Great Tool for Assisting Struggles with Typing Documents

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                   Facts: When you have a disability that you struggle with typing, sometimes hold a pencil and definitely stapling, there are many tools to assist you to make life easier and more accessible.

     During the Year of 2011, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Being an educator and now working toward my certification for Media Specialist, it has been a struggle with all of the classes, school workload created for teachers and part of our job. Within this time of my eighteen years as an educator, I have used Google classroom to grade things (google forms), short hand ascribing and two of my favorite tools, Google Voice and an electric stapler. 💗 

                                                    Here is an introduction to Google Voice/Typing

                                                              

                                             

With my school district being a GOOGLE district, we are limited to other things we can use other than Google in our weekly class objectives. Google Voice is an adaptive technology resource I use along with many of my students. You have to first open your Google Docs folder and then you can access voice. My district IT person had to give me access to this. 

In our readings this week, two things stood out in my mind. The first one was how we as librarians need to work toward understanding different learning styles along with meet learner's needs . Students have different needs as we all do and learning differently. We have to create an ample amount of different choices for our students to feel successful. (Copeland, 2018)

We as librarians need to be vigilant in finding and researching different tools for students and adults with disabilities. Creating an open environment and a positive environment for all is important. 

Here is a video I would love to share : Why design should include everyone. We all struggle with different things whether it be MS, our size, math lessons, lesson planning, picking out just right books, and reading, we can try to think about things from people who have disabilities or struggle with certain things in everyday life.  The first four and a half minutes is what I tried to post but I think it posted it all. 

Design greatly impacts on all lives. Tools help you access more!

youtube videos: Design: why it should include everyone TED 

Copeland, Clayton (2018) School Librarians of the 21st century