08:43:45 Being this is a test of the captioning system. 08:43:47 This is only a test. 09:00:20 >> BRIAN NORTON: Hello, everyone. This is Brian 09:00:23 Norton. And I'm the Director of Assistive 09:00:26 technology here at Easterseals Crossroads. We 09:00:28 still have folks joining us online here. So we're 09:00:31 going to give them a couple of more minutes to 09:00:33 jump online and then we'll get started for the 09:00:38 day. Thank you for being early birds and joining 09:00:42 us here at 9:00. So we're looking forward to the 09:00:44 day. We think it's going to be a lot of fun. And 09:00:47 so I'll be back in just a couple of minutes. 09:00:52 We'll let some more folks get online here and work 09:00:55 through the technical details of joining us here 09:00:58 on Zoom. So we'll be back in just a couple 09:01:14 minutes. 09:04:09 All right, everyone, we're going to go ahead and 09:04:11 get started for the day. Again my name is Brian 09:04:14 Norton, and I'm the Director of Assistive 09:04:17 technology here at Easterseals Crossroads and with 09:04:20 the INDATA Project. And I want to extend a warm 09:04:22 welcome to you. Thank you for joining us on this 09:04:28 Friday, July 10th, 2020, for our AT 101 series. 09:04:31 And today we're going to be talking about apps, 09:04:36 apps and apps. I want to mention our program 09:04:38 sponsor and we'll talk more about the program 09:04:41 sponsor today, that's the INDATA Project. Which 09:04:45 is Indiana's Assistive Technology Act program, 09:04:48 which is based here in Easterseals Crossroads here 09:04:51 in Indianapolis. But we're so glad that you've 09:04:55 taken some time to just join us this morning and 09:04:57 throughout the rest of the day our training will 09:05:01 go until 3 p.m. this afternoon. We've got some 09:05:07 really neat apps to show you today to kind of talk 09:05:11 about apps and how they relate to persons with 09:05:14 disabilities and helping us promote independence 09:05:19 for folks. So, welcome to joining us today. 09:05:22 I want to mention, for folks who are wanting 09:05:26 captions, on your -- you probably already made it 09:05:28 to the webinar, so you don't have to really worry 09:05:32 about the website there. But you can click the 09:05:37 CC button on the bottom of your basically Zoom 09:05:39 control panel, if you will, to be able to bring up 09:05:42 captions. 09:05:46 In a note about captions. Captions can be resized 09:05:53 if you would like. To do that, on your bar, you 09:05:55 should be able to see some sort of a settings 09:05:58 option. And you should be able to then go to 09:06:02 settings, and then under accessibility settings, 09:06:04 you should be able to improve the size using a 09:06:08 slider bar to make your captions bigger. 09:06:11 And so if that's a need, we can walk you through 09:06:15 that or put something in the Q & A section and we 09:06:17 can kind of help give you steps to make that 09:06:19 happen. 09:06:21 But captions are available. I want to thank Kathy 09:06:25 from Voice to Print for being here today and 09:06:28 helping us out with that. They're a great 09:06:31 company. She's a great person. And so thankful 09:06:33 that she's helping us capture the training that 09:06:35 we're doing today. 09:06:38 So, a couple of things. 09:06:42 Let me jump in. 09:06:44 I just want to -- we've already done the welcome. 09:06:46 So we've knocked one thing off of our list this 09:06:48 morning. 09:06:50 The next thing I want to talk about is CEUs. I 09:06:54 recognize that a lot of folks are joining us and 09:06:57 are excited to be able to receive CEUs for this 09:06:58 online training. 09:07:02 For us to be able to give you CEUs, and I'll have 09:07:04 some additional information here in a couple 09:07:06 slides about next steps for CEUs, but the first 09:07:09 thing that we ask is that people log in with their 09:07:12 first and last name within the first 10 minutes of 09:07:14 the training. That just helps us know and keep 09:07:16 track of who's here. 09:07:19 If you didn't log in with your first name and last 09:07:25 name, you can go to your window and rename 09:07:28 yourself with your first and last name. 09:07:32 Or if you're not able do that, please just put 09:07:36 that in the imvment & A what your first name and 09:07:39 last name is and we'll be sure to mark that down 09:07:42 on our attendance sheet. If you could do that for 09:07:45 us, that would be great. That just helps us be 09:07:48 able to turn in an attendance sheet to the folks 09:07:51 that are helping us with our CEUs, which is the 09:07:53 AAC institute. 