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Make the Most of Your Mac: Meeting Diverse Learner Needs (Williamson, Dianna)

Description: Explore the built-in tools on every Mac that help address the diverse needs of every student in your class. Learn tips for keeping students organized and on task, ways of improving literacy skills, and ideas for supporting English Language Learners.
Speaker: Williamson, Dianna
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Session: 7 - Saturday, 11:00 am -12:00 pm
Session Code: 3073 - Apple
Type: Commercial
Audience: New, Beginning, Intermediate, Experienced
Grade Level: Pre K - 12
Curricular / Topic: TL /
Room & Location: Mesquite C / Palm Springs Convention Center
Blog Tag: CUE08S3073 (Technorati Search) (Google Search)

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Permalink Reply by Dianna Williamson on February 10, 2008 at 12:41pm: Imagine a tool that uses students’ unique learning strengths and provide scaffolds
for their learning weaknesses, actually building their learning capacity over
time.
Meet Mac OS X. Every teacher, parent and student can make use of the rich features and applications for differentiation with Mac OS X.
Download this Getting Started Guide to Apple Technology for Diverse Learners written by Apple Distinguished Educators representing over 20 years of teaching experience. Learn how to set up Mac features and applications to meet diverse learner needs including language and learning differences as well as vision, hearing and physical motor differences.
Read learner profiles which include helpful tips for supporting all learners regardless of learning styles and needs.
Select from Mac OS X Leopard or Tiger Getting Started Guide below.
To learn more, point your browser to the following resources:

Apple Learning Interchange exhibit Meeting Diverse Learner Needs

Apple Education Accessibility website: http://www.apple.com/education/accessibility/index.html; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dianna Williamson on February 10, 2008 at 2:20pm

Leopard - Getting Started Guide: Apple Technology for Diverse Learners

Attachments:

LeopardDiverseLearnersBooklet.pdf, 5.6 MB

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Permalink Reply by Jennie Malonek on March 13, 2008 at 8:38am: Diana
I can't find the automater script you showed us
Is it in the pdf? If not could you post it or e-mail it to me?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dianna Williamson on March 13, 2008 at 10:36am: Hi,

Visit the Apple Learning Interchange exhibit Meeting Diverse Learner Needs to learn more about the essential tools, view presentation videos, and even download the Automator workflow to convert text to speech. NOTE: This workflow application is designed for use with TextEdit.

Best of luck!
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