Wednesday, September 24, 2008

EDSE 241 Week 5

Assistive Technology Centers
What can you do to be a resource or a support for students, teachers, school, district in low tech or no tech to provide accessible mainstream technology support?
I really like the idea of creating a tool kit for general education teachers using things like high lighter tape and post it tabs, etc. I can also create a kit to keep in my room since my room is grand central station at my high school. Each of the resource specialists at my school has a subject matter designation. For example, I am math, my neighbor is English, one other teacher is history and one, science. I could create a kit for each of the resource teachers that is subject specific for working with their content area and we could each keep it in our rooms. That might encourage the general education teachers to come to our rooms to discuss strategies and accommodations and create more integration.

How can you use powerpoint as a learning and teaching tool?
I would like to create a powerpoint as a lesson and upload it to our school loop. Then, I will have the students sit at their computers and go through the power point with me in their own accounts, but they will be able to click on the links to go to extra practice sites, etc. I'm also on a freshman success team and I could create power points for use with professional development. I'm also on a math team for our district that is looking at the best structure for math inclusion and we'll be creating a model for the rest of the district to look at so I can use a power point to create presentation with video and audio to illustrate the model.

1 comment:

Sharon Eilts said...

I love the idea of resource toolkits! Awesome!

You are in a position to influence so many teachers who in turn will help so many students. You have an opportunity to touch the lives of so many kids! If a few powerpoint presentations can do that, wow.

Sharon