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NEIT14 - OpenSpace Session - Click "edit" to add notes for session.

Learning Differently

Wendy Semsel - Churchill

Kira Kingren - Mary McDowell

Steve Azeka - Stephen Gaynor

Alex Steinberg - Churchill

Marcie Wister - Kildonan

Charles Vergara - Tuxedo Park

Martha Erskine - Marymount

Shannon Stringer - Churchill

Ann Rowley - Winword

__Struggles__

Dyslexia

Decoding

Comprehension

Organization

Kira - Spreadsheet: what each student is using the software for? Kurzweil, but why?

How do you involve teachers in the process of choosing technology and software?

-Sandbox

-Teacher proposals

-Pilot programs

-Invite teachers to try

Read & Write Gold - Text to speech

Kurzweil - Text to speech

Steve - Having student artifacts/work created through technology can be beneficial to show to administrators when trying to convince to get new tech

-Smart Notebook - create objects to snap to grid for Math

-Newsela (Change reading level of articles)

Kira - Clearly app - plugin strips extraneous garbage from websites

also Safari does this, but not the contrast bit

Clipular - screen grabbing for Chrome

Learning Ally - $99 per kid

Create Listserv for assistive tech groups

Tekserv?