Blog for Friday, October 14, 2011
Today was no different than the others. The quality of the sessions once again
surpassed my expectations. If you have
the opportunity to attend this conference, please do so, it will change the way
that you teach and use technology in the classroom.
Not only are the sessions great, remember I mentioned the
SWAG? Well, today one of our teachers
won the second most expensive door prize because he completed a scavenger hunt
at the trade show. He won a $750
computer program, Interact-AS. This
program is does closed-captioning for deaf students, as well as language
translation (I can speak English and it will print out what I say in one of 36
languages).
What is so awesome is that
we have a deaf student, who does not have a translator (long story, don’t get
me started on it), and we have been struggling with including him in
classes. Well, this program will help
solve most of those issues. A teacher
wears a microphone (we’ll be purchasing a wireless one), which is hooked up to
the student’s laptop, and closed-captioning is created of everything that the
teacher says. This program makes Dragon
Dictate/Naturally Speaking look like a K-car parked next to an Audi.
We now have the capability to
create an inclusive learning environment and experience for this deaf
student! I’m pumped (can’t you tell?)!
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