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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 [...]

THIS COMING MONDAY! May 2   4-5pm EST NO COST! Chris Bugaj & Beth Poss Present: UDL 2.0  The Read-Write Web: Free Online Tools Register Here (limited, but spots still available): www.surveymonkey.com/s/MAY2 PATINS Second Life Island Event Location: http://bit.ly/PATINSLSISLAND PGP Points Available for Attending Right After School Timing for most Must have Second Life Software Installed [...]

Teaching in Second Life: (Thanks Colleen!) This is a program developed in New York City Schools District 75 using Second Life as a virtual world for training students – This course is for teachers of high school aged students in alternate assessment whose goals focus on expanding students’ communication, social and life skills.   Students selected [...]

Friday morning, the normal Blog posting is scheduled to happen, but I wanted to get this special news out ASAP! ICAM is offering a free software update for Read:OutLoud.  Remember, ROL is a great text to speech program that opens NIMAS files beautifully along with pdf, txt, rich text, html, xml, DAISY and offers many [...]

Can you read the above image? Many of your students probably can!  They are also communicating with one another using these QR-Codes and unless you can read them, you have no idea what they are saying!!!   Scary?  Perhaps.  Exciting and bursting with possibilities?  ABSOLUTELY! So, here’s your mission: You need to locate a free : [...]

“According to a research report from Forrester, by 2012, “3-D Virtual Platforms will be as important for work as the Web is today.” Are you prepared for this?  Are you prepared to prepare your students for this?  How about to prepare your students with disabilities for this? National Presenter: David Davis on, “Virtual Instruction and [...]

I know I’ve been really bad about updating this blog the last few Fridays in a row!  Things have been quite busy and I apologize.  I hope everyone returned to their classrooms and offices well fed and rested after the Thanksgiving Holiday and are now ready to rest for a few more days before tackling [...]

PATINS-Project Second Life OPEN HOUSE this coming TUESDAY!!! Here’s your chance to see what the PATINS Project is doing in Second Life. We are hosting an open house on our Second Life Island and you are invited to join us to see what it is all about. When:    Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Time:   [...]

Here are some upcoming FREE or low cost conferences on and in virtual worlds about teaching and learning in the 21st Century. 1. Virtual Worlds Best Practices In Education 2009: This 3 day conference is entirely online in Second Life and is FREE.  March 27, 28, 29 “The Virtual World Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) [...]