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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 [...]

NIMAS and ROL Qualifications: I got these questions a few times this week about which students qualify for NIMAS File Sets of their Textbooks and which students qualify to use Read:OutLoud, so I thought I’d share some quick information on the subject for everyone.    I’ll be happy to help with this if I can.  First, [...]

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 [...]

MATH Tools: I had a couple questions this week about higher level math/equation writing AT tools: Info on the Equation Editor in MS Word: http://spot.pcc.edu/~ssimonds/thisandthat/msword.htm Nice Math Wiki Resource: http://math247.pbworks.com/ Math Type (commercial software): http://www.dessci.com/en/company/press/releases/081202.htm?utm_source=ET&utm_medium=email&utm_term=press+release&utm_campaign=MTW65press Creating Math Equations in Open Office: http://www.openoffice.org/product/math.html A pdf document explaining more about the Equation Editor in Word 2007: Equations [...]

Upcoming Training Events on PATINS PROJECT Second Life ISLAND! April 13, 3:30pm EST (12:30 SLT): Gentle Heron (Alice Krueger) presents on Accessibility Issues April 30, 9am-12:30pm EST (6am SLT): Daniel Presents NIMAS & Read:OutLoud in Indiana  Demonstration, Q&A, Discussion. May 27, 3:30-4:30pm EST (12:30 SLT): Kas Inglewood presents his research comparing the use of Blackboard [...]

This Monday & Tuesday’s Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Training Photos: Listing of Academic Organizations in SL: http://edudirectory.secondlife.com/ -PATINS ISLAND Listing: http://edudirectory.secondlife.com/listing/show/listing_id/131 -PATINS ISLAND VIDEO TOUR: Coming Next Week! Screen Jelly: A new free screen capture software I’ve found! www.screenjelly.com Vozme: One more web-based free Text To Speech Converter to add to your bag of [...]