Bridges News — Symbols

Free Symbolized Resources for 2015 Pan Am Games 0

Inspired by our recent March break camps and up coming summer camps, our training department put together some symbolized resources for the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games taking place in Toronto in July.

Bridges LIVE! Coming to a City Near You 0

We’ve just had our first Bridges LIVE! event in Mississauga and it was a great success. The enthusiasm of attendees, the discussions around trends in AT, new eye gaze technology and iPad access options, teaching strategies for students with profound challenges, tools on the cloud… as usual we probably learned as much from our participants as they from us!

2015 TRENDS -- WEB 2.0 – ENDANGERED SPECIES? 0

Whatever happened to web 2.0?

Is Web 2.0 like the dodo -- extinct?

Accessible Text Repositories -- Canadian and International 1

Recently, a teacher in BC whose student just received Kurzweil 3000 called and said "Given that many students in BC use Kurzweil 3000, I have two questions:

1) Surely, I don’t have to turn a whole bunch of common Grade 6 novels and textbooks into .kesi files for this specific student?

2) Surely, someone else has already done this work and there is a source for it?"

I answered, “of course you don't,” and “of course there is.” (Bracketed by the phrases “reinventing the wheel” and “don’t call me Shirley...”)