Day 9 July 14

I can see the end of our project coming into view. Today we focused on describing the students with special needs that are part of our class profile. We also continued with the process of describing what their participation in the project would look like and the types of assistive technology that would be useful in facilitating that participation. This task analysis is complicated enough when designing a learning experience with limitless resources. It would be quite different in a real class setting where it often takes time to get access to the software and hardware needed. Nevertheless, this process is very important and should take place as early as possible. Ideally, the student should have the technology at the beginning of the year or as soon as the need is recognized. It is a reality that budgets and other priorities often intervene. Hopefully, building blogs and sharing them, as we are doing, will help with awareness and contribute something to the ways and means of moving toward more efficient application of Assistive Technology.