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Athens, Ohio, United States
I work in the library at Ohio University. My hobby is almost any kind of cooking. I love to make bread, I am learning to make artisan chocolates and I am the Dessert queen of the library. Interestingly, I don't particularly like sweets myself, I just love to make them for others.

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Special Needs Students and IT

After much searching, I found several podcasts that I thought both interesting and relevant. My daughter teaches in a school exclusively for students with special needs. Most if not all of these students will never live independently, read, write or talk. This does not mean that they can never learn anything or experience the real world. IT can help these special students achieve all they can. The titles are: Overview of Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities: From Theory to Application and Learning Disabilities and the Power of Assistive Technology.

YouTube video

I, like several others, had difficulty finding videos I thought interesting on YouTube. Perhaps it was the sheer multitude of choices in so many categories, but I finally found one I thought interesting for me and my chocolate making hobby. I liked seeing good chocolate being tempered and molded, and I liked the fact that the star of this video did not hesitate to throw the molded chocolate back if there was a quality control issue. The video is called Chocolate: A Minister's Daughter.