EdCeptional Show #13: Summer Thoughts in the Cloud

Although we had a smaller than usual EdCeptional crew and are all overwhelmed with end-of-year craziness, we decided to keep on rolling!  To start off this week’s show, we each shared our favorite childhood summer activities.

• Jeremy Brown: I use to go to northern Michigan every summer, where my dad’s family all had cottages.  My favorite activities there were riding my bike, swimming, and yes, pretending to be a lifeguard!
• Deb Truskey: As a kid, summer seemed endless! We lived on the southeast side of Chicago. Our house was not air conditioned. Sitting on the front porch in the evening, catching fireflies and visiting with neighbors was always fun. It seemed like there was always a pack of kids to play with at any given time. Everyone was outside!
• Your host for tonight….Patrick Black:  I spent the whole summer outside, one of my favorite places was a little town called Lakeside, we went with some cousins, basically had the run of the town, swim in Lake Erie, and just hang out

 

NEWS WATCH:

• App Market Explores for Techie Toddlers
  • A Parent Struggles with Child’s iPad Addiction – David Pogue

• eSchoolNews: Some Calif Schools see rising test scores with iPads

• eSchoolNews: Speech Therapy Moves Online

• Learning: Is there any app for that? [PDF]

 

BLOG WATCH:

• Parents:
  • IEP Recommendation: Mobile Access by Shelly Blake-Plock

• Special Education Teachers:
  • Exceptional Abilities

• General Education Teachers:
  • 2,000 Hours

• Speech Language Pathologists:
  • iSpeak App
  • App Ability

• Corporate:
  • Hacking Autism

 

“ON THE RADAR”- RESOURCES / TOOLS / FUNCTIONS:

• AAC:
  • CandLe Ltd.’s AAC Self-Assessment Tool-Kit
  • Smarty Symbols

• Accessibility:
  • Windows:
    • Making Windows Accessible by Ira Socol
  • Switches:
    • Ablenet’s Switch Selection Grid [PDF]

• Mobile Learning (iOS/Android):
  • IOS 5 – 200 new features
    • custom LED flash/vibration alerts
    • assistive touch
    • new notifications
    • camera from lock screen & new camera features
    • Multi-tasking gestures & split keyboard
    • iPad Mirroring via AirDisplay
    • http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/2011/06/ios-5-features-list-part-1.html
    • http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/2011/06/ios-5-features-list-part-2-camera.html

• Software:
  • Mac:
    • Doodle Hangman Free (Mac App Store)

 

• EdCeptional:
  • Diigo group

• Twitter chats:
  • SLPchat will be held on Aug. 7th at 2 PM EST. Topic will be SLPs and Literacy.  Thank you @SLPTanya & @speechreka for this information!

• Recent & Upcoming Conferences:
  • ISTE 2011 – follow #iste11 on Twitter
    • Conference NING

• Offers/giveaways:
  • A4CWSN App Parties
  • iTeach Special Education: iOS Devices in Special Education is giving member #1,000 free 30-minute personalized app consults for July & August!