Top Affordable Technologies for Helping Students in Middle School through College:
Part 1: Organization, Attention and Executive Functioning
Part 2: Improve Reading and Writing
Part 3: Enhance new learning with free online tools and iPad apps
Join Joan Green, a speech-language pathologist with many years of experience and a special interest in assistive technologies, for this recorded 3- part webinar series to learn more about using Mac and PC computers, ios devices such as the iPad, additional devices such as the Livescribe Pen and online sites.
The hour long presentations are appropriate for students , their parents, teachers and tutors and other therapists and educators who would like to take advantage of mainstream affordable cutting-edge technologies to enhance academic success. Material will be presented that is appropriate for helping students in middle school through college.
Learn to:
- Enhance planning and organization with digital calendars, to do lists, reminders and alarms
- Have text read aloud to speed up processing and improve retention of information
- Record audio as you take notes with a special pen, Mac or a tablet
- Take advantage of the "cloud" and learn about online bookmarking and organizational tools such as Dropbox and Evernote
- Learn about supplemental learning tools such as drill and practice apps, online flashcards and online video tutorials
- Improve spelling and grammar with drill and practice apps and sites as well as spell and grammar checking assistance
- Learn to use speech recognition and word prediction programs as well as mind mapping/ brainstorming tools to help with written expression.
Each webinar is $25.00.
After purchasing your ticket, within 24 hours you will receive a link to view the webinar and a pdf attachment which is the handout for the webinar. You will be given your own credentials (user name and password) for log in. The recordings can be viewed from any PC or Mac. They can not be viewed from an iPad.
Your credit card will not be billed until the end of the month when this "event" is technically finished.
