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Submit To Present At The PATINS State Conference 2012! You are PROBABLY doing something amazing in your classroom or school OR you know someone who is. Could another educator somewhere in Indiana benefit from hearing more about what you’re doing?  Are you implementing Accessible Materials, creating Accessible Materials, promoting Accessible Materials, utilizing Assistive Technology to [...]

Did you know?  PATINS has a prize drawing for all those that participate in our Training Follow Up Surveys.  Sue Buse from Merrillville Community School Corporation was chosen as the lucky winner for this past quarter and received a Point 2 View USB Camera! Congratualations!    AppWriter/Dyslexie Font:  A really cool, but not free ($20) [...]

Tech Expo Advice! We’ve got some exciting and interesting new tools and concepts we’ll be implementing at this year’s Tech Expo.  Those of you registered for the 2012 PATINS Tech Expo on April 19th in Indianapolis will want to: Bring ANY laptop, netbook, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Tablet, etc., device that can get on [...]

6 Mostly Free, Easy, Fun Ways to Get Books/Content on Your iPad: Use MS Word and the Free (if you’re in Indiana) ePub Converter from Don Johnston on Mac or PC: Download the Step-By-Step PDF of this simple process here: Worde Pub To iBooks Step by Step McNulty PAGES Software on a Mac Computer: Download the [...]

Controlling Your SMARTBoard w/Your iPad:  This is a question I’ve received several times actually.  It’s a little bit confusing so I like to first make sure that folks understand what the smartboard actually is.  There’s no computer in the smartboard, rather the smartboard is connected to a computer and it controls the computer it is [...]

REGISTRATION OPEN!  Registration is now open for the PATINS Tech Expo 2012 on April 19! Download Informational Flyer Here REGISTER HERE!     A GoTalk on your iPad: New App I came across recently from Attainment that sort of turns your iPad into a GoTalk.  Interesting to me because the GoTalk is one of my [...]

Low Tech Mainstream AT:  I saw this photograph floating around on a social media network from a colleague this week and wanted to share it.  It not only represents a great idea for keeping your many cables where you want them, it also represents the fact that great assistive technology does not have to be [...]

PATINS TTA (Targeted Technical Assistance) Grant Selections Announced!  The PATINS Project thanks all districts who applied for your interest in the 2011-2012 Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) Targeted Technical Assistance Grant.  Congratulations to the districts who have been chosen to participate in this year’s grant process. A few applications were not considered because they were only [...]

Roger Ebert, “Remaking My Voice”: www.ted.com/talks/roger_ebert_remaking_my_voice.html Consider for a moment, the importance of having a voice and what having a voice really means. “Online, everyone speaks at the same speed.”  Do you provide ways for your students to have a voice online?  Do you need help coming up with ways for your students to have [...]

Free Audio Books! www.techsupportalert.com/free-books-audio?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmosbest+%28Gizmo%27s+Best-ever+Freeware%29 I’ve had some questions recently about using the popular touch-screen types of devices as a blind or visually impaired user and I’ve come across some videos on the subject.  Check these out: Using Nokia Touch Screen Phone: Using iPhone 4G with Braille Display: the video quality here is lacking a bit, [...]