The BEST Podcast - November 2005
AT News
Upcoming Conferences
New products introduced at CTG… courtesy of Jeannette Van Houten from QIAT Listserv
Closing Notes
Upcoming Conferences
- ATIA – January 18-22, Orlando FL
- TRLD – Jan 26-28
- CSUN – March 20-25, 2006, Los Angelos
- NECC – July 5-7, San Diego
- Bring pre-made labels to supply to vendors
- Share handouts
- Find out if handouts are online – get them all
- Talk with vendors about ‘special sessions’
- Check with vendors for booth presentations
- Check with vendors for free updates to software (MOBS)
- Check with vendors on price, many offer significant reductions if you purchase at the conference, consider having prearranged to make some purchases
- Have a backup session in mind for a given time slot, don’t be afraid to leave a session that isn’t meeting your needs
- If the vendor area is open ahead of the conference, plan to attend, it is a good time to take a quick look
- Network with other conference attendees, you can learn a lot from each other and share content from sessions
New products introduced at CTG… courtesy of Jeannette Van Houten from QIAT Listserv
- Able Net. Inc.: has improved their slim armstrong. If you have not checked out the following items, they are worth a look: MEville to WEville and Star Reporter. The MEville to WEville and Star Reporter are complete units that teachers have created. Able net also has a new switch Jelly Beamer™ wireless switch. http://www.ablenetinc.com
- Widget the company that has brought you writing with symbols has 3 new products on the market. The one that really WOW’d me was the first symbol-supported web browser. It turns any web page into symbol based text. You can check it out at the http://www.widgit.com/products/index.htm .
- Intellitools is now offering a few upgrade to Intellipics Studio which now contains the old Intellipics. They also have some new overlays that work with many other programs, such as Kurzweil, SOLO, AOL, Kidspiration/Inspriration, Itunes, and others. http://www.intellitools.com/
- Fly Pen - http://www.flypentop.com/
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Enjoyed your product review, can't wait until next month's product review!
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Hello! I really enjoyed listening to your very first Podcast. It was extremely informative! I look forward to listening to the next show. Great idea using Skype to create this.
Good luck,
Deb Barrows
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