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I have been married to Dennis for 36 years and we have four great kids...or perhaps I should say our four children are young adults. Both of our sons have music degrees and one is a teacher. The other son has a government job. My daughters have science degrees. One is in nursing and my youngest daughter is a Physical Education teacher. My family is my greatest joy in life and although they have their seperate lives, we often gather together and either celebrate a special occassion or just enjoy each other's company. Both Dennis and I are teachers and even though Dennis is retired, he still is and always will be a teacher at heart. Professionally, both Dennis and I agree one of the most rewarding pleasures is seeing our students grow both academically and as a person.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Education 5173

Education 5173 has ended. I am looking forward to a well deserved break. I met so many great people in this course; I am sad to say 'Good Bye'. I hope we will meet again!
Education 5173 was a very demanding but rewarding experience. We explored many forms of assistive technology in the 12 days at Acadia University.
  1. Blogging: Something new to me but I must admit, once I became comfortable with the technology, it was a great tool for communicating our daily activities. It was a lot of fun to play with the features of the application; uploading our pictures and videos and viewing the perspective of others on a topic was great.
  2. The iPod Touch is an amazing tool. Using the program Proloqu2Go, we checked out several APPs that could be utilized in our schools. That was a fun activity and I am sure I will use this in my classroom next year.
  3. Social script videos were great! Writing the script, shooting the video and editing with our group was a very enjoyable activity. I loved watching the movies produced by the other groups. It was a blast!
  4. Visiting the Dollar Store and choosing items that were converted to 'low tech' assistive technology was an eye opener. The creativity in our class was evident after viewing these presentations.
  5. Boardmaker was a challenging but rewarding tool. I spent many hours learning the various components of its application.

5173 was a great course. I hate to say 'Good-Bye'. Thanks Barb and fellow classmates. It was an enjoyable and rewarding experience!

Using the iPod

The iPod has so many interesting components. Follow the link above to view a video on an interesting feature of this technology. The iPod can be used in the theatres to read the subtitles of the movies. What a great assistive technology tool for the hearing impaired. Not only will it read the subtitles but one can pick the language of your choice. Awesome! You've got to love technology!


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  1. Lorraine AT courseJuly 20, 2010 at 6:25 PM

    Congrats on finishing in high style Marnee. Agree that we learned lots and I will be telling my brother about that feature on the ipodtouch. He used closed captioning a great deal and it would be very helpful at the theatre.

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