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== = Welcome to OAISD's AT Resources! =

**__New Accessibility Resources__**
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 * Google just announced Google Connected Classrooms , which allows classes to take virtual field trips using Google+ Hangouts.  Field Trip locations include the Seattle Aquarium, Minnesota Zoo, American Museum of Natural History, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and more. More trips are coming also.   The field trips are live hosted events, but past events are archived and can be viewed later. Teachers can also work together on plans and activities.   This is a great resource for teachers and students to be able to learn and explore without ever leaving the classroom.
 * ** iReadWrite App ** now available. $20 [[file:ireadwrite_handout.pdf]]
 * **Bookshare resources** for use on their new tools: Bookshelf and Bookshare Web Reader.
 * ** Recordium ** is a new iPad and iPhone for creating audio recordings. Recordium can be used to quickly create a spoken note or to record someone playing an instrument. Recordium can be used to . You can trim the end or beginning of a recording, snip out a middle portion of a recording and save it as a separate recording or trash it. The app allows you to highlight and tag portions of your recordings, including pictures. Completed recordings can be shared to a number of services including Google Drive and Evernote
 * **SoundGator** - website with free, downloadable environmental sounds

__Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities__
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 * === Friday, January 24, 2014 - PODD Overview at Clinton RESA, St. Johns. Registration is open to attendees from all regions. Limited to 50 participants. ===
 * === **(Mi)2 will present a pre-confererence institute at MCTM in 2014.** ===


 * === **(Mi)2 will offer a Facilitator Institute for the course Enhancing Mathematics Instruction for Students with Learning Difficulties, addressing expressions and equations in the middle grades, in June 2014. For up to date information on opportunities, visit the website (mi2.cenmi.org) and register for our newsletter (info@misquared.org).** ===

> ===The Michigan Innovative Schools Conference will foster the critical conversations necessary to address the urgency for education change. Key note speaker is === > ===Michael Horn, of the Innosight Group and co-author of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns === > ===Key themes in this conference include: Blended Learning, Project Based Learning, Enhanced Dual Enrollment and Early College High Schools, Tiered Intervention programs. the conference is held on December 11, 2013 at The Kellogg Center at Michigan State University For more information, visit:https://www.regonline.com/MichiganInnovativeSchools ===
 * ===** Region 1 will be hosting Brian Bennett on April 22, 2014 for a training on Flipping Your Classroom. This training will be open to anyone. More information will following. **===
 * === There is an ASD series coming up, a free webinar series on edWeb: http://www.edweb.net/autism. ===
 * === **AbleNet University webinars, vendor rep from Avaz webinar, presenting at the U.P. special education conference in February.** ===
 * ===__**Michigan Innovative Schools Conference **__===
 * === __**West Michigan Educational Leaderships Conference**__ held at KISD on November 12th from 8-2:30. Topics will cover a variety of strands, including Diverse Learners, CCSS, School Improvement, Educational Technology and More! Here is the link that will take you to the flier https://nexus.oaisd.org/service/home/~/13DV1112%20West%20Michigan%20ELC%20Flyer.pdf?auth=co&loc=en_US&id=56057&part=2 ===
 * __ **MI Moodle Moot** **2014** __ will be held on Friday, January 10, 2014 at Mid Michigan Community College's Doan Center in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The purpose of the event is to bring educators together from K-12 and higher ed, to model how to better use Moodle to blend instruction as well as to support teaching and learning. Preconference workshops will be held on Thursday, January 9, 2014.
 * **__Fall conference session__-** October 11th in Marquette: Rethinking Your Role On The Assistive Technology Team.
 * __**Susan Stokes presenting:**__ Navigating the World of Assistive Technology for Students with Autism. November 19th Traverse Bay Area ISD. Broadcast to other region locations. Registration is still open! http://www.solutionwhere.com/tbaremc2/showsourse.asp?1168
 * **__ATIA conference__**-January 29- February 1, 2014 will be held in Orlando, FL at the Caribe Royale All-Suites. Up to 26 hours of Continuing Education Units available! Many conference sessions are hands-on, so bring your mobile device-iPad, tablet, or laptop.
 * **[|Tim Childers]** is a middle school teacher in Tennessee who has been steadily creating **free ed tech tutorial videos**. The videos are available on Tim's YouTube channel **[|Coffee Time Edu].**
 * === **The Student Guide to iPads & iOS6 **- a free iBook.Article posted on iPad Apps for School by Richard Byrne ===
 * AssisTechKnow conference - October 3 & 4, 2013 will be held at Kent ISD, but is being hosted by Regional 3 AT group. The conference will be 2 days this year, with the option to sign up for just one day, or both. Register for October 3 and/or October 4, 2013. [[file:Assist TechKnow Enrollment Form.pdf]]Presentation Proposals are due May 1, 2013.
 * **ATIA Webinars**
 * **Closing the Gap Webinars**
 * **Just In Time Professional Learning** - iPad course available through iTunes U, free.
 * ** AbleNet Webinars ** are free! Switch Mounting, Computer Access, Making Choices, Visual Helping Social Skills, Positioning are just some of the topics.
 * **MITS Archived Webinars** - MITS Freedom Stick Overview and the iPod Touch iPad Overview
 * **LearnPort - Assistive Technology** - Online Professional Development training modules.

__Professional Reference__

 * **Using Twitter for PD**
 * **Using Twitter for Teachers' Professional Development -** Posted in **Educational Technology and Mobile Learning**
 * **The Best 15 Twitter Hashtags for Teachers -** Posted in** Educational Technology and Mobile Learning**
 * **Quixey**- A new search engine for apps that monitors blogs, tweets, review sites, and articles in order to find out what each app can do. You search by type of device and free vs. paid, or by a function, such as Text to Speech, Enlargement, or Augmentative and Alternative Communication.