Technology Integration in Special Education

Facilitating the Use of Technology With Special Needs Students

Welcome to TISE

Welcome.
This group will address problems effecting the integration of technology into the lives of the Special Education community and host collaboration designed to solve them.

Join if you wish to participate in discussion that will:
Promote the overall integration of technology for the S.E. community
Clarify issues hampering the integration process
Structure collaboration for actionable results
Connect those who use technology with those who create it.
Lead to action

Our first project can be found under the Integration With Autism tab above.
Please check out the sub-groups involved with this effort under the Membership > Groups tab above.

Blog Posts

Michael Leventhal

"Autism Advocates Needed" 1st news coverage.

Trust this article will help bring more of us together.

NOTICE: We need a means of maintaining a current "snapshot" of our membership to ensure adequate representation of the autism educational community and access to resources this group will need. Would appreciate if someone with experience in data… Continue

Posted by Michael Leventhal on November 14, 2009 at 6:00pm

Michael Leventhal

FIRST PROJECT: Promoting the use of Video Modeling with autism

This project will:
Identify concerns of parents, educators and administrator regarding use of video modeling.
Determine what information and services are needed to satisfactorily address these concerns
Identify potential sources of such information or services
Propose a means of linking people with these resources
Be presented in a panel presentation at the ISTE 2010 conference


We currently have 3 groups performing sp… Continue

Posted by Michael Leventhal on November 9, 2009 at 5:30pm

Michael Leventhal

A wonderful clip enabling empathy with the world of sensory issues

Beautiful clip by Mad Monkey, scored by Jason Moss of Supersonic Music clips for the Autism Coalition & Surfers Healing

Posted by Michael Leventhal on November 5, 2009 at 9:30pm

DUMA CORNEL LUCIAN

Please vote me . Duma Cornel Lucian teacher and education counselor who help students with special needs

The AtmosphEUROPA contest for young minorities of any kind. The contest is open to anyone who is under 29 years old, comes from a minority background, lives in Europe and is active on climate protection, on diversity in society, or on poverty reduction. YOU WIN this Contest if you mobilize the most people who will vote for you and your ideas on climate, diversity , and poverty.
This project is under high patronage of President Hans-Gert Pöttering of the European Parliament
With the words of Pres… Continue

Posted by DUMA CORNEL LUCIAN on October 23, 2009 at 1:06pm

Michael Leventhal

Face to face tour- Debrief

Unfortunate, I was not able to meet many LinkedIn members during California tour. However, I did meet with Gillian Hayes and David Nguyen of UC Irvine and Casey Wimsatt of Symbionica. All agree that connecting researchers to consumers and tech developers is key to facilitating the integration of tech with special education. What can we do to help in this effort?

Should there be an intermediary agent responsible for moderating discussion between folks in The Ivory Towers and those in The Trenche… Continue

Posted by Michael Leventhal on September 24, 2009 at 7:00pm

Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs

Healing Hiatus

Long Version of Story:
In what has to be one of the most bizarre things to happen to me yet last night I was mauled in the left hand (at the base of my thumb mostly) by this neighborhood stray cat I pet frequently.  If you have never been bitten, forget mauled, by an animal let me give some news, it hurts. 

I drove myself, in my pjs (since I had run down to put out the trash in my pjs) to the ER with my hand wrapped in some blood soaked gauze.   Treatment started with a wash of the bites (there are about eleven of them) and a hand soak in a betadine solution.  Since the feline in question was both unknown to me and whereabouts unknown I was treated immediately for both possible bacterial infections and rabies. Yup, rabies.  Forget what you learned on Different Strokes, the injections were not in my stomach.  Ten injections of Rabies Immunoglobin were given into my backside, thighs, upper arms and into the wounds.  Then the first of five rabies vaccines was given DIRECTLY INTO THE WOUNDS, that would be along my thumb joint.  The vaccine is about the thickness of corn syrup and it was took multiple "sticks" to get it all into the swollen and unyielding joint area.  Then I was given a tetanus shot.  I also had two IV drips of anti-biotics.  Nausea inducing anti-biotics.  Finally I was bandaged, given the dates for my future returns to the ER for more rabies vaccinations, and told that at my third visit I will be sent to see a surgeon if I am still unable move my thumb.  My good hand full of prescriptions and a note to return to work I headed home, it was about 3:30 AM.

Touch typing is impossible, so I have done this via one handed hunt and peck.  I am exhausted from the medications and nauseous from the anti-biotics.  Thus,

Short Verion of the Story:

I am taking a blog hiatus to recover.  I plan to return either after Thanksgiving or after my last rabies vaccine injection (12/17) when ever I feel the closest to "myself" again.

