# 7 A Helping Hand

Assistive technologies can be very helpful in and outside of the classroom; one thing that I have learned about in the podcast was through the American with Disabilities Act. Along with how accommodations are required to be made for people with disabilities that need help in and outside of the classroom. Some examples include, voice recognition software, joysticks instead of mouse, braille printers and spelling checkers. I have never known someone who has had to use these devices but I have seen people with them before either around school or college. My mother actually had a student one year who was blind, so she received a braille printer from the school so she could print out his work. Some of the challenges I perceive using these adaptive technologies in my classroom is sometimes technologies do not work and it can be expensive and time consuming to fix. Along with as in the podcast says, it is important to match the right technology with the right person, not everyone can use anything and making sure people have the right thing is important. 

While working on the Web Page Design assignment I have learned a lot while using weebly. First of all I learned how to embed a Google calendar and edit it to actually put events with descriptions. I found placing the survey questions very helpful for if I was an actual teacher taking my kids on a field trip and needed to know specific information this would be great. The project was really fun to make and be creative on but next time I would change the theme and really have fun with the colors and fonts along with making it even more interactive.  http://abigailpateeme2040.weebly.com

Working with Diigo I have learned so much and I think it is really a cool and useful tool overall that I will get a lot of use out of. I think it is really useful if I find a good article that I would like to show the classroom where I can annotate on the sides for good points that I want to tell the classroom. Also I feel that this could be very helpful when collaborating with other professionals. Being able to share cool websites, articles and other things between teachers that could be helpful to read or use is a great idea.