18 days of Christmas - audio books and ebooks

For this post we are going to discuss some Christmas audio books to enjoy with your class! Below I have listed some fun audio books or ebooks with a Christmas theme! Enjoy!

• Christmas carol audio book - Charles Dickens audio book from Story home 
• Christmas stories - Christmas stories from story-nory 
• Holidays are here - The holidays are here is a great holiday e book
• Christmas bear - Read this story about a Christmas bear. 

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All abilities playground

All abilities playground

This is a great space for students who use the computer via many different modalities can learn. There are two playgrounds with the same games, one playground is the mouse and keyboard playground the other is the scanning playground. Each playground offers several different virtual online games to play on the interactive whiteboard or computer. Thank you to Patrick Black who shared this site on Diigo!

ATIA 2011 from a distance

I am unable to attend too many conferences this year, so instead of attending the conferences in person I attend them via Twitter and any online sessions. I was  unable to attend ATIA this year, but here are some resources that I obtains through the Twitter hashtag #ATIA11. If you have any more notes or session notes you would like to share please add a comment at the bottom of the page.

• App Smackdown - Apps for AT and Augcomm
• Read the words - Text to speech online
• Tap it - an accessible smart board for individuals with limited mobility. I have seen this in action and it is truly amazing!
• Tactile graphics - production and design of tactile graphics
• Dot pub - convert a webpage to an ebook
• ATIA notes - Google doc folder of notes from ATIA
• ATIA notes 2 - Google doc folder of notes from ATIA
• SET BC - special education technology in British Columbia resoruces
• Atomic Learning - Education training for K12, higher ed, global education, and assistive tech!

Closing the gap from a far

     Unfortunately I could not attend Closing the Gap this year. So I decided to aggregate some cool tools from Closing the Gap from by Twitter peeps that attended the conference. First, there were two hashtags that were used for all things closing the gap: #ctg11 and #closingthegap, so if you would like to you can search for those hashtags for more information.

Here is what I found regarding cool sites:

• Weebly - Great online site tool
• QR code site
• Nova chat

Here are some presenters and exhibit hall sites:

•  Crick Soft
• Teach smart
• Ablenet
• My own voice ipad
• Big Keys
• Beyond Adaptive
• Conovercompany
• Vizzle
• Text help
•  Satillo
• TFE
• Widgit Software
• Therapy box
• Smart Ed services
• Mayer Johson

Some people to follow on Twitter Tweeted about Closing the Gap

• @singoffpitch
• @ToledoSigmaChi
• @SpeechTherapist
• @amybraddock
• @Shoostie2010
• @techieteacher