Computer+Talk?!

EDCO Course Summer 2011
 * I Can Make My Computer Talk to Me?!? And Other Built-in Apple Accessibility Tools: **

Syllabus:

Readings:
 * Required Readings:
 * “Using Apple Technology to Support Learning for students with Sensory and Learning Disability” found here: []
 * Recommended Readings:
 * Apple’s accessibility guide found here: []
 * “iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch Apps for (Special) Education” found here: []
 * “iPads are not a Miracle for Autism” opinion article found here: []

__Day 1__:

__Day 2__:

__Day 3__: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlXsCmPLHgc >> http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/ipad-becomes-the-apple-of-hollys-eye/story-fn7x8me2-1226083773188
 * Videos:
 * Apple Accessibility: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWbOs0oXaPs
 * Using VoiceOver: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEDzitE2w_0
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Using VoiceOver to read iBooks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-dQI6S6_Hw
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Proloquo2Go:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Child with Autism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfRSENIQaFc
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Replacing textbooks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzYI3cWPueM
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Resources:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/ - tons of educational apps
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">http://momswithapps.com/ - gives away a free app each Friday
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|list compiled by Eric Sailer]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//iPad Becomes the Apple of Holly's Eye// article:

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Links:

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">to [|Edmodo]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Conversions from text to audio:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">For 10.5 and before: [|Text to audio conversion]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">For 10.6 and after: Converting text to an audio file:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|CAST]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This is a video tutorial showing you how to use Preview to find a vocabulary word within a PDF, highlight it, look it up in the dictionary, and add in a note with the definition: media type="youtube" key="tD9HTQH_Maw" height="417" width="509"