Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Kurzweil

The Kurzweil program is awesome!!! A number of students are benefiting from this program. I really enjoyed developing this weeks assignment with my partner. I also had the opportunity to present a basic training of Kurzweil to staff at our school. Thanks to everyone!!!!!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Kurzwell

This program is awesome!!! You can do so much to support your students. The options you have when using the program is great. I was able to use this program with one of my students this week. It was so rewarding to see the excitment on the students face. Looking forward to our class tomorrow night.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Misunderstood Minds

Really enjoyed the site. Great interaction of activities. This site helped me understand and reflect on how students may have difficulty completing a task.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Dilemmas, Challenges, and Opportunties

Enjoyed the reading. As I was reading it made me think of a number students that I work with daily.There is alot of factors that you have to take into consideration when choosing technolgy to fit the needs of your students. I am looking forward to learning all the strategies in order to support students and staff in the classroom with programming.

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