A Success Story
One of my dreams is to work myself out of a job as an assistive technology consultant. Today, I came one step closer to realizing that dream. Allow me to explain. Last week, I offered a two hour workshop to a team of special educators. We talked about assistive technology consideration, guiding principles for technology integration, universal design for learning and free technology resources to support struggling learners. They had a chance to explore the Free Technology Toolkit Wiki . At the conclusion of the workshop, they were given an assignment to identify at least one resource to support their students, use it and then report back when we met again. We reconvened today and our follow-up workshop started with small group discussions. Educators shared what worked and what didn't (because we know there are always obstacles). They heard each others ideas and got excited hearing how some of the tools effectively reached learners in new ways. A student who hated to write and typi...