Category: Learning Supports
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CanLearn Society: Take Ten Spotlight Series
From the CanLearn Society comes a great new resource for educators: the Take Ten Spotlight Series, a set of strategies and tools for teaching students with learning disabilities and/or Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Included are a series of 10 minutes videos that explain specific learning difficulties, show what these difficulties look like in the classroom, and…
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Khan, Drang, and open education
In April, we featured Khan Academy, the not-for-profit organization with the ambitious goal of providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. While Khan Academy is a great resource – providing a wealth of lessons, each broken down into accessible, easy-to-digest parts – recent discussion suggests that it should be approached with a degree of…
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Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization providing, at last count, over 3,000 videos and 315 practice exercises on topics ranging from algebra to art history to biology to astronomy. The mission of the Khan Academy is ambitious: to provide a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. Judging from the response of our students,…
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Exclusive SAS workroom in the TFDL
Students who are registered with Student Accessibility Services at the University of Calgary have exclusive access to an Adaptive Technology workroom in the Taylor Family Digital Library. This workroom (260D) features 3 workstations complete with a variety of adaptive technology programs, including Kurzweil, Inspiration, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and Zoomtext. Students are encouraged to use the room…