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PATINS Tech Expo 2011 took place this past Thursday at the Crown Plaza in Indianapolis!  Thank you to all who came and helped make it a success!  It was a great event with lots of information from many assistive technology vendors including many presentations and hands-on opportunities with both software and hardware! If you missed [...]

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you all had a restful time with family and friends.  Most of us have made it through the first week back from break by now and hopefully excited about finishing the last half of this year strong!   Here are a bunch of FREE opportunities that you should know about [...]

NE PATINS Office has a NEW LOCATION! As of TODAY, the Northeast PATINS Site is located at: 1091 Central Avenue Wabash, IN 46992 Phone: (260) 563-5148  ext. 30 Fax:  coming soon Email (same) nepatins@ciesc.k12.in.us What this means: Moving mid-year like this isn’t easy and presents some potential for minor problems.  I am sorry for any [...]

PATINS Email! As you probably know by now, ALL PATINS Staff have new email addresses as of July 1.  Several of us have had some difficulty getting emails to our contacts from our new addresses.  If you have a minute, please check your email settings and/or make sure that “@ciesc.k12.in.us” is on your whitelist of [...]

My Experiences with Built-In iPhone  Accessibility Tools: Check out all the Built-In Accessibility features that come on the iPhone/iPad without needing any other equipment or software.  I’ve been playing with the settings on my phone and have a few thoughts.  www.apple.com/iphone/features/accessibility.html Many of you know that I spend A LOT of time in my car.  About [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

After spending a good portion of this week at the brand new ATIA Chicago Conference, I have a lot of really great tools to share! So, I’m sorry that I’m a day late on posting, but the conference is actually still going on right now (saturday) and I wanted to wait until I had everything [...]

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:   [...]