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As we all get ready to go back to school, especially with either the reality or potentiality of teaching virtually from a distance, many of us are having to...
Virtual Graduation
Our school, the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, is a residential school like many state schools for the blind and visually...
In times like this in society, the visually impaired community needs a way to remain socially distant yet a way to communicate with people in their daily lives...
Using Screen Readers in Google Classrooms
This post is related to a previous post Learning Management Systems in the Age of Pandemic. Our school decided to use...
Learning Management Systems for the BVI in the Age of Pandemic
With the new forced paradigm in this world of distance learning, our school, like almost every...
Since our state has moved to remote learning while all public schools are closed for a minimum of three weeks because of the Coronavirus, students have had to...
As a vision teacher/Orientation & Mobility Specialist working for a private non-profit agency, I have had the opportunity to work with several virtual...
A common struggle for students with limited motor skills (gross and/ or fine) is meeting the expectation of using a laptop in a 1:1 Chromebook school. There...
For the last few days, I haven't left my dorm very much. But during that time, I have been able to do the following:
Read a virtual library book on George...
Yesterday at my internship, I was watching someone set up my computer when I noticed that there appeared to be no icons on my computer's home screen. This...
Sam is a tech support agent at the Microsoft Disability Answer Desk, where he answers calls from customers who are blind or have low-vision calling through the...
Remote Desktop Computer Lab Management Software
When I became a TVI teaching technology, I was assigned a computer lab/classroom, teaching various basic...
This week, I attended the Lousiana Association of Computer Using Educators (LACUE). The contrast to the APH conference I attended last year was marked; even...
Since the start of my freshman year at my university, I have taken over a dozen online classes- read more about why and how in my post about virtual college...
Facebook is a popular free social networking website where people can create profiles, share information, share photos and respond to information posted by...
The other day I was helping a student of mine get her Refreshabraille 18 braille display paired up to her computer. She has used it to pair with her iPhone...
I spend a lot of time on the internet browsing dozens of different websites every day. I read blogs, informative websites, government websites, websites for...
In a previous article on Windows 10 accessibility settings, I alluded to downloading large mouse pointers for Windows 10. This article will expand on that...
Are you experiencing jerky movements or jumping around the screen when using Magnifier with the Windows 10 update? The Windows 10 Fall Creators update has two...
My second semester of freshman year in high school (which was in January 2012), I received approval to start using a laptop in the classroom. I had an IEP for...
Welcome to my new series on choosing technology, where I will be sharing my tips on purchasing devices, with a special concentration on students with low...
During my sophomore year of high school, teachers constantly were forgetting to enlarge my assignments (a little more on that here), leaving me to figure out...
Welcome to my new series on choosing technology, where I will be sharing my tips on purchasing devices, with a special concentration on students with low...
Ever since it was first released in 2015, I have found myself using Microsoft Office Sway for many projects in college- at least once every semester. It's...
I remember when Barnes and Noble first announced they would be selling their own eReader, the Nook. The other eReaders on the market at the time had small...
At both high schools I attended, teachers often took a pencil-and-paper approach to learning. It was common for teachers to have students complete paper...
On June 23rd, TextGrabber by ABBYY was updated with some new features as well as bug fixes. As an app promotion, it was free for a limited time, but is now...
In a typical classroom, the majority of the teacher’s lessons are projected in front of the entire class. This is great! Unless, you are student who has low...
Coding is a lifestyle. In today's digital society there are literally thousands of resources to learn the craft. Whether it be the code that controls the stuff...
Here are settings to enable for the iPad/iPhone to help make the devices easier to use. All are found in the accessibility menu under general settings unless...
Often when discussing my job with friends, I talk about emails, not specific emails mind you, just the active daily duty of emailing. At my rehabilitation...
It’s Springtime and that can only mean one thing, spring flowers, right? Not in the school systems. Springtime in the school systems means standardized...
My name is Neal Mckenzie and I work as an assistive technology specialist for the office of education in the mostly beautiful Sonoma County. I am an Assistive...
Classrooms are using on-line educational resources and textbooks. How does this impact students who are visually impaired who can not visually access pictures...
In this series, we will be discussing the accessibility of on-line MAP growth assessment.
As our classrooms transition to digital textbooks and on-line...
Then ...
The look of horror on my wife's face said it all. "How much did that cost?!" she exclaimed, as I unboxed my the iMac 24inch computer, to which I...
Hampus Sethfors, an Accessibility and User Experience Expert, has performed hundreds of accessibility audits. He found that no one intentionally builds...
In digital classrooms with 1:1 iPads, the Apple Classroom enables teachers to monitor and manipulate multiple iPads in his/her classroom remotely. This...
