistive Technology" is absolutely wonderful for those students and teacher that need the organization. I know as a teacher, that teachers in 3 different learning environments, the iPad is a tool that I use to keep organized and prepared.  The idea of TELP will take away the "negative stigmatism that is attached to students that use the tool for assistance."  Now every student will have an iPad in their hands and the Universal Design for Learning will be at the students finger tips.  Thanks for a great course!

iTunes U

Book Creator is an excellent tool to use to create social stories for students or to get the students to create their own book.  Elaine showed a great example of a publication on "My zones" in book creator.  Another great aspect of book creator is that you can publish the book to ibooks.
Readirus
Take a picture of the assignment and open it up in readirus. Readirus
Convert any paper document, image or PDF into editable and searchable digital files.

Claro PDF Motivation is low and the engagement has increased.






We need to understand what is involved in the writing process.  This will help us understand where the gaps are with our students.
Inclusion of students
Curriculum is accessible to all students when you are designing your lessons.

Clicker Sentences;
Great for early learners.  This is a written output for emergent literacy learners.
We are developing reading and writing output. It will read aloud and will give the student a model sentence.  Therefore, the student can listen to the sentence to hear if the sentence is correct.
The top right hand corner is were you can develop the model sentences.  You can place the words in sentence order, random or guided order (error less writing).
You can email of print the document from the app.  Int he email section you can attach clicker document, attach text as file or paste text into email.
Learning Grids is specific for teachers.  It is located in learninggrids.com and it has sentences created based on subjects. 
The folder on the left hand side you can make a sentence set by adding.  Tap on the sentence set and you can develop the sentences.
ClickerDocs
Students use the range of writing support tools available to create written work.

Students that are no verbal you can use Proloquo2go. This app is very portable and easy to use. This is for augmentative communication and written output.
With Prologuo2go you can now imessage, text and email.  This is an excellent addition for the program.  Students who are non verbal will be able to use this to communicate.

Symbol Support
This is an app that adds symbols and speech to text.  This would be great for social stories, step by step instruction, schedule planner.  You can open the document up in system support viewer.

Garage band
This could be used as a voice recording system.  They can be email, airdrop and and send to itunes, facebook, SoundCloud and Youtube.

BookCreator
Book Creator can be another option for students to demonstrate their knowledge.  You can take the pictures and video within the app.  You can do text to speech within book creator which is very beneficial to students that have difficulty writing.  You can email it to yourself and use it in iTunesU course manager which will open up in iBooks.
Add photos, videos, and you can draw pictures.
You can copy and paste a text and it will apply the images.

iBooks textbooks (Enhanced textbook)
Videos are close captions
ibooks are interactive
Voice over for students who are blind.
Definition option within the text and the web search option
Text to speech
Any sections that you highlight are exported and study cards can be used.
These can be emailed as well.
Information is always current with the updates

iReadWrite
This is a good App for homonyms such as their, there, and they're.

Pages is our go to word processing app.  this is good for developing content.  You have options such as newsletters.  Cowriter export into Pages.
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Keynote
Great for LD and autistic students.  Pages are listed on the side and is not very clustery.

 

Explain Everything is excellent for Math classes.  You can get students to create lessons to show their understanding.  I would like to use this as an assessment tool in my Physical Education class.  Other ideas for this app is to use it as a teaching tool for a substitute in my French class or a how to video for a skill.

 

UDL guideline examples
Visual

iTunesU
Here is a great tutorial on how to create a class.