ttac book study week 2

The Practical and Fun Guide to A i ti T h l i P bli Assistive Technology in Public

Schools

Christopher R. Bugaj

Free Powerpoint Templates Free Powerpoint TemplatesSally Norton-Darr

Today’s Topicsy• Professional Development

C d ti C lt ti• Conducting Consultations• Making Recommendations• Most Frequently Used Recommendations

KWL activity – write down at least ONE thing about these topics (under the K and W only)

Share with your neighbors at your table

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Professional Development• What is that calendar thing?


Professional Development

• Activity (10-15 minutes) –Activity (10 15 minutes) – You’re a team. What do the educators in your

school district need to know to improveschool district need to know to improve student performance without making their jobs more difficult?

• Create a list of professional development topics


Common Themes/Topics

• Exposure to Low-Tech strategiesExposure to Low Tech strategies.• Freeware, Shareware, what is already

availableavailable• UDL –• Using tools already available (MS Office,

Boardmaker, etc)• AIM-Virginia & Bookshare.org (Accessible

Materials) Free Powerpoint Templates

)• Switch use for Smartboard -

Professional Development

1 Vast majority of PD workshops are for1. Vast majority of PD workshops are for ALL Educators – This is good for all and gets the team “out there” (Publicity Baby!)gets the team out there (Publicity Baby!)

2. Plant yourself in specialized team meetings and/or do workshops formeetings and/or do workshops for specialized groups (SLPs, Autism, ID, etc.)

NOTE Wh iblNOTE: Whenever possible, include administrators.


Let’s All Go to the Movies!

• DVDsDVDs• Screen Capture Videos

P t S– Prnt Scrn– Jing– www.screenjelly.com

• Video on the Internet


Multi-Modal PD • Face to Face• Calendar• Calendar• DVDs• Podcast on CD• Website

– (http://lcps.org/at)• Online Learning & Communities (ex Moodle)Online Learning & Communities (ex. Moodle)• Google Docs as follow-up


Poor Man’s Active Vote(You asked for it in your KWL responses)

• Uh – oh we don’t haveUh oh, we don t have time to show you all of these So which do youthese. So, which do you want to see? Let’s vote!

• Let’s make a “poor man’s”• Let s make a poor man s active vote.

Follow Sally’s instructions to make one


to make one.

The Great Eight(Links to resources at the end of this presentation)(Links to resources at the end of this presentation)

1. High-Contrast in Word2. PhotoAlbum Feature of PowerPoint

(Show Google Docs here too) ( g )3. Visual Schedules (Linear and Amorphous)

4 Text to Speech4. Text to Speech5. Social “Situation” Stories6. Sound Record Feature of MS Word*7. Graphic Organizers (paper, software, Internet)

Free Powerpoint Templates 8. Pacing Boards (Communication strategy)

Consultations• Once upon a time…

We used to only do evaluations•• CONTACT US CONTACT US WITH ANY QUESTIONS• WE are your colleagues (who don’t

necessarily work in your building)y y g)» Is this RTI, Child Study (Is funding going into RTI?

What is the relationship between RTI and AT?)» How can the AT Team support ALL Students (even if» How can the AT Team support ALL Students (even if

not in special education)?» AT/UDL funding options only Sp Ed?

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Consultations: Outcomes/Follow-up

• Always have at least one thi t t b f lthing to try before you leave a consultation.

Recommendations can ONLY be for what is already available in the educational environment.


Consultations: Outcomes/Follow-up

• Follow-up with an e-mail summarizing your meetingsummarizing your meeting– Good for your record keeping– Chart this for justification j

purposes

Evaluation as an outcome. What if the student needsWhat if the student needs more than what is already available?


available?

Pick an envelope!

• Activity – Everyone gets a scenario (caseActivity Everyone gets a scenario (case study). Get up and find your scenario in the roomthe room.

• With the other people in your new group, develop a list of recommendations for thisdevelop a list of recommendations for this student (10-15 minutes)


Let’s Share!• Share your person and the

recommendations you came up with:recommendations you came up with:– Molly

Alex– Alex– Ms. Teacher

H d (L t’ l k t– Howard (Let’s look at your homework!)(htt //bit l /tt tf )(http://bit.ly/ttacatfun)

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Homework!

• Go to Google Doc – http://bit.ly/ttacatfunGo to Google Doc http://bit.ly/ttacatfun• Click on the “Math Resources” tab. Share

at least one tool/strategyat least one tool/strategy.• Click on the “Communication” tab. Share

t l t t l/ t tat least one tool/strategy.

R b t tRemember to put your initials after

your strategyFree Powerpoint Templates

your strategy.

Next time…

• Conducting Individual EvaluationsConducting Individual Evaluations• Conducting Classroom Evaluations

Di ti R t• Dissecting a Report• Summertime!


High Contrast in Wordg

• Tutorial – http://bit ly/highcontrasttutorialTutorial http://bit.ly/highcontrasttutorial

P d t htt //bit l /53 di hi h t t• Podcast – http://bit.ly/53audiohighcontrast

• Blog - http://bit.ly/episode53highcontrast

• Video - http://bit.ly/shiftaltprntscrn


PhotoAlbum Feature of PowerPoint

• Tutorial - http://bit.ly/powerpointphotoalbum

• Podcast - http://bit.ly/ep39audiopowerpointphotoalbum

• Blog - http://bit.ly/ep39blogpowerpointphotoalbum

• Video - http://bit.ly/videopowerpointphotoalbum

• Implementation Ideas – http://bit.ly/attb102


Visual Schedules• Linear -

– Blog: http://bit.ly/ep17linearvisualschedulesP d t htt //bit l / 17li i l h d l di– Podcast: http://bit.ly/ep17linearvisualschedulesaudio

• Amorphous• Amorphous –– Blog: http://bit.ly/ep18amorphousvisualschedules– Podcast: http://bit.ly/ep18amorphousvisualschedulesaudio


Text-to-Speech

• www.readplease.com –– Blog: http://bit.ly/readpleaseblog– Podcast: http://bit.ly/ep6readpleaseaudio– Video: http://bit.ly/readpleasevideo

• www.vozme.com -Bl htt //bit l / 48– Blog: http://bit.ly/ep48vozme

– Podcast: http://bit.ly/ep48vozmeaudioVid htt //bit l / id


– Video: http://bit.ly/vozmevideo

Social Situation Stories

• http://www.polyxo.com/socialstoriesp p y• http://www.region2library.org/SocialStories.htm• http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/strategies.html• http://www.thewatsoninstitute.org/teacher-

resources2.jsp?pageId=2161392240601226415747290


Sound Record in MS Word

• http://bit ly/recaudwordhttp://bit.ly/recaudword• http://tinyurl.com/quickrecord

Bl d d t htt //bit l / I• Blog and podcast http://bit.ly/gzpIvv


Graphic Organizersg

• http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/• http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm• https://bubbl us/https://bubbl.us/• Blog and podcast: http://bit.ly/ifXSGJ


Pacing Board g

• http://cmsweb1 loudoun k12 va us/509100http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/50910068152053/lib/50910068152053/Keeping%20Pace%207MB wmv20Pace%207MB.wmv

• http://attipscast.wordpress.com/tag/pacingboard/-board/


References

• Bugaj, C.R. & Norton-Darr, S. (2010). The practical and fun guide to assistive technology in publics schools: building or improving your district’s AT team. Washington, D.C.: International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).


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