Today was our Elluminate Live session. I decided not to go into Acadia and carry out the session at home. Initially, I thought I made a mistake in not going to Acadia since it would be hard to coordinate the group activity; however, in the end it worked out great, being at home. As mentioned in my post yesterday, Kurzweil is a very powerful program that can really open up reading for many young people (and older for that matter) who are reluctant readers, or afflicted with other reading disabilities.
Our task today was to select a document and utilize the features of Kurzweil to help tailor the document to the specific needs of a child with a particular learning disability.
I worked with Catherine and Shelley for this assignment. What was great about our arrangement is that we had to utilize the virtual classroom as I was at home while they were in Acadia. The virtual classroom provided a great experience for all of us to work in. It’s not the regular way of meeting about an assignment and by enabling the application sharing feature we were able to see what the other group was working on in real time, really neat stuff.
While Catherine created the description of the learning disability, Shelley and I looked at ways to use Kurzweil’s features to help our student. We were able to create pre-reading assignments, post-reading assignments, and obviously, apply features of Kurzweil to the actual document. We will present our work tomorrow, but it is a pretty neat program.
I’m still surprised Barbara refused my request to relinquish control of her computer to me though!
Ipod was docked a lot tonight with music going as I prepared some work for another class. I have checked weather, sports updates, email. I did use it with my son at bedtime tonight. We looked at the ABC app by Dr. Seuss on the ipod and then looked at the book as well – he seemed quite stunned to see the same thing in a book and on the touch!
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