09:07:56 We're going to be doing a quick poll here in a 09:07:59 second just to get to know you better. So we'll 09:08:01 get to that in just a second. 09:08:04 But then we're also going to take a look at a few 09:08:07 housekeeping items. This is kind of a New World 09:08:09 we're living in. Usually if you've been to our 09:08:12 trainings before, we host you in person and 09:08:15 online. And so it's just a great way for us to 09:08:18 get in the same room together, net work with 09:08:20 people who are like-minded and have the same 09:08:23 purpose in mind with trying to kind of, again, 09:08:25 help folks with disabilities be more independent. 09:08:27 It could be at school. It could be at work. It 09:08:30 could be at home. Lots of different places. But 09:08:32 we don't get that opportunity anymore. 09:08:35 And so at least at this point. Hopefully that 09:08:37 will come back to us soon. 09:08:39 But really excited to be able to kind of use Zoom 09:08:46 as our platform today and be able to connect with 09:08:47 folks and present content that I think will be 09:08:52 helpful as girs kind of go back out, wherever you 09:08:58 might go, to be able to help the folks around you. 09:09:02 So I want to run through the agenda today to give 09:09:04 you the overview of what to expect. 09:09:06 Right now we're kind of heading into this welcome 09:09:09 and introductions, about a third of the way 09:09:11 through that. And then I'm going to spend a 09:09:13 little bit of time just jumping into some 09:09:16 introductions to apps, apps that have really 09:09:19 shaped and changed the world we live in. And so 09:09:21 we want to talk just a little bit about apps and 09:09:25 the impact that mobile devices have on our lives. 09:09:29 And then from there, we're going to jump into apps 09:09:33 for communication. So for folks that need 09:09:35 assistance with help communicating with others, 09:09:38 looking at those. 09:09:42 And then from 11 to noon, we're going to look at 09:09:46 apps for learning. Then we'll jump into lunch. 09:09:49 We're going to break for lunch. 09:09:52 I won't stop the recording or stop the webinar and 09:09:55 then restart it. I'll just keep it going, but you 09:09:59 can just go ahead and we'll pause our recording 09:10:02 and just go from there. But from 12 to 12:45 09:10:07 we'll have lunch. And then from 12:45 to 2:00. 09:10:10 We'll look at apps for live. And then from 2 to 09:10:15 3, we've got someone from Bridging Apps. Amy from 09:10:17 Bridging Apps is going to be joining us, and we'll 09:10:20 talk a little bit more about her program, someone 09:10:22 that you want to be familiar with. 09:10:25 So we've got a really jampacked agenda. And I 09:10:29 think it's going to be really fun and exciting to 09:10:31 kind of see what we've got today. 09:10:34 One thing I will note. We are on Zoom. We have 09:10:36 lots of different folks that are going to kind of 09:10:40 come in and come out in this new world of online 09:10:44 trainings and webinars and other types of things, 09:10:47 I'd just ask for some grace to be extended our 09:10:51 way. You know, we will have to transition screens 09:10:53 and stop one share and start another share and 09:10:56 those types of things. So just keep in mind that 09:10:58 those things will happen. 09:11:01 But, we hope that we've kind of smoothed out a lot 09:11:05 of the hiccups that might come our way. So just 09:11:08 know that we've tried to minimize those things. 09:11:10 And it shouldn't be too much of an interruption 09:11:12 today. 09:11:16 So on the Zoom control panel, here's a couple of 09:11:19 different things. Your control panel should look 09:11:21 a little bit like this. We mentioned about the 09:11:24 captions and making those biggers. So if you 09:11:28 click on audio settings, you should be able to go 09:11:31 to accessibility settings. There should be a 09:11:33 slider bar to make those captions better. To show 09:11:37 captions, press the CC button on the bottom there. 09:11:38 If you have questions, we have disabled the chat 09:11:42 today. And so you won't be able to use the chat, 09:11:44 but you can post your questions in the Q & A. And 09:11:47 we are going to be monitoring the Q & A and trying 09:11:49 to answer those questions. 