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Schedule of Presentations Announced! PATINS State Conference 2012 Download the PDF Schedule Here: PATINS State Conf 2012 Schedule of Presenters Flyer About The Conference: PATINS State Con f2012 Flyer 2 “DRM Corner-Chat” with the ICAM-IERC Experts! Register for the conference Here:  www.surveymonkey.com/s/StateConf2012 Flipping The Classroom:  This Fall, we’ve already been contacted a few times about districts that have [...]

NEW ICAM Blog Announced! Martha Hammond at the ICAM has started blogging all things AIM, NIMAS & ICAM related on Thursdays via the brand new “ICAM Dispatch.”  I think it’d be a wise decision to take 5 minutes and check it out, subscribe just like you do to this blog and leave Martha some comments, [...]

Welcome Back To School …for many of you! PATINS Targeted Technical Assistance Grants:  There seems to be some confusion out there about 2 related but unconnected Grants that were recently announced.  There was a grant that was due to IDOE on 8/10 this week.  There is a separate and different grant through the PATINS Project [...]

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 [...]

Google & Autism Spectrum (thanks Chris B): Did you know about Google for Education?   …and that Google has a project for students on the autism spectrum and the educators working with them?  Check this out: www.google.com/educators/spectrum.html Collaborating and Presenting in Second Life Viewer 2!  As you may know, Viewer 2 for Second Life introduced [...]

Yesterday’s Presentation on PATINS Second Life Island: …was great!  David Davis did a wonderful job and provide interesting ideas, challenging thoughts and a powerful set of resources and handouts.  We had 40 people attend with their avatars and several of those avatars were presenting the session via LCD projector for others to watch.  We plan [...]

50 Free Graphing Apps on The Web! #1 on this list actually looks really good.  It’s sort of a kids’ version of graphing with Excel.  Could be very engaging for students to graph data together using a large screen in the front of the room or individually using netbooks, iTouches, or computers. http://bestconstructionmanagementdegree.com/2010/50-free-web-apps-to-make-beautiful-graphs IEP Checklist [...]

David Davis is a respected national level speaker from the Florida Diagnostic and Learning   Resources System (FDLRS), who’s recent national presentations have included such titles as, “Accountability & Student Outcome Data Collection Systems,” and “Distance/Virtual Learning and Success for Students with Disabilities” This presentation will take place in Second Life on the PATINS Project Island.  [...]

Surely, by now you’ve experienced some of the buzz about Twitter by now.  Many of you probably have an account, but haven’t used it in 9 months.  Others might be daily users!  Most of you are probably somewhere in the middle.  So, I thought I’d do a blog posting this week that deals with some [...]

Support The PATINS-Project: Please see this letter in request of your support for the PATINS-Project to continue providing Assistive Tech and UDL support in the State of Indiana.  We would greatly appreciate your voice of suport. Download Letter Here: PATINS AT letter of support 11-10-09 Think the idea of multiple parties in multiple locations collaborating [...]