Tag Archives: Web links
TarHeel Reader Books: A great resource for iBooks on your iPad
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning, Tips and Tricks
Barbara Landsberg December 8, 2011
Barbara Landsberg December 8, 2011
As the Spectronics consultancy team travel around Australia and New Zealand, they are often asked about how to create customised books and bookshelves on the iPad. Books which students can read in self-selected reading time or just for their own enjoyment. Jane Farrall, Spectronics’ Senior Speech Pathologist, recently wrote a helpful guide which steps you through the process of creating books for the iPad, …
Weally Wonderful Websites V8.0
Posted in Web links
Gerry Kennedy December 6, 2011
Gerry Kennedy December 6, 2011
Weally Wonderful Websites has been updated for the last time in 2011. It has grown to 85 A4 pages in length with new sites added to 75% of the document. Once again I thank people who have contributed especially to Lee Blunt, Greg Alchin and Steven Jurgeit. Please share it on listservs, Twitter Feeds and email it on to colleagues and especially parents. Download …
Universal Access to Web Browsers
Posted in Tools & Resources
Gerry Kennedy November 21, 2011
Gerry Kennedy November 21, 2011
1. Introduction As per critical software for users with different access and learning needs, the web browser is most definitely one of the most important. Students now spend so much of their time online inside a browser. When they are on social media sites, chatting, searching, researching and collecting data, emailing, shopping, banking, reading the news, sports, entertainment sections, downloading music and watching videos …
TarHeel Reader Books – a great resource for iBooks on your iPad
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning, Tips and Tricks
Jane Farrall November 17, 2011
Jane Farrall November 17, 2011
Over the past few weeks I have presented quite a few workshops where I have talked about making custom bookshelves within iBooks for self-selected reading time – or just for making a range of books available for students to enjoy! One of the resources I have been using to contribute to custom bookshelves is TarHeel Reader books, imported into iBooks. TarHeel Reader, as I’ve …
Weally Wonderful Websites V7.0
Posted in Web links
Gerry Kennedy November 15, 2011
Gerry Kennedy November 15, 2011
The recently updated November issue of the Weally Wonderful Websites V7.0 document has filled out to 76 x A4 pages of web sites, resources and links to a number of categories that cater to students with different learning, access and communication needs. Significant updates to a number of sections on Teacher Resources ( many thanks to Lee Blunt for some absolutely wonderful teaching and …
Weally Wonderful Websites V6.6
Posted in Web links
Gerry Kennedy October 26, 2011
Gerry Kennedy October 26, 2011
The Weally Wonderful Websites V6.6 document, in MS Word, has filled out to 67 x A4 pages of web sites, resources and links to a number of categories that cater to students with different learning, access and communication needs. Sections on eBooks, iPad/iPod resources and others have been updated from Version 6.0. About 50 more sites have been added with approximately 500 or more …
Weally Wonderful Websites V6.0
Posted in Web links
Gerry Kennedy September 23, 2011
Gerry Kennedy September 23, 2011
The Weally Wonderful Websites document is now available as Version 6.0. It has run to 62 A4 pages and has a new category – Web 2.0 tools. Other sections have been updated with about 30 new entries. Please let others know and add a comment (if you wish) or post a question. Adding to Facebook and to Twitter and other feeds alerts other colleagues …
Weally Wonderful Websites V5.4
Posted in Web links
Gerry Kennedy September 9, 2011
Gerry Kennedy September 9, 2011
The Weally Wonderful Websites document has grown to 58 pages in length. The last two versions (5.0 and 5.2) used yellow, and then blue highlighting to show where new websites were added to assist previous readers to locate new and updated content. Download Weally Wonderful Websites (MS Word docx 2.1 MB) – If you don’t have Microsoft Word, you can download a free Microsoft …
Weally Wonderful Websites
Posted in Web links
Gerry Kennedy August 19, 2011
Gerry Kennedy August 19, 2011
Here is the latest version 5 of my Weally Wonderful Websites document. Download Weally Wonderful Websites (MS Word docx 1.9 MB) – If you don’t have Microsoft Word, you can download a free Microsoft Word viewer. It has some updated areas and new sections all denoted with yellow highlighting – as distinct from resources listed in V4.2. I hope that it proves to be …
TarHeel Reader – a fabulous literacy resource for ALL
Posted in Permanent Resources, Tools & Resources, Web links
Jane Farrall August 15, 2011
Jane Farrall August 15, 2011
I strongly believe that everyone has the right to learn to read and write and it is our role to make sure that every student we work with develops the best literacy skills possible. As part of this we need to have high interest texts on topics of their choice available to all the students we work with – so that they can read …
