Marissa+Hyman

Technology should be integrated into all classrooms. In order for this to happen, administrators need to find the time and money to properly train educators to effectively use technology in their classrooms. Technology can be used to differentiate instruction for students with disabilites, gifted students, and low and high achieving students. Assistive technology is another way for technology to be integrated into classrooms. Assistive technology will allow individual students to access the curriculum. The technology that can be used ranges from low tech to high tech and differs in price and availablity. Educators should chose the appropriate technology based on student needs, not price.
 * My Technology Philosophy**


 * Technology Integration/Assistive Technology Websites for Teachers**

http://www.4teachers.org/ This website is a great online resource for teachers. It offers online tools and resources to teachers that will help integrate technology into the classroom. Also, it includes assessments, sucess stories, and tutorials. I think this would be most beneficial to a teacher who is just beginning to integrate technology into her classroom and needs help getting started.

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic76.htm This website offers tons of different tutorials for technology users. It also offers technology tips, integration ideas, and tutorials. This website would be great for teachers looking for programs to use with their students. The teacher can actually go through the tutorial and decide whether or not a specific program would work effectively in her classroom.

http://www.wtvi.com/TEKS/ This website was developed by Wesley Fryer. He created the webpage to help teachers, grades k-high school, integrate technology in their classrooms. It offers teachers both educational tools and information that is user freindly. He links his site to many other websites which is very helpful. Although this is a personal website, it appears to offer teachers many great resources and ideas for using technology in the classroom.

http://www.intel.com/education/?cid=cim:ggl|education_us_brand|k9E0F|s The intel website gives teachers information for professional development. It shows them upcoming opportunities they offer for increasing teacher knowledge of technology use in the classroom. It also has programs teachers and students can use.

http://fno.org/mar98/flotilla.html This website tells teachers how to have a WIRED classroom. It pushes teachers to let students become responsible for their own learning by using instruction that is student centered and hands on. It explains what a WIRED classroom is and what a technology centered classroom looks like. This would be a great website for a teacher who is already comfortable with technology and who uses it regularly in the classroom and is interested in creating a technology centered classroom.


 * Literacy Websites for Students**

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/month2month.htm* This is a great website for student math games. The games are seperated by both the computer skills students will need to able to use and also the math category. The games offer support in number recognition, shapes, colors, numeral counting, number oder, and more. This is a great website for students to use because it is user friendly and fun.

http://www.east-haven.k12.ct.us/dcmoore/edulinks2.html This is a good website because it gives links to many other websites that have games children can play in various content areas. There are literacy and math games, and other search engines for students and teachers to use.

http://www.geocities.com/sgaer/hotpotatoes/ This website has great games for ESL learners. The games are mostly literacy and vocabulary, but there are a few math games. There are also online flashcards, a wordsearch, and a section of links for low beginning students. This would be a great resource for ESL teachers and also for general education teachers. These would be great games for ESL students to use during literacy times.


 * Assistive Technology Devices**

[|L*E*O - //L//anguage and //E//CU in //O//ne!][|Mercury II™ and Mercury II SGD] [|MiniMerc™ and MiniMerc SGD] [|LinkCLASSIC™ and LinkPLUS™] [|Communication and Access Solutions]


 * Assistive Technology Software**

[|Stages Math: Number Sense] [|Stages] [|Stages Report Wizard] [|Stages Curriculum Bundles] [|Charts Online] [|AT Profile] [|EvaluWare] [|Functionally Speaking]


 * Articles**

Using Technology to Enhance the Writing Processes of Students with Learning Disabilities //by Charles A. McArthur// http://www.startechprogram.org/technology/usingtech.html#|http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/technology/tech_writing.html I would recommend this website for other teachers because it looks at how one teacher guided her writing instruction based on a student's disability. Examples of student work have been included to explicitly show what the student's work looked like and also the progress that he made. It also discusses the critical issues of using assistive technology.

Universal Design for Learning //by David Rose and Anne Meyer// http://www.startechprogram.org/technology/usingtech.html#|http://jset.unlv.edu/15.1/asseds/rose.html This webiste talks about UDL. It gives a definition and gives examples of how things can be created considering UDL. It examines the issues of UDL and offers a history. Although we have learned about UDL in class, this article is a great resource for other educators that aren't familiar with UDL and also provide information that can be used in the future.

In the future, I hope to get a lot more training in assistive technology. I would love to be able to go to conferences or technology classes as my professional development. I don't feel that I have a lot of knowledge about specific technology devices and I will need to learn about them in order to be able to help my students use them. I want to have a proficient understanding of assistive technology so I can put it to daily use with students.
 * My Plan to Improve My Knowledge of Assistive Technology**

Wikispaces can be an important communication tool in K-12 classrooms. Teachers can post resources, homework assignments, articles, and have message boards to communicate with students. It can be used both in class and outside of class as an organizational tool. Students can post homework assignments and share them with their peers. This facilitates conversations between students and also between students and teachers. Teachers can have class assignments posted throughout so students can be looking ahead and planning thier time effectively.
 * How K-12 Teachers Can Use WIkispaces**

I can sustain homepage content in the future by updating this page with new information as I learn more about assistive technology in the future. This might be through professional development or hands on learning in my own classroom.
 * Sustaning Homepage Content**