First Special Education iphone application

Well ladies and gentleman, the wait is over. We finally have an iphone app that helps us prepare for our IEP meetings. Watch this!!

Tech tools for teachers

Recently, I have not had the opportunity to keep the Teacher Cafe up to date. This is the result of a few major distraction in my life, the most prominent of which is is getting admitted into graduate school. Yes, the news is true, I will be pursuing my PhD. in Special Education here in the Bay Area at both Berkeley and San Francisco State University, in the Joint Doctoral Program. I know, its a mouth full. I am sure not as much to chew as my immanent five years of schooling, but a morsel none the less.
The other major distraction has been my current course work, some of which takes me further into my budding interest in becoming technologically literate. In my search for new and interesting materials on the World Wide Web, I came across something locally grown. This web tool is free and designed to give teachers the flexibility to create whatever teaching tools they feel will best address the student's need. Flexibooks are digital text books that can be compiled by reusing already approved materials that are aligned with state standards, or by creating your own from scratch, or somewhere in between.
California has mandated a push towards technology based texts and this resource is way ahead of the game in offering a new solution. The most exciting part of this tool is that any teacher can now personalize and differentiate their texts to meet any students needs. In addition these tech texts can save paper, be transported to any machine, and will increase students ability to use the tech tools the schools provide them with.