I had an opportunity to take a look at a new communication device at the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) Conference in January. It is called the ProxTalker and is a bit different from other devices on the market. As you can see, the ProxTalker’s design is one that fits in well with students who …
Monthly Archive: March 2009
Mar
10
A UDL resource you will want to bookmark
Many of you may already be aware of the Free Tech Toolkit for UDL, but just in case you haven’t had a chance to visit it, you should do so now. It’s actually a wiki and the address is http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/. For some reason, during the time of this post, I was having trouble getting the …
Mar
03
Academic Earth makes going to college easy
I ran across one of the best sites I’ve seen recently after reading about it an article. The site is called Academic Earth and this is how they describe themselves: We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from …
Mar
02
Kindle 2 Released
It’s official, the Kindle 2 has been released. I must admit that after seeing the Kindle 2, I now think that I may have purchased my Kindle too early. Although expensive ($359 at the time of this writing), it has updated many of the things that I find problematic with the 1st generation Kindle, including: …