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Global Connections in Education 2008

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About Me - What you should know about me...
I am a tidy freak, and a lover of multicultural worlds, learning about languages, food, religion and lifestyles of different people living in the seven continents....
Reading is my medication and I enjoy green tea....
I am on my way to PhD this fall, hopefully! YaY!!!
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female
What is your favorite food?
Chinese and Italian
What is your favorite type of music? Who is your favorite musician?
Soft music
What is your favorite place? why?
London
What is your favorite holiday? why?
Turks and Caicos

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Clicker 5?

I am not sure how Clicker and can be used in Deaf education? Can anyone give me a suggestion?

Posted on May 14, 2008 at 4:38pm —

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Opinions on Inspiration and Kidspiration

To be honest, I am speechless with this invention and keep thinking how many things we can do with Inspiration family!

Inspiration and Kidspirations are an amazing group of invention from Inspiration Softwares and are excellent builders of critical thinking, organizers of thoughts and feelings, platforms for videos and html texts, and guards of ideas and images. All of them can create a story in the minds of deaf children and the educators can learn a lot from the impact of Inspiration and Kids… Continue

Posted on May 14, 2008 at 4:36pm —

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My Opinions on Intellitools and Kurzweill 3000

Intellitools and Kurzweill 3000 are good for the deaf children with multiple disabilities and who need to access the curriculum within multiple representations and engagement means. I am thinking of how Kurzweill can be a good example for a deaf college student with ADHD; if he is so hyper, he can sit and watch the text being highlighted one by one and he can select whatever the colors captivate him and set it as the text background.

Intellitools are good for those deaf children with deficienci… Continue

Posted on May 14, 2008 at 4:07pm —

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My Opinions on I Communicator and Writing With Symbols

With both a deaf and educator perspective, I post my personal opinions on the rest of softwares to be used in Deaf education as listed below:

ICommunicator:

ICommunicator is good for educating the deaf children who come from South America, Cuba, China, and the developing countries to learn American Sign Language, and to develop strengths in reading English sentence and picking words to form a sentence, but not many deaf children who are already born in the USA and exposed to ASL on natu… Continue

Posted on May 14, 2008 at 4:00pm —

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Softwares Review- Part C-Accessibility Designs being met?

I reviewed the accessibility designs of each software application with the accessibility checklist as mentioned in the first blog.
I have to check which rating would be applied to each technical standard labled A to H for all individual softwares. The rating as per JHU's accessibility checklist are: Meets Criteria, Does Not Meet Criteria, Requires Instructional Alternative and Not Applicable.… Continue

Posted on May 14, 2008 at 4:00pm —

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At 1:36pm on May 3, 2008, Sarah McPherson said…
Zarahusain, Sorry to have asked twice. Sometimes it's difficult to navigate this ning. Congratulations in your almost finishing.
At 10:00pm on May 2, 2008, Sarah McPherson said…
I did not got your reply about where you are studying.
At 8:57pm on March 5, 2008, Sarah McPherson said…
Nice to meet you, Zarahusain. I'm curious where you are studying?
 
 
 

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