Class Eight

In today's class we were finishing Assignment three using Book Creator app on the iPad. As mentioned in the previous post the app itself is extremely easy to use and appeals to all sides of creativity. What has stuck out with me the most however is my train of thinking. As this course has progressed my eyes have been opened in a new and wonderful light to the many sides of assistive technology. I had a very basic knowledge base of the types of AT available, but as this course has progressed that knowledge base has grown so much. I find myself thinking about accessibility in all areas of my life and I am even making comments to my husband when I feel things should be more accessible. What effects me the most is how accessibility options are readily available on devices we use daily, yet we have no idea they exist……these are the things we should be receiving PD on from our boards.

If I was asked to do this activity at the beginning of the class it would have been way more complex and I would have required four classes to complete, but after our numerous conversations about accessibility my partner and I kept coming up with more than 20 ways to use book creator. We even found some of the pages in this assignment to be cluttered because of all of the accessibility options we wanted to include on each page. The exposure to AT this class has provided has been invaluable and has been extremely practical for taking back to my school. I am fortunate to have been a part of this class. :)