Meagan FulkersonNorth Ridge Middle

meagan.fulkerson@birdvilleschools.net817-547-5236

Microsoft

Teacher Resources

This document is a curriculum resource for educators on the use of the PC for students with disabilities and differing learning styles. It describes how the PC can be personalized for students with learning style differences or physical disabilities that impact the way they learn or use a computer.

AccessibilityCurriculum Resources for SPED

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/education/

Microsoft Live Lessons Demo (Example Skype)

http://www.microsoft.com/education/ww/teachers/Pages/index.aspx

Microsoft Educator Network 1000’s of teacher made lessons and ideas Plus discussion boards and other resources

Microsoft Word

• Helps students who struggle with hand writing • Allows us LDs/OHIs to write as we think and

then make the corrections to conform requirements

• For a few it can help in the administration of the STAAR test, for many it will help lead the way to better written expression on paper

Disable Spell Check and Thesaurus

You can disable these features inWord, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, and

Visio, InfoPath, OneNote, SharePoint Designer, FrontPage and a few more…

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937422

Other Notables

http://www.nearpod.com/how-it-works/

Free NearPodControl your classroom I pads to give presentations or do a group interactive

http://download.cnet.com/Express-Scribe/3000-7239_4-10060252.html

Free Express ScribeYou will need the professional version for playing proprietary formats

including DSS, DS2, MVF and video file transcription.

Audacity audio recorder already installed on all computers in the district

Fluency You can do some of your fluency tests all at once and have an audio record

that is great for keeping record of progress!

Alternative TestingHave students give verbal responses or readings instead of pen and paper test.

Audio Info In my room some kids have oral reading for passages and some do not in some cases. In order

to administer to both groups simultaneously the students receiving oral administrationprerecorded version I recorded.

Record Stories with directions to worksheets included! It doesn’t have to be you or your aide it can be drama, volunteers, older students…

I once had kids record their own stories and then make worksheets. Then we exchanged.

RAPS and memory games using the students voices!

Student Mixes are fun too!

Alamo Projecthttp://www.thealamo.org/

Combines TEKS media and web concepts with history TEKSStudents answer a packet with question and follow it with a scavenger hunt

13 Days of Glory 1.)When did Santa Anna and his troops arrive?2.)What happened on the 13th day

Women and Children Who was Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson?

NOW

1.)go to the home page

2.)click on virtual tour on the right hand side

3.)Find the following places

I am where the men slept

Relaxing by the water…. (Not a lake or Ocean!

PBS Bite Size http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/

• Other GREAT Websiteshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies

http://www.gamequarium.com/geometry.htmlhttp://www.e-learningforkids.org/language-arts/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/tour-solar-system.html

http://www.brainpop.com/

https://padlet.com/my/dashboard

http://kidblog.org/home/http://www.primarygames.com/reading.php

http://www.starfall.com/

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

CPALMS• http://www.cpalms.org/Public/

Survey Link

• http://schools.birdvilleschools.net/surveys