3D printers are still new in the consumer technology market, but 3D printers have huge potential to help the blind and visually impaired. T...
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Google I/O Just Around The Corner
Friday, April 26, 2013
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Google's I/O conference kicks off in just under a month on May 15. I/O is Google's largest conference and usually comes with softw...
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Apple To Preview Updated OS X and iOS at WWDC Likely With New Accessibility Features
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
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Today Apple announced that they will hold their annual WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) on June 10th at the Moscone West in San Fran...
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Amara Free Crowd Sourced Captioning For YouTubers
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A service called Amara allows YouTubers to get crowd sourced help captioning their videos. Millions of people, particularly those with heari...
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Proloquo2Go 3.0 Coming Soon With Exciting New Features
Monday, April 22, 2013
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Proloquo2Go 3.0 is coming soon according the maker AssistiveWare. If you are unfamiliar with Proloquo2Go click here for background informa...
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Use Guided Access for iOS to Safely Lend Your Phone to Friends
Sunday, April 21, 2013
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Has someone ever asked to borrow your iPhone to call home, but then went through your personal information? Hopefully not, but it has happe...
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iReadWrite iPad App: Word Processing For Struggling Writers
Saturday, April 20, 2013
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iReadWrite is an iPad writing app that is designed to benefit struggling readers and writers. iReadWrite includes a number of writing feat...
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What are the qualities of a good educational technology trainer?
Whilst in the process of designing a unit of online learning I started thinking about the qualities and skills that a good educational techn...
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Criteria for Evaluating Web Tools and Apps
Saturday, April 6, 2013
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I'm often getting asked what my criteria are for choosing the tools, apps and resources that I feature on my blogs and in my teaching an...
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