This is the ultimate guide to doing family history on your iPad.
This is the ultimate guide to doing family history on your iPad.
Things to Do With a Switch and a Battery Interrupter (Just insert the metal disc of the interrupter between the battery head and the receiver and plug in a switch, does not generally work with anything that recharges. Also, when using a battery adapted it will just turn the item on an off making things like a stapler or pencil sharpener "partner" activities. You may need to tape, glue or velcro down the devices built in power switch if you want it to be an independent activity. Many of these items are available at dollar, discount and salvage stores as well as flea markets. It generally costs less to adapt them yourself. Save your school budget for things you can't pick up for cheap.) 1. cut with battery operated scissors (pre-adapted) 2. have a race with toys that walk accessed through the switch (pre-adapted) 3. use walking switch toys to knock down block tower 4. use an adapted remote control car to knock down towers 5. put paint on the wheels of the adapted remote control car and drive over paper to make a painting 6. use a battery run electric razor and remove the pills from sweaters 7. turn on and off a hand held massager to give massages or to shake a box filled with paint covered marbles 8. turn on and off a flashlight (point it under your face and tell ghost stories, hit another switch to play ghost stories) 9. turn on and off battery operated holiday lights decorating your wheelchair 10. blow bubbles on your adapted battery run bubble blower 11. staple things 12. turn on and off a mini-tv 13. stir a drink 14. sift flour 15. be in charge of the pencil sharpener 16. dry your nails 17. open mail 18. sharpen the crayons 19. vacuum up bugs or dust bunnies 20. scare the pants off someone 21. make something spin in circles 22. cool off 23. spray a mix of water and food coloring over a stencil to paint 24. take a bubble bath 25. make spin art Using a Switch and an Electric Power Adapter (The Powerlink from Ablenet and the Electra from Tash with both interrupt the power to electric {plug in} devices and can be set to direct, timed or latch {first hit turns on, second turns off}. Oh, don't use it with high power items like microwaves!) 26. cool off with a plug in fan, attach streamers and watch them blow 27. make sailboats, place in a long underbed storage box of water, set up fans with switches, use fans to make wind, race the boats 28. turn on and off the lights in a haunted house 29. be the D.J. 30. use hair dryers to dry paintings 31. go apple picking then use a juicer with a switch to make juice 32. make ice cream shakes, use food coloring to make a color to go with your holiday theme, sell them for two dollars 33. use a food processor to mix up the ingredients to make recycled paper, use your fans to dry it 34. grind up oreos in a grinder or food processor to make "dirt" 35. turn on holiday lights or a holiday fiber optic tree 36. run a foot massager 37. use the switch and the overhead projector to shine a light onto a friend and trace silhouettes 38. make a funky sixties or seventies space by running lava lamps, a liquid projector, and groovy music all by switches 39. run a fog lamp to make the room spooky or mist-i-cal 40. turn on the black lights with all of your glow in the dark stuff around, make your own planetarium 41. use that sewing machine and make some curtains (or aprons...) 42. plug in one red light and one green light - now the switch user runs gym class 43. shave people's heads for a dollar during spirit week Things to do with specially adapted devices and a switch: 44-48. use a pouring cup to pour cooking ingredients, art supplies like glitter, to pour sand in the sand box, to measure for science experiments to to dump water over your friends head 49. Use and iScan to run your iPod 50. change the tv channels 51. listen to CDs 52. be a bookworm 55. spin 56. be a high roller 57. ring my bell or bells 58. bowl 59. scoot 60. joke
Besides eating bamboo leaves I like all kind of oddities. Being bored of usual buildings I have traveled the world (with the help of Internet) and found 50 strangest and most extraordinary churches in the world, and I'm kind enough to share it with you.
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Such interesting stuff!!! It's amazing what I'm finding now that I've taken a sewing break...... How cool, huh? And there's so much more. Good thing I'm not going to get hooked into that too! E-gads, if I spend any more time on this computer I'll never have time to sew! I do want to wish you many blessings this holiday season! Thank you for visiting with me! I appreciate each and every one of you and hope and pray that you all find peace and fun with those you love in these next few days of joyfulness. Merry Christmas!!
This is the ultimate guide to doing family history on your iPad.
This is the ultimate guide to doing family history on your iPad.
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Munich was one of the cities that most surprised me in Europe– in a good way. From the moment we arrived, entering the city by bus, I was taken aback by the city’s size. As we made our way from quiet residential neighborhoods to the Old Town, the architectural styles quickly started to change. It might not have been the cute gingerbread-style houses typical of the Rhineland, but it was something just as special. Filled with large, open pedestrian spaces and green parks, Munich seemingly had it all. Had we finally found the most livable city in Europe? I instantly
This is the ultimate guide to doing family history on your iPad.
