Power Up!

For the past 2 days I've been in Columbia at an assistive technology conference. It was pretty interesting and I learned a lot. There were some things that were a bit over my head because many of the seminars were assistive technology for blind/low vision. However, I did go to one on captioning videos, which will really come in handy. Sometimes videos aren't captioned so I'll have to probably script them myself. The presenter showed us a free program to use to caption. You still have to type it all out, but I think it's better than just giving the student a script to follow. While I was there, I said to Michelle that I wished there was something that along with captioning could sign to the person. Well, apparently there's a thing called SigningAvatar. They weren't at the conference, but I looked it up on the internet and it is so cool. I think I'm going to sign up for a trial to try it out for one of my students, and if it's something he likes, I'll ask the district to purchase it. It wouldn't take the place of an interpreter of course, but it could be used in place of an interpreter for videos. Or maybe when he's reading, he could type in the word and get the sign, or even have a book signed to him while he follows along.

I got a few demo CDs for different programs that I might check out.

By the way, why is it so cold again? It's messing with my walks! I started to do a Wii workout the other day, but I guess I upped the intensity before I was ready and/or tried to work out too soon after eating because after 5 minutes of run/squats/run, I felt like I was going to throw up, so I stopped. I never got back to it because I was trying to get my student teaching videos to send through email. I've been having issues with it. The files are too big to email. I'm working on trying to figure out how to splice the video into 2 on iMovie so I can upload it onto YouTube. One video is around 20 minutes and it said videos should be 10 minutes or less. I've never uploaded to YouTube before. I'm hoping that it works so I don't have to make a DVD and send it. I'm not so good at the video part of computers, I guess. Well, that's about all for now. Bye!