I-tunesu Course Management Project

       Today, in class, we reviewed some more web apps, such as Read Iris, and Claro.  These apps go very well together.  Read Iris allows you to take a picture of text, while Claro allows for you to change the text to speech, so that it will read to you. Then we looked at the Settings for the I-pad, under General Settings---Accessibility. This is where you can opt to enlarge the do voiceover, which allows students to select text to have it read to them. It allows the zoom option for students who have trouble to see, or process small writing. It can have large text and bold text. I like the option that you have to control what students have access to.  It is called Guided Access.  It is essentially a parental control, to restrict access to unwanted websites, from students, so that they can use the I-pad independently. The I-pad offers subtitles and Captioning for the deaf.
         One of the apps that we looked at today, allows us to cut out part of the screen to help keep the students from leaving an app.  Some Autistic students obsess over a particular website, and may try not to stay on the assigned site. This helps to eliminate that option.
          We began our I-tunesu course Management Project. I wrote about the complexity of the Reading Process.  I feel like I am becoming quite familiar with the topic, and yet I still don't think that I have all of the steps memorized yet.  I will have to look for some good images or videos to go with my account.
            We began inputting some of the web apps that would help to remediate or compensate for various learning disabilities that affect students, particularly in the area of reading.  I did this for homework, and it was very fun. I found a web page, by a technology expert in the Halifax Regional School Board, and she had a set of apps, divided into the categories of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.

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