Assistive Technology - Access to Literacy (Acadia University - EDUC 5163)

This blog is a collection of thoughts, assumptions and resources about Assistive Technolgy with a focus on literacy skills. Also included are ideas of how I will transfer my new found AT knowledge to my classroom. I hope you leave this blog having learned something new!


Monday, 9 July 2012

Day 4 - Apps for Reluctant Writers

What a wonderful webinar! I think this course should be part of a Bachelor of Education program because all of these apps that we are learning about are UDL. The are engaging and interactive and I only wish that this technology existed when I was going through the school system.
I watched a webinar on reluctant writers with 3 of my classmates, and the apps we chose as being the most useful in our classrooms are: Pictello, Strip Designer, Instant Poetry, DocsToGo and Writing Toolkit. Check out our PowerPoint:

For those teachers who do not have access to Ipod or IPad, the following is a link to useful websites that can be accessed from any computer:
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  1. Barbara Welsford10 July 2012 at 17:45

    I agree Lacey...lets make it part of the BEd program! Too important to miss at that stage!

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