EDPD 581

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12. 10 • I will share how the auto summarize feature, in MS Word, works with all my middle school teachers who need to adapt reading material for ESD students.

13. 9 • I will introduce my staff to my wiki at the September staff meeting.

14. 8 • I will ask very nicely if I can help our IT tech to add voice comment & word talk to MS Word 2007 in our computer lab. Then I will present it to my staff at a fall staff meeting.

15. 7 • I will add FireVox to my blind student’s SET BC laptop so he and I can learn how it works together.

16. 6 • I will take time to show our 5 valuable EAs my wiki and point out what is applicable to the students they work with.

17. 5 • I will try my very best to take more pictures during our spirit day events so that I can create an Animoto slideshow for each. Then I will be able to make a larger cumulative slideshow for the year end assembly.

18. 4 • My blind student and I will use VoiceThread to create a timeline of the school year, with my blind student narrating each page.

19. 3 • I will encourage all teachers to use Firefox as their main browser and to try the add ons with their students.

20. 2 • I will use Boardmaker everyday in everyway that I can. As a resource teacher, a second language teacher and a teacher of the blind, I am in awe at the infinite use for this powerful tool that will benefit so many students (& teachers).

21. 1 • I will continue to be enamored with Voki and Wordle. I will create a Voki to send to faraway friends on their birthday and I will print out Wordles in lieu of birthday cards for students and friends who live close.

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23. THE END • When I look back I think that this has been 5 days of intense learning but most importantly 5 days of FUN and I want to bring that FUN back to my school. I leave here feeling successful and I’d like to know that my students are going home each day feeling like a success as well. • “The road to success is always under construction.” Arnold Palmer • I leave here knowing I have much constructing still to do.