Education: Digital Badges

Campus Technology's December Issue ran an article on digital badges. While not replacing the degree a student receives for completing a college program, digital badges may be a valuable means for students to showcase certain credentials they acquire over the course of program completion. As the learning environment changes where students may take longer to complete programs due to financial or life constraints, digital badges may be a way to mark skill sets acquired that potential employers can view if students need to pause and work between their degree programs.

For more information, read: Show me Your Badge, by Audrey Watters

Adaptive Tech: Text to Speech & Zoom in iPad

Own an iPad? Or looking to invest in one? Students who benefit from having things read aloud can go into settings and access the Text to Speech feature under Accessibility. There's also a handy Zoom feature on iPad that allows users to get a closer look at something that otherwise may be too difficult to see.

Want to learn how to access these features on your iPad? Check out the youtube.com video below.

Technology: Campus Technology Magazine is...

...going digital on Tuesday, August 14th, 2012.

If you're a subscriber, be sure to check out their website for more information on a digital subscription or keep an eye out on your mailbox.

Visit  Campus Technology to fill out their FREE digital subscription form.

LD News: Captioned Media

An article released by the National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTi) and Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITeD) discuss how captioned or subtitled media can help students who struggle with LD or reading issues to increase their:

• reading speed,
• word knowledge,
• decoding,
• vocabulary acquisition,
• word recognition,
• reading comprehension, and
• oral reading rates.

For more information regarding their research findings, please read the article: Captioned Media: Literacy Support for Diverse Learners