iPhone/iPad Apps for AAC Home Support Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) Looking for the Apps for AAC list by Jane Farrall? It is now hosted on the Jane Farrall Consulting website What is AAC? AAC stands for Augmentative and Alternative Communication and it relates to all the tools and strategies that we use with people who have little or no speech. AAC tools can be low-tech options, such as symbol boards and communication books, as well as no-tech options such as Key Word Signing. With so many AAC apps available through the App Store, the Spectronics Consultancy Team would like to provide you with some tips and tools to help you find the right app. Top tips for successful AAC implementation: Choosing the right AAC app When considering AAC apps, you may want to consider: For more information and tools to help you match the right features for AAC apps, check out this blogpost App feature matching: an essential step. Spectronics APPraised AAC Apps Proloquo2Go Top 5 Features: Website links: Touch Chat Sonoflex TapSpeak Sequence
How to Use Padlet in the Classroom: A Fantastic Teaching Tool Padlet is a versatile, easy to use tool for every teacher’s toolkit. Let’s learn the basics. At the bottom of this post, I have a Padlet that is temporarily open for you to post and share your favorite edtech tools. Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers, spent some time teaching the teachers at my school about Padlet. www.padlet.com What you can share on Padlet: The box where you type or share your item. You can:TypeRecord Your VoiceAdd a HyperlinkAdd a PhotoAdd a Document The flexibility of this tool means you could have one class Padlet for the year and share resources and links throughout the year. Editing As with many tools the gear icon (as shown in the graphic below) is where you go to edit your background and change your settings. You can customize your Padlet page with a different background, title and more. Organizing Richard Byrne taught me something new today. You can move the Padlet layout to stream. Security and Control There are lots of features you can customize.
iPhone | DocScanner Take a picture of a document with iPhone’s camera, email it as PDF. DocScanner has got industry leading (link to a benchmark test) image processing algorithms which automatically turn the picture to look like you have scanned the document with a flatbed scanner. Document gets automatically recognized within the view finder in real time. Using custom algorithms DocScanner takes most of the iPhone’s camera and corrects perspective, whiteness, noise and other parts of the image to produce beautiful and clear scans. Use DocScanner to capture whiteboards and receipts, digitize your Moleskine notebook to a PDF-file or Evernote. DocScanner is not limited to paper documents only. Search text within your document library. DocScanner has an internal OCR-function that recognizes text and turns the documents you have captured with the camera to searchable text. Use Evernote as your second brain. Drop your documents to your Dropbox. WebDAV and Google Drive.
Prizmo: Scanning & OCR app for iPhone — About Watch Prizmo Video Trailer > Optimized for latest iOS. Prizmo 4 supports iOS latest features like Handoff, Extensions, and access to Documents (input / output). Prizmo 4 supports Handoff and lets you seamlessly continue editing from one device to another. Prizmo also offers a variety of extensions: Crop and Cleanup, Capture Text, and Read Text. Finally, Prizmo 4 adds support for Documents: you can import images or export results to any cloud file systems installed on your iPhone or iPad (including iCloud Drive). Universal Scanning Experience. Want to scan text documents, process business cards or images using your iPhone or iPad? Take a picture, choose the document type, and use the powerful image cleaning and enhancement features (like cropping and perspective correction, text readability...) to improve the picture. Last but not least, you can interact with the OCR engine like never before. iCloud. Your Prizmo documents are always with you, up to date on all your devices.
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