Zac Browser | Zone for Autistic Children

• Zac Browser Zone for Autistic Children

  Have you seen how the internet can be too overwhelming for children that are differently-abled? Here is a new solution to this problem. Zac Browser is a great interface specially designed for Autistic students or children with other similar disorders. You download the browser and then it limits the student to the games, TV, and music. The child is kept within the comfortable browser window rather than experiencing all the choices and trying to filter the advertisements and websites. I am very grateful we have software engineers that care about kids!

  tags: autism, autistic, browser, technology

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Christmas Countdown with Technology Wiki

Here is a unique wiki that Mary Frazier, an Integration Specialist from Buhler, Kansas has created! (That is right, Kansas deserves accolades again! We are just rockin' here in the midwest with technology!) The site provides you with a technology tip each day of the Christmas countdown! Mary walks you through step-by-step on how to create bookmarks, Wordles, making an avatar and more to come! She also provide classroom connection ideas.
Kudos,Mary Frazier for an innovative way to Countdown to Christmas with our students. We anxiously await your next lesson!

iTouch and iPhone Apps

Tammy Worcester is someone I truly idolize. I am not sure if she knows this or not. It is not a secret! It is simply not something I walk up to Tammy and say, "I idolize you and want to be you when I grow up!" However, she is a wonderfully talented, inspiring and insightful technology educator. I subscribe to her TechTips via email. Her latest TechTip is an interactive list of iTouch and iPhone apps you can add to. I am adding her link here. Feel free to add your favorite application to the list and then don't forget to subscribe to Tammy's TechTips! You will become a fan as well! If you meet Tammy (or already have the pleasure of knowing her) be sure and tell her I said Hello!! Velma

Animoto

Animoto

Animoto.com is an eye-catching slide show which students can create with their own images and even videos and then add music. They are super simple to create and free!
Start by creating an account at Animoto.com and then go through the steps listed along the side 1, 2 and 3. Really it is that simple!




My example from my trip to the Galapagos is below!

Unemployment in the US

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  Unemployment graphic from 2007 to current

  
  

  This sobering flash video depicts a graphic of the unemployment rate from 2007 to current date. The questions this would generate would be a great way to engage students in a very tough current event topic. Why is the unemployment rate higher along the coasts? What does this graphic tell us about the economic trends in the US? What other questions could you have students ask and then how can they find the answers?

  
  

  tags: unemployment

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Water Drop at 2000 Frames per Second

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  Water Drop at 2000 Frames per Second

  
  

  This video is certainly fascinating and would encourage students to explore the world of microscopes, Science, water and video.

  
  

  tags: water, microscope, microscopic, science, video

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