The ITEC Blog

So, this week the task placed in front of us was to find 3 grants that interested us and that we might apply for. I have to admit I got frustrated by this task, not because of what it was but because a lot of the grants that are posted on the Internet are old. [...]

I researched the E Z Key software as an assistive technology for the classroom. The E Z Key software is manufactured by Words+, Inc. This technology would cost $1395 for the complete package, which includes speech software.
The E Z Key software does three main things for a student. It offers abbreviation exapansion, duel word prediction, and [...]

Technology Professional Development has really impressed me at the middle school I’m working at this year. The staff in general is very technologically oriented and eager to learn more. Almost every professional development day and at least once a month there is a seminar offered dealing with some sort of technology: Smartboards, clickers, COWs, SCORE, [...]

 The UBD book by Wiske, et al. has been very helpful in refining my essential learning material. The text has gone into great detail breaking down each essential element of a Understanding by Design Unit and then they put it all together with examples to help you sort through it.
Throughout the course the readings have [...]