Good morning Tek-Ninjas! As a lover of all things "Ninja" I am easily engaged by things with "ninja-osity". Yes. I made that word up. But you know what I mean.
Multiple Adjustments
One of the Smarty Ears apps that I've been so impressed with is called "Sentence Ninja". It is a very powerful education tool, which teaches sentence and grammar skills, all the while recording data. It retails for only $19.99.
Customizable
Per the app designer: "Sentence Ninja is a multi-player multi-level app designed to improve sentence structure skills in children and adults. Designed by a certified speech-language pathologist." The app teaches syntax, aka, word order.
Sentence Ninja is easily and very customizable to fit most learner's needs. Used in conjunction with a therapist's clinical reasoning, it can be a powerful teaching tool. With 39 levels ranging from simple to complex phrases, syntax teaching can be fun and effective.
Hey Tek-Ninjas! Last blog I mentioned that I was excited by several of the offerings from Smarty Ears. Today, I'm blogging about their app Therapy Report Center (TRC).
TRC seems to have been designed specifically with SLP's in mind, but I think it easily can be utilized by Occupational and Physical Therapists. If you are a clinician looking for a way to document your treatment and service delivery, this app may be the answer. TRC is compatible on your iPad. Incidentally, it's free.
With TRC you can individually add each student you work with. You can include a photo of the student, and input the individualized goals into their profile.
The app is specifically designed to integrate with and collate data from other Smarty Ears apps, but I believe it could be used easily for tracking service delivery, and generating reports easily. The interface is intuitive, and elegant. Sending data via email and Airdrop is seamless.
Per the Smarty Ears website: TRC is the perfect accompaniment for data collection in Response to Intervention (RTI). By allowing the professional to input all students (not just those on IEPs), the actual number of student’s being seen is tracked. In addition, each student’s goals are unique and individualized. Because data is tracked as often as the professional desires, TRC allows the professional to monitor interventions and the student’s progress over time. Data collection has never been easier!
So take a look at Therapy Report Center, it may simplify your work for you. Hajimè!
Hey Tek-Ninjas! Those of you who have been in the field for awhile will remember Choose It! Maker
(CIM). Originally CIM was software you installed onto your computer. CIM allowed users to create customized learning materials relatively quickly using personal photos, symbols, text, and sounds to create any cause & effect or choice making activities you could imagine. The end product would then be used on the computer it was made on.
Well, the folks at HelpKidzLearn have made the product more powerful, while also easier than ever to use. Now, Choose It! Maker 3 is an online, subscription based product. You make customized learning materials in minutes which can be accessed by any computer (PC, Mac, Linux) with internet capability, as well as on the free apps available for your iPad or android tablet.
Subscriptions are available for individuals or larger organizations.
Hey Tek-Ninjas! Here is a quick tip that my 13 year old shared with me.
If you have Yosemite operating system on your Mac, AND the iOS8 or newer on your iPad, iTouch, or iPhone, you can share what ever is on your iPad screen to your computer, even recording your work if you choose.
So with over a hundred iDevices out in my district I have been getting quite a few frayed charger cables back. They are expensive to replace when you add them up. And it's a nuisance.
I have begun wrapping my cables preemptively. I find that they tend to fray where the cable enters the iPad end. So, I take about 4 inches of duct-tape and wrap it snugly.
This will hopefully help protect the cables, and they have also proven to be incredibly useful in plugging in iPads which have a Big Grips case on them. The only complaint staff have had for the Big Grips, is that the charging port is recessed in the casing, and sometimes hard to plug in.
Good morning Tek-Ninjas! As a lover of all things "Ninja" I am easily engaged by things with "ninja-osity". Yes. I made that word up. But you know what I mean. 
