Bridges Assistive Tech Camp

Bridges Assistive Tech Camp What student (or parent, for that matter) doesn’t dream of visiting outer space? At this year’s Bridges Assistive Tech Summer Camp, facilitated in partnership with a local school board, students got to do just that. Using assistive technology provided in school to support their learning, campers were challenged with choosing a…

CoWriter.com and SnapandRead.com Go live

With the launch of SnapandRead.com and Cowriter.com, Don Johnston delivers new ways to access and manage your universal license for school districts, and easier and affordable options for individual users too. You can now sign up for a free trial for a Personal, Parent or Educator account for both Co:writer and Snap&Read. Single licenses are…

Quick and Easy Worksheet accessibility on Chromebook/GAFE

Chromebook users can be challenged by a printed worksheet – not all scanners and other peripherals work with the Google OS machines.  Even in a Windows environment, a lot of schools are going to cloud based apps for a lot of compelling reasons, not least of which is simplicity, low cost and anywhere access to…

“Look what he can do! Who knew?” BC High School conducts uPAR Pilot

It took no more than 10 minutes of using uPAR in a BC school to generate the first profound, goosebump-raising results. The team supervising the uPAR assessment called-up the screen of a grade 12 student (let’s call him Zack) working intently away. He was one of 22 students in the room ranging from grades 9-12…

Aidan and Eye Gaze – A New World of Possibilities

Last week, we got this very short email: “I just had to share this video… We introduced the EyeGaze on Friday and again today.  This is day 2!  Oh My!  ;)” –Barb Welsford, Assistive Technology Specialist, Bridgewater The assistive technology team at South Shore Regional School Board in Nova Scotia sent us video clips that captured Aidan’s…

Extensions — What work is done in the Cloud vs. the local computer

  Most extensions take data from your computer and send it to their server in the Cloud to do the work. From a developer’s standpoint, that’s the easiest and cheapest way to create and run an extension. Extensions that look at the text or document you’re looking at — a text-to-speech reader, adblocker, a summarizer…

Sine Keyboard — Another AT Tool Adopted by the Mainstream

I recently stumbled across the Siine keyboard app for speeding up messaging on a mobile device.  Siine is an on-screen keyboard for Android that uses symbols and icons to represent stock phrases, words, sentences, names that you’ll use over and over again.  For example, hit the bow-tie icon that says greetings and you spit out…

See the New Clicker 6, Online

Bridges is hosting webinars on the new Clicker 6, presented by Neil Andrews of Crick, on February 27th at 3 pm EST and 28th 12:00 pm EST. These 1 hour webinars will deliver an overview of Clicker 6.  Clicker 6 was launched in January and was the buzz at ATIA Orlando and BETT London conferences.  We’re…

YOUDLE Holiday Gift Basket!

The gift that gives for the whole year, for any teacher you love! Our gift to you: free shipping on baskets $75.00(+). These thoughtful collections of learning tools will be great gifts for any teacher – new or experienced!  Great for homeschoolers, too.  Our favourite manipulatives have been selected and put together by the education…

See Co:Writer V.6 at CEC in Oakville

Bridges will be exhibiting at the Ontario Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Conference in Oakville this Friday.  Stop by our display to see the new Co:Writer V.6.  So hot off the presses, you can practically cook an egg on it!  We’ll also have plenty of Youdle stuff and of draws for Youdle kits and all…