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A picture of a lady potter (Hefneryn) operating a foot driven potter's wheel in the mid-1400's. This picture comes from a Hapsburg Court playing card. Note that she is making the corrugated surface on the body of a German funnel necked stoneware jug of which was common in this period. She is probably using a bone to do this; perhaps a cow's metapodial bone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapsburg
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This is the ultimate guide to doing family history on your iPad.
You’ve heard it before, you’ve seen it before, and you’ve most likely experienced it yourself before: technology integration frustration. Change is not easy. When we talk about change, especially technology changes that take us into the wide world of the unknown, things can quickly become even more complicated. Technology integration in schools is particularly important because kids are really branching out and utilizing technology at a much higher rate than ever before. Part of teaching and helping students to safely and appropriately use technology is recognizing that it’s happening all around us. Here are 10 tips to help you and your colleagues avoid technology integration frustration. 1. Establish a focus and a purpose. One of the biggest issues plaguing education is the overabundance of initiatives in which participants don’t see a clear and obvious connection. Before moving ahead with a technology integration plan, help paint the full picture by presenting teachers with the purpose and the overall justification of the movement. 2. Bring the goods. There is nothing more frustrating than discussing the need for increased, integrated technology if there’s no technology available. Despite ever-shrinking budgets and more and more financial demands, ensure that technology is available for educators and students to use before you begin the discussion. To account for limited budgets, many districts are utilizing a hybrid model which provides a limited number of devices while also encouraging students to bring their own personal devices (BYOD). If you are encouraging students to bring their own devices, be sure to set some ground rules and guidelines for students, staff and parents. http://goo.gl/Llmxpa 3. Make sure your infrastructure is in place and has demonstrated, sustained reliability. It’s absolutely critical that schools have the proper networking capabilities and infrastructure in place prior to moving ahead with any kind of major technology integration initiative. When educators and students are looking to access the Internet, they need a reliable and robust system that makes access second-nature and easy. 4. Have a serious conversation about Internet filtering and technology access. Teaching digital citizenship and proper internet safety are crucial pieces when it comes to the technology access conversation. Too often though, districts and schools have a divide between those who safeguard the network and overall system and those who are most often using the network and system. Collaboratively with colleagues, students, and community members, establish a set of guidelines and expectations that involve integrating digital literacy and citizenship into your curricula. Involve your technology department in this process, ensuring alignment between the overall integrity of the network while also allowing for trust, openness, and effective utilization of the network by educators and students. 5. Differentiate, customize, and personalize the process for staff. In order for this technology revolution to start and be effective, you must have an idea of your staff members’ technology knowledge and background. Take time to both formally and informally ask questions. This will help you when it comes to knowing where to start, as well as what information could be skipped over and/or re-emphasized. 6. Help make technology and social media applicable to content. When someone asks, “How does this work for me in my class?,” you need to have an answer. Put yourself in the educator’s shoes and consider how these new tools can have a positive effect on the classroom. Provide your colleagues with lists of other people both in and out of the district who may be teaching the same or similar classes. Your fellow educators will only take part in the revolution if they see how technology and social media integration can help them or their students. 7. Do not drown your staff members with too much, too quickly. Don’t forget that our colleagues are learning, just as our students are. You can’t, and shouldn’t, give them too much to bite off at one time. Take it slowly by presenting one or two concepts at a time, allowing your fellow educators a better chance to fully grasp the topics before moving on to new ones. Make sure you don’t create a room full of brains that have shut down due to stress and confusion. 8. Support and encourage your shining stars. As the year progresses, a few “shining stars” will begin to emerge. These educators need to be encouraged and supported, because they are taking a risk by trying something new. Allow them to discover and explore, but also keep them in close contact. Be there to help if they start to struggle and want help. It is essential that they have your support and guidance. 9. Don’t make it just about the technology. This point needs to be made clear from the very beginning: Technology is just another tool in the educator’s tool belt. Technology is a means to provide additional opportunities to enhance the overall impact of the lesson and/or activity. Using the SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification and Redefinition) model is an excellent strategy to get the point across that technology can redefine and completely change the types of activities you can do with students. 10. Prepare and acknowledge the implementation dip. Growth will be fast at first, but then there will be a collapse. There will be disappointment that something didn’t work out as planned, and there will be frustration when the students don’t respond how we thought they would. This is all a natural part of the change process. Be sure to remind folks frequently that there will be bumps and setbacks. However, a strategic approach to technology integration will enable us to better prepare students for success in the future, and that’s what it’s all about.
Top: Little horse on wheels (Ancient Greek child’s Toy). From tomb dating 950-900 BC. Kerameikos Archaeological Museum in Athens. Bottom:Toy buffalo on wheels. Terracotta, Magna Graecia, Archaic Age. Both photos via The Ancient World tumblr.
We all have those students that raise their hand and say, “I’m done, now what do I do?” We also have those who finish with their work and decide its time to
