Teaching

The Reading Education Assistance Dogs® (R.E.A.D.) program improves children’s reading and communication skills by employing a powerful method: reading to a dog. R.E.A.D. is one of those ideas that, in the words of Bill Moyers, “pierces the mundane to arrive at the marvelous.” A great idea. Congratulations, Intermountain Therapy Animals, for your program that helps dogs listen to readers words. AJ, Lora's Treeing Walking...

eBook Host offers 1:1 Computing: A Guide to Help You Make Decisions. Its 44 pages include these chapters: Technology Decisions and 1:1 Computing. Program Planning and Evaluation The Education Landscape Leadership in Action Instructional Support Technology and Curriculum Integration Professional DevelopmentFinancial Issues and Funding Sources Technology Infrastructure Technical Support This overview seems a useful introduction to 1:1 learning in classrooms for school administrators to...

I wonder how many people consider this question to Garrison Keillor by Kathryn, a fifth grade teacher, a joke? My question is: Do I drag all 27 of my fifth graders through least commom denominators, greatest common factors, and so on; or do I merely wait for them to get a job teaching fifth grade (that's when she said she learned them), letting them...

Google will offer The Google Teacher Academy November 7, 2006, at the Google Campus in Mountain View, CA.This is a pilot program designed to help K-12 educators get the most from innovative technologies. The Academy is for one day. Participants will get hands-on experience with Google products and other technologies, receive instructional resources to share with colleagues, and share innovative instructional strategies with...

Carol Allen described uses of Tablet PCs with students with disabilities. Her purpose was to understand the value a Tablet PC to learners with special educational requirements. A Year 8 student with MS wrote at North Tynsdale Woodlawn School: “So far it has been going great! I have finally got the hang of the writing pad. It was difficult to write r’s on the...

Don Lipper is looking for help from teachers. He's writing an article for a national education magazine about how to hire teach savvy teachers in a K-12 setting. Don wants educators to respond to him to his six questions. What makes a tech savvy teacher? (Is it attitude or knowledge of specific minimum of hardware/software packages?)How should a tech-savvy teacher create lesson plans? What...

Mary Cullinane shares her thoughts about events leading up to opening today of the School District of Philadelphia School of the Future. This has been a joint venture of the Philadelphia district and Microsoft. The school opens today at 8AM! And a great cartoon on the School of the Future Chronicles illustrates the hope for students attending here. ... we had the right PEOPLE...

Jennifer Ring, a class facilitator at the Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation, who used voice recognition software on HP's tablet PC to provide real-time dictation to her hearing-impaired students. This technology is absolutely amazing, and I can not express enough appreciation to HP for this opportunity. Thank you! HP offers a program to assist people with disabilities and limitations due to aging. Kudos!

Sara Ford discussed accessibility and Tablet PCs on Channel 9 August 18, 2006. Sara is a Microsoft software design engineer and tester on the Visual Studio team. She makes sure that everyone is able to use Visual Studio (she's an accessibility expert). Imagine you were blind and want to program in Visual Studio. Thanks to Sara's, and other people's efforts here, you'd be able...

Guy Barker offers tips and software for people with disabilities using a Tablet PC. He gives priority to ways that may not be so well suited to other computers. Check out Tablet PC Speech Assistant, Ink to Speech, Improve Handwriting, and cartoon accessibility. He's open to suggestions for other programs you think will be useful. Great site for people with disabilities. Also, Barker and...