Jason Dewey was born in Metairie, Louisiana and has resided in the New Orleans Metro area the majority of his life. He currently holds a B.A. in History from the University of New Orleans and will graduate from Arkansas State University with his M.S.E. in Educational Leadership in May 2013. On his journey to finding a career in special education, Jason has spent time cooking with Jamie Shannon former Executive Chef of Commander’s Palace, working as a Police Officer for the City of Kenner, and managing the New Orleans region for T-Mobile USA. In 2006, Jason graduated from the Teach Greater New Orleans program, received his teacher’s certification and began working for St. Bernard Parish Public Schools. There he focused on serving students with low-incidence disabilities by managing their curriculum and developing transition plans aimed at fulfilling student and parent goals and needs. He worked with the Louisiana Assistive Technology Initiative and coordinated assistive technology services for St. Bernard Parish from 2009 to 2012. After his completion of a SUNS Center Leadership Fellowship in 2010 he accepted the position of Instructional Facilitator. Jason continues to love working with his students and finding new and innovative ways to better their educations through the use of technology.
If you have spent any time at all in recent professional development sessions for teachers, you have almost certainly run across the term Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The term applies to reaching and engaging all types of learners through the use of innovative and a multi-sensory approach. It’s a great idea that I feel all educators should strive to achieve, but it can be a... More →
In an earlier resource, I discussed how you could use your Xperia tablet as a wireless microphone in order to dictate to text with Dragon. This is still a fabulous speech-to-text program, but it has two distinct drawbacks. First, you can not dictate directly into the tablet, rather it remotely transmits to a desktop or laptop computer which has Dragon Dictation installed on it. Second, Dragon is... More →
As a special educator one of the most easily addressed disabilities I've encountered is visual impairment; however, it is also one the most overlooked. This statement is in no way intended to minimize the challenges students with visual impairments face. It is simply intended to point out the wide range of magnification and access tools available to students in today's technologically advanced world. Despite this, I... More →
So it’s day one of a new unit on punctuation and grammatical usage. You have twenty students that you expect to have a working command of commas, periods, quotation marks, and everything in between by the end of the next grading period. Where do you start? What do these kids already know, and what are they totally unaware of? You can craft a pre-test... More →
What Is It? Class Dojo is a robust behavior tracking and management application designed for teachers and parents which allows a teacher to create a customized icon for each student. These icons can then be used to attribute either positive or negative behavior marks towards individual students or even the entire class. As a I stated previously, this app can be highly individualized, but let’s... More →
Throughout the majority of most educators careers augmentative alternative communication devices (AAC’s) have been both limited in number and rather hefty in price. Rigid solutions such as Go Talks could range up to $300 and were toy-ish in appearance without the ability to customize very much at all. More Robust options could literally be thousands of dollars, and while well made, stood out as different from technology... More →
If your situation is similar to many I have encountered in multiple school districts around the country, BIP tracking looks different in each school you visit, heck sometimes in every classroom you visit. There are charts, tally sheets, narratives, and every type of tracking mechanism under the sun, but if not every teacher is using the same method it is very hard to turn any of the data that... More →
While Dragon Dication by Nuance is not the only dictation application on the market, in this educators opinion, it is the most polished and one of the most widely used. If you are not familiar with this type of program it is simple to explain: you say it and the program types it. For fellow special educators and general education teachers alike, this probably elicits a Scooby Doo-like... More →
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