Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
FREE Online Grading System!
Now this is too good to be true! But it really is. It’s Free…..it’s for teachers…..and it helps you organize your classroom! Love it.
The system is called Engrade. This grading system has several different parts to it such as:
Gradebook
Discussions
Wiki
Messaging
24 hour...
August 17th, 2011 | Teachers, Technology | Read More
One of our Reader’s Creative use of a Social Story
We had a great email from a Classroom Teacher who used an online program to create her own Ebook from one of the Social Stories that SNRMag provided to our readers.
She sent us this email:
We created an electronic book in ePub format that can be read in the iBook app (iPad, iPod, iPhone) or in epubbud.com‘s...
April 24th, 2011 | Teachers, Technology | Read More
IPADS, Stylus and Autism
We are so excited about the great things going on in the Special Education field with the use of IPADS, Tablets and Mini-tablets. The Apps are amazing and the research that will be generated from this new media is just beginning to come out. We want to share with you one video on a young man with...
February 8th, 2011 | Teachers, Technology | Read More
IPADS and Autism
Do you have an IPAD? Close your eyes and envision you in your classroom and every student has an IPAD. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? Well as time goes on it may just happen so….let’s get prepared.
I do believe that IPAD’s could be extremely helpful in providing a way for...
January 13th, 2011 | Teachers, Technology | Read More
Powerpoint Games — Ready to Play!
Have you seen this site? Technology Tidbits It is from the Fayette County Public School System in Kentucky. It has so many different links to wonderful ways of using technology in the classroom.
Here is one of those links: Powerpoint Games for the Classroom
Powerpoint games work so well in...
January 3rd, 2011 | Teachers, Technology | Read More
Hyperlinked Word Doc
We’ve been playing around with Microsoft Word trying to get creative in how it is used. Here is one way that you could use it in a classroom.
It’s a Hyperlinked Word Document. Because of the links embedded it prohibits download so we have included a photo of what it looked like and...
January 2nd, 2011 | Teachers, Technology | Read More
Touch Screens and Independence
You know I’m all about creating environments that enhance our student’s ability to be independent. That’s the lens through which I see everything I recommend for students with autism……”can we accomodate so that the student can do this for themselves?”
So, here...
September 19th, 2009 | Teachers, Technology | Read More
Computer Accessibility
I recently had a wonderful question from a reader (Chris in Pennsylvania) and he asked about computer accessibility for students with autism. I told him that I would answer his question as a post – because it was such a good question.
How can we make the use of the computer and the internet more...
October 25th, 2008 | Teachers, Technology | Read More
Oh Wonderful Powerpoint!
I do love Powerpoint and if you are creative you can use it for more than what it was designed to do.
I recently put together a visual schedule for a student with Autism using a touchscreen and powerpoint. I can’t post it for you to use because the child’s photo is in the schedule. So, let...
October 11th, 2008 | Teachers, Technology | Read More








