10 July 2019Deanna Toxopeus, Itinerant Teacher of Assistive Technology, OCDSB
This is a guest blog post from Deanna Toxopeus, an Itinerant Teacher of Assistive Technology at Ottawa Carleton District School Board. The original can be found on Deanna's personal blog: Muffins and Shenanigans.
A little over a year ago my son was diagnosed with as being gifted, with a learning disability. Specifically, he struggled with short term memory. And, like many people with LD, organization is a challenge. I joke that God doesn’t even know where the papers my son is supposed to bring home from school have gone. I then comment that apples don’t fall far from trees, as I am also gifted LD, although my LD is in spelling.
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15 August 2018Andrea Ferrero, Co-Founder, Pockets Change
This week we have another guest blog post from Andrea Ferrero the co-founder of Pockets Change.
“Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.” It’s a strong statement from one of my education heroes, Rita Pierson. She understood deeply what many of us do, that relationship building is crucial for powerful learning to happen. As we head back to school, our kids are navigating new routines, new subjects, and new friendships. We can ease back to school blues and first day jitters with ice-breakers and get to know you games, but these activities also present a unique opportunity to begin building learning profiles with our students.
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15 June 2018 Barbara Landsberg
If you visited our booth or attended one of our sessions at EduTech Sydney, you will know we ran an online competition - for attendees to post their key learnings from the sessions on the hashtag #EdTechWinAU. I thought I’d share some of these with you.
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27 March 2018Kathleen Colburn, Product Manager
The power of Snapverter to make paper documents digital and accessible just became that much easier to access, right from the palm of your hand! Today we’re launching a new Snapverter mobile app for iOS, a perfect complement for current Snapverter users.
Snapverter for iOS brings the OCR capabilities of Snapverter to iPhones and iPads, allowing you to create accessible PDFs, hear them read aloud on demand, and export them to access on your other devices.
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09 February 2018Jason Carroll, Global Product Manager
We’re just getting back from a jam-packed ATIA 2018 conference in Orlando, FL where making PDFs accessible and collaborative seemed to be on everyone’s mind.
Thankfully that’s something Texthelp knows a thing or two about. So for those of you that are interested in learning more about our PDF tools or want to start using them in your classroom today, this post is for you!
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24 March 2017Kathleen Colburn, Product Manager
Snapverter™ is a powerful tool that allows teachers to create digital and accessible instructional materials. In previous blog posts, we’ve explored how Snapverter can be used with different types of files and documents, and on different types of devices. Today we’ll cover an additional topic that can really take your Snapverter use to the next level - the Snapverter dashboard.
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