Worksheet for teaching money

Carl, recently shared a web site http://www.moneyinstructor.com/ that teachers use for teaching practical things about money. This is a very good resource. There is a limited free version and a more involved version, you pay a fee for.

I'm sure you are asking what does this have to do with using technology. I was a given a worksheet from the site to see if I could set up in larger type and better space for a student with visual perception issues, and I could! It was simply a matter of saving the worksheet web site to my desktop and slightly reformatting it. This really impressed me and I signed up on the website straight away.

I was then asked to look at another sheet to see it it could be read in a screenreader. Using the prior worksheet I had reformatted I could make it work a number of the most common and popular screen readers. Thanks Carl for sharing this one, and thank the parents who asked me to "see what I could do" with this one.

Browser for children with autism

I had the opportunity last year to share with Carl. A browser designed for children with autism http://www.zacbrowser.com/
It is available to anyone for free.

I use assistive technology in my life everyday. If you do too, can you share those experiences here to help others? Do you write windows script or mac automators that make things more accessible for you? Please share it here!

Thank you Shawn for sharing this with me, so I could share it with Carl and many others and add to the AT world.

Alternative Text Formats

I am regularly surprised by how little, most K-12 educators know about alternative texts. Having said that though I’m very gratified about how open they are to the idea I have called many text book publishers only to learn that, not only did they have an alternative text (mostly on CD), but the given school district was licensed for it. School librarians are wonderful about providing these formats once they know they can. For a student who learns auditory you get a positive result for both the student and instructor very quickly. Educators call your text publishers!