Laurie

This assignment has me frustrated because neither the teacher nor professional surveys pertained to me and the answers I gave where controlled by what my company has been offering to us or is available. So I answered the best I could but neither reflect my personal level - it is hard at times to be an anomaly. I am not currently a classroom teacher (although I am by degree and cert) I am not an SLP or OT / PT, I am an entity of one in the educational ocean.

I went back and retook the Teachers EdTech Locator Assessment. I got an 11- not to bad when you consider that half of it did not apply to me. I really am not in the classroom teaching students so I think I should change this to teaching the Teachers what is out there and supporting their learning and implementation of the tools. Our administrative tasks are controlled by my company and most of these are now online so that is one area that I do not need to look at at the time. So that leaves the last two areas Parent Outreach and Professional Development. Which leads me back to the the Teachers and teaching them what is available and how to use it. Now the only questions is what to do with this idea. Something that will reach a lot of people easily with what is available and what they can do with it and how to use it. I have looked at many of the resources that came up after the survey. Several of them are very good and I would like to make them available to the teachers I work with. Hmmmm

 OK so I have jumped in to the fire. I have decided to start a wiki space. "Laurie's Assistive Tech Place"  Here is the link to the very beginning of my wikispace it is still in it's infancy. http://lauriesassistivetechplace.wikispaces.com

 As part of the how to section of Laurie's Assistive Tech Place we will have video Tutorials. (Suggested by a co-worker actually)  Here is the link to the start of the first one.  media type="custom" key="7939706"

Here is the cheat sheet that will go with the video  I also did a glogster - very simple for now.  media type="custom" key="7939626"

and I am using google docs to work with a co-worker on some vocabulary selection survays we are using when programing devices.