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EdTech Assesments

#1 - Moodle    The premise of Moodle would be to allow educators to facilitate hybrid, in-class, or online teaching all within access and control of themselves and their institution. The University of Guam uses Moodle to facilitate in nearly all online class material. As it is already paid for by student fees, it seems feasible that keeping up with the software and web material would be appropriate. It allows students access to secure material given by their instructors and only that secure element. Instructors are able to control their class material allowing access only during a window if time or even block access to some material until some previous material has been submitted or checked off. The possibilities for the embeddable material are only limited to the instructor's cache of information and what they need to share with their students.      As a student, this allows me to keep in contact with all the class material shared through this ins...

Inte-GREAT-ion

     In the "Assistive Technology: Enabling Dreams" and "STEM and People with Disabilities" videos, we are reminded that there are people with different abilities who work just as well as us. These videos highlight that these people are humans as well and have dreams and talents just like we do. Their only hurdles are physiological limitations that prevent them from learning, participating, or communicating as well as an average functioning person. These videos take into account the rising tide of assistive technology and the ways that they can be integrated into "regular" academic life and how they are already being used. Speech-to-text and Text-to-speech software is a milestone for AT development      Susanna Sweeney-Martini, a college sophomore then when interviewed for the Enabling Dreams (Ellis, 2005) video stated: "Without [assistive technology] I could not exist as I am today." Born with cerebral palsy, it is difficult, nearl...