Day 5 - More Fun with Apps

Our class watched webinars yesterday about different Assistive Tech apps and chose apps that we felt would be useful to use in our classrooms. Here are the highlights!

• Executive Function Apps: Check out the following blog, which highlights apps to use with children who have problems with their executive functioning: http://tarahgarybevnancy.blogspot.ca/

• Apps for Reluctant Writer's: This was the webinar that my group watched, check out our PowerPoint for some great apps!! (Thanks Mary for sharing how to embed PowerPoint Presentations!) :
  

  Apps for Reluctant Writer's
  

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• New Apps for LD - Reading Comprehension (speech selection, different levels of reading, versatile-different subjects), Mastering Sight Words (context and recognition, maximizes word exposure), 7 Notes Premium (can add images with text, word prediction, spell check, edit text, add visuals, cannot transfer data from word), Tools4students (supports students written input, graphic organizers, only available for IPAD), AppWriter Us (supports both reading(input) and writing(output), great for students with dyslexia or visual processing issues.

• Great video to show how people with dyslexia see print :

• Top Free Apps in Special Education - Who doesn't like free? Some people say that you get what you pay for, but these Apps are GREAT! Some great ones that were highlights are: Dragon Dictation, MathTappers and Settings! Look to the right of my blog for brief descriptions of these Apps! Here is a demo on how to use Dragon Dictation:

• Apps for Reluctant Reader's - StoryBuilder (Create your own book by answering question prompts and publish to iBooks), Vbookz (text to speech and voice reader), ABC Pocket Phonics (teaches sound letters and how to blend sounds, letters are grouped by frequency). Here is a demo on Vbookz:

Still to come: My Task Analysis of the reading process!! Check out tomorrow's blog to see my finished product created in Inspiration!