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WriteOnline updated

Brian Friedlander (http://assistivetek.blogspot.com) just wrote an update on Crick Software’s Write Online 1.3. If you have not used this (or heard of it), it’s an online AT software program featuring...

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Friday Research Spotlight: E-books vs. P-books

The researcher in this study asked 56 sixth-year public school students to read paper and electronic text, then take a quiz and rate reading satisfaction. The article reports “a significant ‘book...

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Friday Research Spotlight: E-Book Usability

This is an interesting article since the authors are comparing satisfaction and usability of five of the leading eBook readers including the Kindle, iPad, nook and Sony Digital Reader. The sample is...

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Keeping school books in the cloud

I was watching the video “The Importance of Assistive Technology” in which I’m Determined Youth Leaders discuss the role of technology in their lives (see it here: http://www.imdetermined.org/youth/)...

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Highlighting school books in the cloud

I’m pretty hard on my books-I highlight, fold down pages, and write in the margins. The learning curve for e-books wasn’t bad-there is a digital cognate for each of those actions that feels pretty...

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Studying from school books in the cloud

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve posted screenshots of my school books stored in the cloud. It’s nice to have access to hundreds of pounds of paper books on a phone, e-reader device like a Kindle, and...

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