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A Window Into Tablets
A recent article on the website gaming examiner compared the Kindle Fire HD with the iPad Mini. The author highlights relevant facts. The HD version of the Kindle Fire is superior in a few spots, while the iPad Mini is deficient except for iTunes, where it enjoys an advantage with more and better content. Read…
Learning from Facebook, Google+, and Twitter
This last year and a half I have had the distinct pleasure of participating in the relationship building networks we call social media (vintage depiction of Twitter in attached picture found here). My most recent experience has been on Facebook, which has proved to be my playground. Where Twitter and Google+ have been about…
Can The iPad Mini Reset 7 inch Market?
Brooke Crothers of CNET says what I believed some time ago, which is that Apple can reset the 7 inch market with their new iPad Mini. You can read his article here. Back in July of 2011 I wrote the following: The seven-inch tablets are tweeners, too big to compete with a smartphone and…
What can we learn from Facebook?
The New York Times published an article entitled “The Education of Mark Zuckerberg” on May 12, 2012. This seems appropriate since Facebook will become a public company on May 18, 2012. The initial stock price will likely range between 28 to 35 dollars a share. At the end of trading, most expect Facebook…
The Lose Lose of Autism & Law Enforcement
Somehow in some way we need to address the lose lose of Autism and Law Enforcement. Recently, Wood TV reported the story of a 19 year old with autism being restrained, handcuffed, and placed in custody. John Bessinger took his son, Johnathan, to the courthouse downtown Grand Rapids for a guardianship hearing Wednesday. Before they…
A Social Stories App?
“Let’s take just one stakeholder example: students with disabilities, as well as their teachers and parents. Autism advocate and software developer Russ Ewell from the Hope Technology Group is excited. “Apple could unlock another door for autism with this breakthrough,” Ewell said. “Parents could create social story books.” So could special education teachers or therapists,…
Creating an AAC Communication Game-plan
“What you want is a real talisman, a magic something you think I conjured up to coax Temple into joining life, as you hope your child will. There was no magic; there was just doing the best I could. That’s the point; that’s the talisman.” Eustacia Cutler, A Thorn in My Pocket I am grateful…