Bridges News

What we’ve learned at Bridges LIVE this year! 0

1) Multi-platform is the new eco system

At BridgesLIVE events we've seen BYOD in action. From iPads, to Surface tablets (actually a lot more than I expected, several per each BLive), from wheezy but still chugging XP laptops, to Macs and Windows, 7, 8 and even an Android tablet and Chromebook or two. Two years ago people brought their own iPads. Now folks bring a laptop, a tablet and a phone all running different OS’s. I had a few people who brought both a Windows laptop and a iPad or Chromebook -- each attendee is their own tech eco-system.

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?

e-Campus News reports how Kurzweil 3000 web, firefly makes a big difference in college 0

e-Campus News, the journal of technology news for higher-education, recently published a feature story on Kurzweil 3000 and firefly web license; “Outside-the-box assistive tech goes campus-wide,” by Andrew Barbour, (January 19th, 2015).