Kate

I am this many! Happy Blog Birthday!

Today marks the third birthday of Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs! Whoo-whooo!

What started out as a way for this special education teacher to give back (and keep busy during recovery from ankle surgery) has turned into something much, much bigger. Approaching 1,000 posts, 130+ Google foll0wers, an average 850-1000 visitors a day, nearly 500 Google Reader subscribers (and who knows how many other RSS readers) and about 500,000 visits total since inception. Wow! Who knew?

There is also now an active TLWMSN Ning (online discussion group) and a Facebook Group.

If this blog has helped you this is your time to come out of the woodwork. Please comment and leave some blog birthday wishes!

Thanks, Kate Ahern, M.S.Ed., creator and author of the Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs Blog

Wordless Wednesday - Juicing for Key Lime Pie



The student is accessing a wobble switch at mid-line on her wheelchair tray to activate the Wireless Jelly Bean Switch, which is plugged into the Power Link environmental control unit, which is controlling the power to the juicer. The teacher is pressing the lime onto the juicer. In the end we juiced one cup worth of lime juice!

Time Timer iPod App


We have a morning routine that goes something like this: the students gather around the projector for morning meeting and one of my wonderful teaching assistants gathers up a behavior chart, a dry eraser maker, and a huge Time Timer.  She approaches a student and reminds her of her ability to earn a reward by collecting ten stars.  A star is given each time ten minutes passes on the Time Timer without incidence of interrupting/disruption and a bonus star is given for each appropriate AAC device activation.  Through our morning meeting I watch the student and the staff quietly interact as they draw dry erase stars on the chart and re-set the Time Timer for ten more minutes. 

Ironically, almost, the reward this student earns is use of the classroom iPod touch to listen to music.  She uses Flick Tunes to be able to more easily change the song, but in general is just content to have music on.  

Won't it be cool this week when I can download the only app I have been waiting for from the iTunes store and have this entire process move to the iPod Touch?  The Time Timer App (get it in the iTunes store) is a way to have a Time Timer in your pocket.  It is perfect for counting down those difficult transitions (we just used our "old fashioned" Time Timer for this the other day, a student who does not like to leave on Fridays is given a five minute countdown on the Time Timer and then leave school like a pro) on the go.

We will even think about adding one of the many star charts apps (iAchieve, iRewards, Earn It Stars) to our iPod Touch as well, so the entire process from the Time Timer to the stars to the music is in one place - on one iPod. 

Power Point Add-On for "Switch Happy" Students

Image of an animated power point story book title screen with the 4Pete's Sake padlock utility in front.

Barrie over at One Switch has shared this great add-on to make Power Point slide shows a bit more usable for our students.  The add on is called 4Pete's Sake in reference to the wonderful sensory stories at Pete's Stuff.  
 
(I am considering having my December Theme Unit be either "Oz-mas" and using Pete's Wizard of Oz and some of Alicia's activities or "Dickens Holiday" and using Pete's "A Christmas Carol). 

4Pete's Sake has two modes.  The first mode, called Padlock, locks the slide so that the student cannot turn the page until a second switch (or button on the keyboard) is pressed.  The second allows the students to move forward and backward withing a slideshow using one switch and a scanning box with arrows on screen. 

Padlock seems like a great way to allow students to turn the pages of a story or another kind of slide show for themselves or a group without worries of that "12 switch hits in 6 seconds and the book is over" situation.  Back and Forth mode could be a great way to teach beginning scanners.  You could even have yes/no on two slides to answers questions.  Or a student could have two slides with Red Light/Green Light and run a fun game for friends.  The possibilities are endless.

NCTE News and Events

NCTE: Scoilnet

  a. Scoilnet Newsletters.

  b. Positive feedback about Scoilnet from CPD courses.

NCTE: IBM Kidsmart

Schools across the country have once again benefited from IBM’s continued commitment to education and innovative use of technology in education when they received Young Explorers™.  This is IBM’s 10th successive year of the very successful and innovative KidSmart Early Learning Programme in Ireland.

RDS Primary Science Fair

The RDS Primary Science Fair provides an opportunity for 100 lucky primary schools to exhibit a class project at the annual BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition which will be held at the RDS in January 2010.

Clare Teachers Embark on European Web 2.0 Project

Teachers from eight Primary and two Secondary schools in Co. Clare have been taking part this week in workshops in Clare Education Centre and St. Joseph’s Secondary School, Tulla on how to use the latest Web 2.0 applications like blogs, photo galleries and Skype and other open source tools for teaching and learning

BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2010 - record number of entries

A record number of schools have entered the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition for 2010, proving that interest in science, technology, mathematics and engineering continues to grow throughout the country. 
 
 

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