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Professional Development Opportunities: Assistive Technology to Support Students with Low Incidence Disabilities

  • Hands-on computer lab opportunities in MCPS (register on PDO - search for classes using "tips" in the Course Title field)
  • Self-paced tutorials for those who prefer that learning environment

For training on WordQ, Kurzweil 3000, and other technology topics, check the MCPS High Incidence Accessible Technology [ HIAT ] website.

* For a listing of schools and their Tech Mod year, click TM 07-08-09-10 or TM 11.

 

 
 
Professional Development (Face-to-Face) in MCPS When Where
News-2-You: Overview for new users only

9/12/11 (T) 4-6 pm

CTI
Boardmaker Plus: Beginners (E-TIPS) 9/27/11 (T) 4-6 pm CTI (bring program CD and flash drive)
Boardmaker Plus: Making Communication Books (E-Tips) 10/6/11 (Th) 4-6 pm CTI (bring program CD and flash drive)
Boardmaker Plus: Interact ive features (E-Tips) 10/12/11 (W) 4- 6 pm CTI (bring program CD and flash drive)
Making Adapted Storybooks using Powerpoint (E-Tips) 10/26/11 (W) 4-6 pm CTI
Promethean Whiteboard: Sharing activities to instruct students accessing the FLS Curriculum (E-Tips) 11/3/11 (Th) 4 - 6 pm CTI
Tutorials Organization Comments

Boardmaker Plus! Interactive Book Tutorial (Tech Mod 09-10-11 schools)

 

Pacer Center

PDF file

Boardmaker Resources for Macintosh and Windows (2006)

Version 6 and Version 5

SET-BC

(Special Education Technology – British Columbia)

Presentations and PDF files for version 5 and version 6)

IntelliKeys - USB keyboard

Part 1 - Introducing the Standard overlays and using the Setup Overlay to adjust the keyboard

Part 2 - Using IntelliKeys with as a switch or switch interface

Part 3 - Using IntelliKeys with customized overlays

Assistive Technology Training Online Project

University at Buffalo

PDF files

 

IntelliTools Classroom Suite v 3.2

(IntelliTalk 3; IntelliPics Studio 3, IntelliMathics 3) - (Tech Mod 08 schools)

Learning Magic, Inc.

Click on Tricks and Tips in the left column

(onscreen info and PDF files)

IntelliTools Classroom Suite

IntelliTools Classroom Suite 4 presentation (Tech Mod 09-10-11 schools)

SET - BC

(Special Education Technology – British Columbia)

Supports for Version 4 and version 3.2

Macromedia Breeze presentation on v4

 

Inspiration Inspiration, Inc. Quick Start Tutorial
Kidspiration Inspiration, Inc. Quick Start Tutorial

 

 

 

Writing with Symbols 2000 ver 2.5 (Tech Mod 08 schools)

Environment Wizard

Renaming a Symbol - F11

Finding Alternative Symbols - F12

Using Photos and Images

Wordlists Explained

Widgit Software  

 

 

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