Fifth Class

With our fifth class came the conclusion of the webinar presentations. Angela, Lacee, and Christine presentation entitled, “New Apps for Learning Disabilities,” provided great information on apps that can be used with students in resource settings or in the classroom. The group discussed apps such as, Paperport Notes, Book Creator, and Prizmo. I took many ideas away from the presentation in regards to using the Book Creator app in my teaching practice. Book Creator can be used to create word lists and a dictionary of completed word lists. This would be a great tool for resource classrooms, learning centres, and LD classrooms. This app will allow teachers and students to upload documents to Dropbox and export files as PDF. Another benefit of this app when working with students with learning disabilities is that there is an in app voice recording for struggling readers. This group also gave a great introduction to Prizmo. Prizmo is an app that can be used for reading and accessing information. One feature of this app that I liked is that it allows the user to use their iPad or iPhone as a photo scanner that makes it possible to scan any document using the iPad or iPhone camera.   

Our fifth class has also acted as an introduction to assistive technology assessment models. During this class we were asked to research different assistive technology assessment models to gain a greater understanding of how assistive technology is selected for a student in need of support. My findings will be discussed in a future blog post.