09:11:51 A lot of those questions we'll be able to answer 09:11:55 just with the a response. Just right there within 09:11:58 the Q & A area. If there's a question that the 09:12:01 speaker needs to answer, I'll probably just take 09:12:03 that question, chime in on the presentation and 09:12:05 just ask the question for you so it can be 09:12:07 answered live. But we're going to push all 09:12:10 questions to the Q & A. 09:12:14 But we do -- questions are so helpful when we 09:12:15 present on information because we are most 09:12:18 interested in getting you the information that you 09:12:21 need. And so if you have questions, don't be 09:12:24 hesitant to put a question into that Q & A. 09:12:27 Again, we're going to be monitoring that and 09:12:29 paying close attention and trying to get you guys, 09:12:32 again, what's most important to you, the 09:12:34 information that you need and want. 09:12:37 So just know that that is there. 09:12:41 I want to mention a couple of things just about 09:12:45 full-day trainings. On August 21st we have our 09:12:48 last full-day training of calendar year 2020. 09:12:51 It's going to be on mobile device accessibility. 09:12:54 And so today we're looking at apps as it relate to 09:12:57 mobile devices. 09:12:59 In August, we're going to be taking a look at the 09:13:03 built-in accessibility, both Android and iOS. And 09:13:07 we're really excited to bring Ben Jacobs in to 09:13:11 speak on that. Ben is from -- is a friend of our 09:13:15 agency, a friend of INDATA, has presented to us 09:13:19 before, does a really great job of doing that. 09:13:22 And he is going to be joining us. He's from 09:13:24 Georgia. And just glad to be able to have him 09:13:28 back. So that's August 21st. 09:13:31 If you're interested in past trainings, you'll 09:13:34 notice the website there. It's 09:13:39 eastersealstech.com/fulldayarchives. You can out 09:13:41 all of our past trainings. I believe we've got 09:13:45 them archived through 2013. So check out those 09:13:48 trainings., if you will. 09:13:52 And then if you're really interested in learning 09:13:55 more about these, instead of through word of mouth 09:13:58 or other areas, we encourage people to sign up for 09:14:01 our listserve. Our listserve is a way for you to 09:14:06 getle information about future trainings. I also 09:14:09 note to people that we don't spam folks. You're 09:14:13 going to get limited information from us. But 09:14:15 mostly it's just telling you about upcoming 09:14:17 trainings and events that we have coming 09:14:19 throughout the year that might be of interest to 09:14:23 you. And so if you go to eastersealstech.com, on 09:14:27 the right-hand side currently there's an email 09:14:30 listserve. You can just plug in your email 09:14:32 address and it signs you up and then you'll get 09:14:34 information from us. 09:14:39 Also, just to note, we are looking for 2021 09:14:41 topics. We are always interested in providing you 09:14:45 guys the information that you want to know about 09:14:47 and learn about. And so if you have topics you 09:14:50 would like us to cover, please put those up in the 09:14:53 followup survey. When we end the Zoom meeting at 09:14:57 the end of the day, a secondary browser window 09:15:01 will pop up for you with a survey asking you to 09:15:05 just comment and provide feedback on the training 09:15:06 today. 09:15:08 Please take time to do that. That's so valuable 09:15:12 to us as we plan for the future and as we develop 09:15:17 new trainings. Please let us know your thoughts 09:15:21 and provide your feedback to us. We really, 09:15:24 really love that. So appreciate that. 09:15:32 So here's the steps for collecting CEUs. I know a 09:15:34 lot of people are here and want those. Already, 09:15:38 we covered step 1 earlier, logging with your first 09:15:40 and last name within the first 10 minutes of the 09:15:43 training, maybe you didn't get a chance to, maybe 09:15:46 you didn't log in with your first and last name, 09:15:48 you can go ahead and put your first and last name 09:15:52 into the Q & A. We're monitoring those and kind 09:15:54 of marking those up as we see those come through. 