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The Autism Fall Virtual Conference … was this week of course!  If you missed it or want to review any of the sessions, they have been recorded and made available here.  Additionally, my session on iPads was interrupted with internet connection troubles and I have offered to re-do that session next week on Tuesday (9/20/11) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tech Expo Presentation Schedule: For those of you attending the Tech Expo next week here’s the “Schedule At A Glance:“  TechExpo2011PresentationAtAGlance Monday May 2, 2011 4-5pm EST Chris Bugaj & Beth Poss Present: UDL 2.0  The Read-Write Web: Free Tools for Students Register Here (limited): www.surveymonkey.com/s/MAY2 PATINS  Second Life Island Event Location: http://bit.ly/PATINSLSISLAND PGP Points [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]