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Simplified Technology for Children With Disabilities
This site provides easy to follow directions to make a talking switch and a mouse house. A concise definition of augmentative communication devices is also provided.
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K12 Handhelds: Getting Started With Mobile Technology
A good place to visit if you're just getting started with handhelds. Includes advice on what to consider when choosing a handheld and links to various categories of education-oriented handheld software. Make sure to check out the list of...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Car for Blind Drivers
Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a "self-driving" car, he's careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed,...
National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Searchable database of the NIDCD, one of the Institutes of the National Institutes of Health (Federal Government). Covers a wide range of hearing related topics/research.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Able Sports
This activity focuses on getting the students to think about disabilities and how they can make some aspects of life more difficult. The students are asked to pick a disability and design a new kind of sport for it.
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The Iris Center: Universal Design for Learning
This resource examines the three principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and discusses how to apply these principles to the four curricular components (i.e., goals, instructional materials, instructional methods, and assessments).
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Pda Today
PDAToday focuses on daily news, shopping, and commentary about cool new gadgets and PDA's. Their primary audience is people who are curious about mobile technology as well as the growing number of regular people who are starting to use...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Making a Name Cup
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart assists educators in creating fun ways to incorporate technology into the classroom, while promoting participation on the students part.
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K12 Handhelds: 101 Great Educational Uses for Your Handheld Computer
This site provides a list of uses for your classroom PDAs. If you have the technology, look for new ways to use it.
NASA
Nasa: Space Place: Taking the Search Out of Search and Rescue
Learn how search and rescue is assisted by the use of mapping technology and satellites.
Computer Hope
Computer Hope: What Jobs Are Being Taken Over by Robots and Computers?
A list of jobs that were replaced, and are being replaced or assisted by robots and computers.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aries
The battering-ram, was used to batter down the walls of besieged cities. It consisted of a large beam, made of the trunk of a tree, especially of a fir or an ash. To one end was fastened a mass of bronze or iron, which resembled in its...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fruit Gathering Monkeys
Monkeys appear to have been trained to assist in gathering fruit; and the Egyptians represent them in the sculptures handing down figs from the trees to the gardeners below; but, as might be expected, these animals amply repaid...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Wine Press
An Ancient Egyptian Wine-press. The process of treading, which seems to have prevailed from the earliest ages. The treaders are being assisted by ropes fixed to the roof of the press. - Chambers, 1881
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Count De Grasse
(1723-1788) French military leader that assisted with the Revolutionary war
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Daniel Butterfield
Daniel Adams Butterfield (October 31, 1831 - July 17, 1901) was a New York businessman, a Union General in the American Civil War, and Assistant U.S. Treasurer in New York.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: David Dale Owen
David Dale Owen was the third son of Robert Owen, a Welsh reformer. He did the first offical state geological surveys of Indiana, Kentucky, and Arkansas. It is likely that David Dale became interested in geology because of his father's...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Alexander S. Webb
General Webb, born in New York city, February 15th, 1835, was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1855, and assigned to the artillery. He served in Florida, Minnesota, and for three years as assistant professor at West...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Rufus King
General King, born in New York city, January 26th, 1814, died there, October 13th, 1876, was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1833, and appointed to the Engineer Corps. He resigned from the army, September 30th, 1836,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was a journalist and became assistant editor of the "Northern Spectator." Greeley also founded the "New York Tribune" in 1841.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Milton Hay
John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 - July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe (mid-1320s - 31 December 1384) was an English theologian, translator and reformist. Wycliffe was an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. He is considered the founder of the Lollard movement,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea)
(1742-1807) A Mohawk who held a colonel's commission from the King. After the revolution he returned from England to assist the Mohawk people.
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