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AIM To Start Early: AIM for Young Children with Scott Marfilius and Kelly Fonner  Part 3 WEBINAR RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE.  It has been captioned and is ready for viewing and taking the PGP certification. Watch it right here: OR watch this video, the first 2 parts of this series, and  ALL of the other PATINS [...]

Tech Expo Advice! We’ve got some exciting and interesting new tools and concepts we’ll be implementing at this year’s Tech Expo.  Those of you registered for the 2012 PATINS Tech Expo on April 19th in Indianapolis will want to: Bring ANY laptop, netbook, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Tablet, etc., device that can get on [...]

REGISTRATION OPEN!  Registration is now open for the PATINS Tech Expo 2012 on April 19! Download Informational Flyer Here REGISTER HERE!     A GoTalk on your iPad: New App I came across recently from Attainment that sort of turns your iPad into a GoTalk.  Interesting to me because the GoTalk is one of my [...]

Low Tech Mainstream AT:  I saw this photograph floating around on a social media network from a colleague this week and wanted to share it.  It not only represents a great idea for keeping your many cables where you want them, it also represents the fact that great assistive technology does not have to be [...]

2012 PATINS Tech Expo Date:   …officially announced!  April 19, 2012!   NEW LOCATION wFREE PARKING!  Add this to your calendars now!   Download the pdf flyer here: PATINS TECH EXPO 2012 Save The Date Here’s a BUNCH of short videos of last year’s Tech Expo if you want to see what it’s like: http://nepatins.edublogs.org/2011/04/15/4152011-patins-tech-expo-2011-videos-drm-podcast-interviews-creative-commons-and-copyright-great-highlighter-tool-free-software-upcoming-events Assistive Tech for [...]

PATINS Infomercial! We recently worked with CIESC Media staff to develop a VERY SHORT introduction to the PATINS Project.  It seems that every single week I run into at least one person who has never heard of PATINS and who asks me what we are all about in the state of Indiana.  Well, now in [...]

A Few New PATINS VENDOR DISCOUNTS (Thanks Sandy): www.patinsproject.com/buys.html School Content Filters Blocking Learning: A February 2010 article that I recently came across:  http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/how-school-content-filters-block-content-and-learning Mark Your Calendars! —May 2: Beth Poss and Chris Bugaj in Second Life on the PATINS Island! This will be on the PATINS SL Island in the Main Auditorium from 4pm-5pm.  [...]

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 [...]

2011 PATINS TECH EXPO April 13 (No Cost & PGP’s) REGISTER NOW ONLINE: click here SHIFT: It seems like I’ve been meeting quite a lot lately with school district teams interested in creating plans for systemic change within, so when I came across this SHIFT model from Don Johnston a couple weeks ago at ATIA, [...]