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Technology in Bilingual ASL/English Classroom

presented by

Gabrielle Jones and Rosemary Stifter

National Educational Computing Conference

San Diego, CA

July 6, 2006


Click here for a summary of the presentation in the 2006 NECC program.

Click here for html version of the PowerPoint presentation.

Click here for a pdf version of the PowerPoint presentation.

Click here for the paper of this presentation (not yet available).

Web Links from the Presentation

American Sign Language Fonts

AspireReader from Aequus Technologies

Center for Accessible Technology in Sign

Clerc Center Blogs

Clerc Center Digital Video Projects

Deafplanet.com

Digital Storytelling

The Fruit and Vegetable Alphabet game from Cheryl Briggs ( Auditory version )

Global Virtual Classroom 2005

Seeing and Hearing Speech from Sensimetrics

Bilingual Resources

Center for ASL/English Bilingual Education and Research (CAEBER)

Dr. Cummins ESL and Second Language Learning Web

Star School Project Reports

Technology Resources

Blogs

Blogger is a free, easy to use blogging tool in which you create individual or group blogs.

KidzLog
Children’s blogging tool that includes drawing tools but you cannot make comment on posts.

MoonEdit is a multi-user (up to 14 users) simultaneous text editing program. It is free and every co-author can edit the shared document at any time, from any place, and at the same time.

Weblogs: The Possibilities are Limitless! is an excellent resource for any teacher who is thinking about implementing blogs in their classroom.

Blogs & Education Resources is a web page of blogging resources that teachers can use for lesson plan ideas and examples.

Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes

Blogs in the Classroom has examples of educational blogs, including the ones shared in the presentation, and links to a variety of blog resources.

Chat rooms

Yahoo Groups You set up your own group in which you invite students to participate.

AOL Instant Messenger has a feature in which you can invite AIM members to a chat room. The chats can be saved.

msn messenger

HIP Chat Pals
offers tips, recommendations and lessons to help you start a chat pal program with middle school deaf and hard of hearing students.

Concept Mapping Software

Inspiration

SMART Ideas

Content Management Tools

School Fusion provides content management tools, interactive online calendars and individualized classroom websites for teachers to post homework, give online quizzes, and even manage grades.

Nicenet provides for free a communication tool that provides online conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments.

Moodle is a free content management system (CMS) which can be used to create an online learing community.

Digital Video

Clerc Center Digital Video Projects

WPSD Student Movies

Discussion Forums/Bulletin Boards

World Crossing is easy to set up and has controls where the teacher must approve posts before making them "live."

Quick Topic

Instructional Ideas and Forum Examples

Document Cameras

Elmo

AverMedia

Email

Gaggle Network provides free, safe, teacher-controlled email accounts for students.

Fonts

American Sign Language Fonts Yamada Learning Center of University of Oregon has some fonts you can download for free including the "Gallaudet" font.

Pocket Full of Therapy sells a Handwriting Fontware program that includes the "Fingerletters" font that is looks more like a child's hand.

Instant Messaging

Yahoo messenger

AOL Instant Messenger

msn messenger

Skype

Interactive White Boards

SMART Technologies

InterWrite Schoolboards

Mimio is a cheaper version that attaches to a white board.

Online Newspapers

CNN Student News

New York Time Learning Network Click on News Snapshot which features an interesting photo and article from The New York Times, along with the basic set of questions -- who, what, where, when, why and how.

Time for Kids

CSD-TV
Students can watch new stories reported in ASL.

Relay Services

AT&T Relay Service

MCI IP-Relay

IP-Relay VRS

Sorenson VRS

Sprint Relay Online

Sprint Video Relay Service

Test generation software

Hot Potatoes offers six applications, enabling one to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web or hard copy.

Quizstar

Quia for $49/year you can create online educational games and activities, quizzes, surveys, class web pages, schedules, and calendars.

Videoconferencing

SoarHigh Earth System Science

VC Web Videoconferencing in Deaf Education

Video Instant Messenger you will need a web cam and activate the video feature in your AIM.

Microsoft NetMeeting Download the free software, buy a webcam, find someone else who has the same stuff and you are ready to videoconference.

msn messenger video conversation

Polycom VSX 7000

Web pages

Backyard Animals

Global Virtual Classroom Contest

NVU is a free web editor that is easy to use.

Teacherweb.com allows you to post homework assignments, announcements, and materials with a click of the button.

Trackstar
Track Star is a free service which allows you create a web site using their online template.

 

WebQuests

The WebQuest Page has a wealth of information about creating your own WebQuests and you can look at examples that are grouped by content and grade level.

InstantWebQuest is a web based software for creating WebQuests in a short time. When you use InstantWebQuest, you will not need any of writing HTML code or using any web editor software. InstantWebQuest creates all the necessary files and puts them into the server free.

phpWebQuest is free educational software for writing WebQuests in a short time.

Teacherweb.com has free tools to create a WebQuest.

 

 

     
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