1. When Aaron was in the second grade, he was having trouble with reading. He could only use 1st grade reading material and had a hard time decoding words and the meaning of them. He was soon after assisted by Star learning center in their learning lab. Aaron was challenged with a reading diability and overcame this disability with Star's assistive reading program.
Source: http://www.starcenter.tn.org/Learning-Lab/learning-lab.html?gclid=CJagn9eBtK0CFYHrKgoddj0p6A
2. Sarah, a girl with a rare disease called Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP), uses assistive technology for her mobility. This disease turns her muscles into bones as she gets older, and as she gets older, she loses more and more of her mobility. She overcomes this by using an electric wheelchair in which allows her to be mobile and independant.
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Stem/ss_sarahst.html
3. The mother of Jon Udell was facing hearing and vision loss as she was getting older. In order to cope with this loss, Jon got her a humanware magnifier, which lets her put things into it and amplify the size of the text that she is reading. This allowed her to read things better without having to get glasses.
http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/03/26/an-assistive-technology-success-story-the-humanware-magnifier/
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Theodore Roosevelt River of Doubt
Theodore Roosevelt and the River of Doubt
One day, after Theodore Roosevelt lost the election, he was invited to Brazil, South America, in terms of exploring an unexplored river, called the River of Doubt. When they got there, the ex-president and his friends, as well as his son Kermit, set off down the river. While in the canoe down the river, they faced many challenges such as piranhas, poisonous snakes, heavy rapids, and Indian attacks. While on their way down the river, a lot of the men were bitten by malaria-carrying mosquitoes, contracting this disease that slowed their trip down majorly. They also had a lot of bad luck with rapids down the river, but Theodore’s son Kermit knew a lot about ropes, so he saved them a lot of the time when they were going down the rapids. After awhile down river, they decided to stop and explore deeper into the jungle around the river, and proclaimed every man for himself. Although most of the men went on their way, Kermit and George Cherrie helped care for the ex-president and his illness. The ex-president also had a cut leg from falling on a rock, so he could barely walk. After they got out of the river of doubt, he went to South America and stayed in a secluded home in ostermier bay in New York fighting off depression and despair from his permanent diseases that made him bed-ridden.
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One day, after Theodore Roosevelt lost the election, he was invited to Brazil, South America, in terms of exploring an unexplored river, called the River of Doubt. When they got there, the ex-president and his friends, as well as his son Kermit, set off down the river. While in the canoe down the river, they faced many challenges such as piranhas, poisonous snakes, heavy rapids, and Indian attacks. While on their way down the river, a lot of the men were bitten by malaria-carrying mosquitoes, contracting this disease that slowed their trip down majorly. They also had a lot of bad luck with rapids down the river, but Theodore’s son Kermit knew a lot about ropes, so he saved them a lot of the time when they were going down the rapids. After awhile down river, they decided to stop and explore deeper into the jungle around the river, and proclaimed every man for himself. Although most of the men went on their way, Kermit and George Cherrie helped care for the ex-president and his illness. The ex-president also had a cut leg from falling on a rock, so he could barely walk. After they got out of the river of doubt, he went to South America and stayed in a secluded home in ostermier bay in New York fighting off depression and despair from his permanent diseases that made him bed-ridden.
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Vocab Terms & Concepts
• Vocab I had on my notes:
• Creative Commons
• Intellectual Property
• Copyright
• Public Domain
• Freeware
• Shareware
• Open Source
• Attribution
• Commercial Use
• Derivative
• Share-alike
• Firewall
• Virus
• Hacking
• Piracy
• Malware
• Phishing
• Identity theft
• Cloud
• Cookies
• Filesharing
• Words not in Vocab:
• Data back-ups- When you back up data that could be lost from flooding, hard drives getting scratched, your business burning to the ground, or someone stealing the information.
2. The duties of the FTC are to touch any issues that touch the trade subject with any American. They pursue heavy law enforcement with trade and economical life. Copyright and Creative commons fall into their domain because they deal with anything involving laws and they handle copyright for economical works that Americans make.
• Creative Commons
• Intellectual Property
• Copyright
• Public Domain
• Freeware
• Shareware
• Open Source
• Attribution
• Commercial Use
• Derivative
• Share-alike
• Firewall
• Virus
• Hacking
• Piracy
• Malware
• Phishing
• Identity theft
• Cloud
• Cookies
• Filesharing
• Words not in Vocab:
• Data back-ups- When you back up data that could be lost from flooding, hard drives getting scratched, your business burning to the ground, or someone stealing the information.
2. The duties of the FTC are to touch any issues that touch the trade subject with any American. They pursue heavy law enforcement with trade and economical life. Copyright and Creative commons fall into their domain because they deal with anything involving laws and they handle copyright for economical works that Americans make.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Copyright Laws for music and/or Lyrics
When you write some music, you should always get a copyright on it when you finish it so that way if someone tries to steal your work you will have proof that it is yours. When you make a copyright on your work, all of your stuff is secured under copyright for as long as the longest living survivor plus 70 years. If you have copyrights on your work it means that someone can't steal your work while you are still alive or just after you die. The next current year for public domain music won't be until January 1, 2019. Public domain is someplace where you can find unproved un-copyrighted songs while the proof of the public domain is songs that actually have been proved to expire from their copyright. A few rules for copyright would be don't reproduce music if the copyright hasn't expired, and don't play un-copyrighted music in public even if yoru own the CD.
http://www.pdinfo.com/copyrt.php
One famous case of song theft would be when this guy was in the bathroom singing his new song, and his roomate was outside and can hear him, and writes his song down and claims it as his song. Althought the roomate didn't get a copyright, and the songwriter was able to go to the copyright office and get it copyrighted, so the roomate didn't get very far with the song in his hands.
http://www.pdinfo.com/copyrt.php
One famous case of song theft would be when this guy was in the bathroom singing his new song, and his roomate was outside and can hear him, and writes his song down and claims it as his song. Althought the roomate didn't get a copyright, and the songwriter was able to go to the copyright office and get it copyrighted, so the roomate didn't get very far with the song in his hands.
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