SETDirect
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SET-BC Direct: February 26, 1999
Volume 1, Issue 3
Special Education Technology-British Columbia
Email Circulation: 495, Website Visitors Last Month: 19,261 (January)
http://www.setbc.org
Welcome to SET-BC Direct, an on-line newsletter for people who are interested in issues and resources regarding the use of assistive technologies in education.
SET-BC Direct is intended to help teachers and other professionals who have questions regarding the implementation of technology for students with special needs. Subscribers may also be interested in the SET-BC program itself; our model for service delivery and the projects we develop to better assist students with disabilities.
In this issue:
1. Projects: "Voice Input 98"
2. Projects: "The Mountbatten Brailler Pilot Research Project"
3. Student Gallery: This month Stephen is featured in the Gallery
4. SET-BC Website Readers' Profile
5. Assistive technology training for school support workers
Best of the new year from all of us at SET-BC.
Sincerely,
Mike Bartlett
Provincial Coordinator
Special Education Technology-British Columbia
P.S. We hope you enjoy receiving SET-BC Direct. However, if you would rather not receive any future issues from SET-BC, please follow the subscribe/unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of this page.
1. Projects: "Voice Input 98"
"Voice Input 98" was a project initiated by SET-BC one year ago to investigate voice recognition technologies with school aged children. There is a wide spread tendency to have high expectations for using voice recognition technologies with students with disabilities. However, SET-BC's experience over the past 7 years suggests that these high expectations are often unrealistic given the present state of voice recognition technology. We hope school based teams will find the voice project information, links and participant comments helpful when considering voice recognition use for students with disabilities.
2. Projects: "The Mountbatten Brailler Pilot Research Project"
What's happening with those Monty's? In October of '98 PRCVI and SET-BC initiated a pilot research project to evaluate the Mountbatten.
http://www.setbc.org/projects/mtbatten/
3. Student Gallery: This month Stephen is featured in the Gallery
Stephen is a secondary school student who uses a Macintosh laptop to assist him with all of his writing. Stephen recently attended "Students Using Technology: Measurable Successes" at SET-BC Vancouver. He shares his story.
http://www.setbc.org/projects/gallery/stephen.html
4. SET-BC Website Readers' Profile
SET-BC wants to provide relevant and interesting information on assistive technology for our website visitors. Please take a few minutes to answer these 5 questions about your role and interests in this area.
http://206.87.168.127:80/read/
5. Assistive technology training for school support workers
Staff training is one of the many challenges that school districts face in supporting students using assistive technology in the classroom. School District # 73 (Kamloops / Thompson) has developed an effective program for teaching technology skills and strategies to school support workers.
http://www.setbc.org/kamloops/
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SET-BC is a Provincial Resource Program funded by the B.C. Ministry of Education. Its purpose is to assist school districts in British Columbia in meeting the technology needs of students with physical disabilities and visual impairments.
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