Welcome Who’s in the room? Please go to the following website to answer the questions on Padlet for your chance to win a prize! The Padlet is called ‘Who’s in the room?’ 1. What is your first and last name? 2. What school board are you from? 3. What is your job title? www.bit.ly/PeelASET Using a SharePoint Effectively Tracy Bardell Betsy Clark Cas McGeown PDSB Assistive Technology Team • • • • • Katie Levalds – Special Education Coordinator –Secondary and Assistive Technology Tracy Bardell – Special Education Consultant – Assistive Technology Cas McGeown – Special Education Resource Teacher – Assistive Technology Betsy Clark – Special Education Resource Teacher – Assistive Technology SEA Administrative Staff: • Susan Croteau • Mihika Kumar Victoria Pavao • SEA PC LAN Tech Specialists: • Robert Ferrie • Ricardo Figueroa Paul Ljubanovich Dave Rocano Peel District School Board Statistics Peel District School Board currently has : • 153,700 Students • 246 Schools • 209 Elementary Schools • 37 Secondary Schools • 15,868 Full Time Staff with additional part-time staff • Second largest school board in Canada Assistive Technology Growing in PEEL 385% increase in AT use for EQAO (2009 - 14) 382% increase in SEA Claims (2010 - 14) Growing Need for Assistive Technology Support • Special Education Teachers • In School Support Teachers • Special Education Consultants • Itinerant Teachers • Speech and Language Pathologists • Psychologists • Educational Resource Facilitators (T.A.’s) Equipment That We Support • • • • • • Desktop Computer Laptops iPads Interactive White Boards (SMART, Epson) Apple TV 3 Variety of other peripherals Software That We Support • Ministry Licensed Software (Clicker, Smart Ideas, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, WordQ, etc…) • Kurzweil Web Based Board License • RM Easiteach • SMART Notebook History of Accessing Support for Assistive Technology • Centralized Computer Support Services • School Technicians • Two Special Education Computer Technicians • Help Desk • Information Technology Resource Teachers • Static link on our Special Education Site What is Microsoft SharePoint? Why we created our SharePoint for Assistive Technology ? • • • • • • • • Share information Document collaborative communications Respond to Professional Development Feedback Provide training resources Easy access to curriculum resources Consistent messaging Engage social media Share calendars Peel Assistive Technology SharePoint Central location for teachers to build their personal capacity and keep current Now we are able to share the following: • • • • • Announcements Organize/Share Resources Calendar Events Contact Information Embed Twitter feed Features of our site Secure site contact information resources announcements twitter thread for non twitter users calendar Padlet Answer the following questions on Padlet for your chance to win a prize at the end of our presentation: 1. Does your school board have an AT site? 1. If so, how is your site used effectively? 2. If not, how do you communicate to your staff and parents? 2. What do you think is key to include in an Assistive Technology SharePoint site? www.bit.ly/PeelFeedback Design Parent Assistive Technology Site WordPress www.pdsbAT.net Thank you for participating! [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] @pdsbAT www.pdsbAT.net
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