♥My Website♥

Well, I finally finished my website, most of which I owe to Cody....so thank you!!! For the longest time, I had no clue what I was doing, but I finally got the hang of it. From then on, it was actually kind of fun! I never realized how difficult it was to create a website, but I actually enjoyed learning how. Anyway, I hope everyone is having a great week so far, and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend as well!!
~Lindsay♥

Web Sites

I know that this has been said a thousand times but I will say it again... There are some great web sites that are geared towards education and kids! There I said it... Now I want to tell you about a few, first there is a site that is a kid friendly search engine called Dibdabdoo. Check it out if you get a chance. Also there are tons of web sites dedicated to lesson plans and helping teachers. Check these out...
Cyber Bee
Braille Bug The Braille Bug Web site for children was developed by the American Foundation for the Blind with the hope that children will not only learn about Braille but also increase their understanding of people with disabilities.
Education World This site has tons of information and lists of good web sites.

"Best of the Education Blog" Awards

Awards are now being given to students and educators for their blogs.
This article discusses the affects of blogging for educators and students. This is extremely relevant to what we are doing in this class. Read about it here.

Speech-to-Text Translation Technology

A fast developing technology to help deaf students in lectures is a computer aided speech-to-text translation. Basically a trained person types the teachers lecture and comments into a laptop using a shorthand code. Then the special software translates the code and text appears on the screen or on the students personal laptop. This process takes about 3 seconds. These notes can be saved so they can be studied in the future. Click
here to learn more about it.