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One of the free webinars from the PATINS collaboration with Ohio and Michigan is taking place this Thursday.  Remember you can see all of the Interstate Webinars HERE Universal Design for Learning: Reach and Teach All Students Webinar Series – Part 1 Thursday, October 13, 2011 – 3:00 – 4:00 pm EST This presentation will [...]

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 [...]

Last week I attended the Spring Leadership Development Program Seminar at Purdue University, which was all about “Working Smarter With Technology, Not Harder.”  I grabbed a bunch of great ideas and tools, some of which I knew, but many were new to me and all are worth sharing! Poll Everywhere (texting polls in class with [...]

Virtual Worlds Best Practices In Education is Happening RIGHT NOW! This is the third year I’ve attended and my second year presenting at this amazing 3 day, online, free, international educational conference. If you can possibly get into Second Life to attend any of this conference today.  It started at 5pm EST last evening and [...]

Open Source Content/Virtual School: http://thejournal.com/Articles/2011/03/02/Open-Content-in-Practice.aspx?Page=1 What Is OPEN CONTENT? www.opencontent.org/definition Open High School Website: www.openhighschool.org Why Open Source Textbooks? (Video): http://davidwees.com/content/why-textbooks-should-be-open-source Audiobook Creator: I had a couple of emails this week from teachers wanting to take some audiobooks they had and bread or divide them up into more manageable chunks.  The books they have are [...]

Textbooks No More? Several of you have probably heard me talk recently in-person about the future of textbooks and some ways to prepare.  Here’s an interesting article about Washington State and their redesigning of the textbook for the digital age, as a follow up: http://education.newsweek.com/2011/01/25/who-needs-textbooks.html VoiceThread for All Students: You’ve probably heard me talk about [...]

Free UDL Forum March 31: The registration is open online for the UDL Forum in Columbus at the end of March….first come, first served registration. http://www.bcsc.k12.in.us/15891021813643263/blank/browse.asp?a=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&c=62885&15891021813643263Nav=|&NodeID=2552 Configure Your Firewall To Allow Second Life: I can tell you that we’ve got at least one really exciting opportunity coming up on the PATINS Second Life Island.  Here’s [...]

SORRY I’M LATE this week!  I’ve been terribly sick for nearly a full week now and hope none of you get this nasty virus!  I do have some great things to share however and better late than never! AT Overview Module: NW Site Coordinator, Jim Lambert, has done an awesome job creating this online module [...]

Hard to believe we’re 1 semester down already in the 2010-2011 school year!  I hope you are all enjoying some relaxing time with family and friends, so I’ll keep it short this week. Great WRITING Resource! (thanks Jim):  Found by NW PATINS Site Coordinator, Jim, this writing web resource is quite powerful!  http://livebinders.com/play/play/2170 TapSpeak CHOICE: [...]

Upcoming Events: Remember there are FREE PATINS Trainings happening all the time and you can always request additional! For example, on Monday morning at 7:30am, for just one quick hour I’ll be covering Text To Speech and Audio Files Basics…. for Free! See them all here: www.patinsproject.com/training.html ISTE Second Life Events: Remember that the International [...]