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Special Section: The Other Welfare, SSI. iPads in the Classroom. Teaching Large Classes with an iPad » To this day I remain a big fan of the overhead projector. I truly believe it was more effective a tool for teaching than the projected Powerpoint slides will ever be. I stood facing the students, watching their expressions, which I could see since the lights were sufficiently bright. I could draw on the screen and change directions as questions arose. In fact I will argue that the ‘golden age of college teaching’ if there was one was stimulated by the addition of the roller to the overhead projector.

It’s been downhill ever since, …until this semester. This semester I’ve purchased an iPad2 and a software application called SplashTop Remote Desktop. To reach this new level of teaching nirvana I have found at least two routes (so far): In both cases you could use the resulting system to present with KeyNote® but that would be so 90′s. Google+ Like this: Like Loading... IPAD Activities Examples. Follow-up process lacking in SSI disability program. HOLYOKE — Her toddler was adorable and rambunctious, but his vocabulary was limited to “Mommy’’ and “that,’’ while other children his age knew dozens of words. When little Alfonso tried a full sentence it came out in a swirl of sounds, often followed by a major league tantrum when he realized he was not understood.

And so his mother, Roxanne Roman, was not surprised when the 18-month-old was diagnosed by a specialist with speech delay. It came as a shock, however, when she learned from relatives that Alfonso’s problem might qualify him for thousands of dollars in yearly disability payments through the federal Supplemental Security Income program.

For Roman, pregnant with her second child at age 17 and living at her mother’s, the extra income was attractive. Within three months, the boy’s application was approved. “They don’t ask many questions about the child once you’re approved,’’ Roman said. “It’s not the centerpiece of what they do,’’ she said. An enormous challenge Early intervention. iPad Classroom.