09:15:57 So if you signed in with a first initial last 09:16:00 name, we need your full first name and your full 09:16:03 last name. That's helpful for us in being able to 09:16:05 complete the attendance sheet that's required by 09:16:07 our CEU provider. 09:16:10 A couple of other things you'll need, step two. A 09:16:15 CEU quiz. So you'll need to download the quiz he 09:16:24 quiz. That's the link there. 09:16:25 Bit.ly/July2020CEUQuiz. 09:16:28 You can download that quiz. That's a quiz you're 09:16:31 going to have to take when you go to the 09:16:34 AAC Institute to be able to fill out the CEU form. 09:16:36 I would encourage you to possibly go ahead and do 09:16:38 it now and then record your answers throughout the 09:16:42 training. 09:16:47 The AAC institute website there is there, as well, 09:16:50 that's where you go register for the CEUs. And 09:16:54 then if you have any issue whatsoever with CEUs, 09:16:57 Nikol Prieto is our coordinator here with the 09:17:01 INDATA Project and coordinates with the 09:17:03 AAC Institute, and she can help you with that and 09:17:05 that's her email address right there. 09:17:10 Just a quick note about CEUs. 09:17:13 Any paperwork, so 09:17:16 anything at the AAC Institute must be completed in 09:17:20 the first 60 days or there's a $10 processing fee. 09:17:23 And that $10 doesn't come to Easterseals 09:17:27 Crossroads, that's for the AAC Institute. And so 09:17:31 we would encourage you guys to get online quickly 09:17:34 afterwards. I don't know about you, but I'm 09:17:37 sometimes a procrastinator when it comes to CEUs 09:17:40 and I forget. And I would hate for folks to get 09:17:43 stuck with the $10 processing fee. So just keep 09:17:46 that in mind. You've got to complete it within 09:17:49 the first 60 days or there will be a $10 fee with 09:17:51 that. 09:17:57 Le any questions so far? I'll keep my eye on the 09:18:01 Q & A and see if there's any questions. 09:18:06 I will slow down just a bit, absolutely. 09:18:08 Give 09:18:13 folks a second to put in any questions in there 09:18:14 for me. 09:18:21 Okay. I don't see anything there, so we're going 09:18:24 to move on. I want to tell you a little bit about 09:18:28 the sponsor for today's program. The sponsor is 09:18:31 INDATA. That's the Indiana Assistive Technology 09:18:37 Act program, the state AT program for Indiana. 09:18:40 To give you a little background about what INDATA 09:18:44 is all about, we are one of 56 projects across the 09:18:47 United States and the U.S. territories. So every 09:18:50 state and every territory has a project just like 09:18:53 ours. 09:18:58 So it doesn't really matter where you are, there 09:19:02 is a program that does exactly what we do, or much 09:19:06 of what we do, in your area. 09:19:08 You can find more information on that -- and I 09:19:12 should probably put the website on the screen here 09:19:15 so folks can find their local Assistive Technology 09:19:19 Act program. But you can go to 09:19:24 eastersealstech.com/states to be able to find 09:19:28 that. And, again, that's 09:19:30 eastersealstech.com/states. 09:19:37 As far as the INDATA Project is concerned, we are 09:19:39 federally funded through Health and Human Services 09:19:43 and the administration on community living. We 09:19:46 have two overarching goals here with the INDATA 09:19:49 Project. And the first is to spread the word 09:19:53 about assistive technology, making sure folks know 09:19:58 about the great things they can offer folks. 09:20:04 And you can -- we also tell you not only what the 09:20:08 benefits are but how it works, where you can get 09:20:11 your hands on it and those types of things. So we 09:20:15 spread the word about assistive technology as one 09:20:17 of our main overarching goals. 09:20:19 The second overarching goal that we have is to 09:20:22 really work hard to get people's hands on 09:20:25 technology, as well. When we do that, those are 09:20:28 called our outreach -- I'm sorry, our access and 09:20:30 acquisition activities. And we're going to dig 09:20:33 into those a little bit here. 09:20:35 So, as far as outreach and information, how do we 09:20:38 get the word out about assistive technology? 09:20:41 Well, we do that in a variety of ways. Here's a 09:20:44 couple of different subheadings for ways that we 09:20:45 do that. 09:20:49 We do a lot of information and referral. Again, 09:20:51 we're Indiana's Assistive Technology Act, so we 09:20:55 work specifically here in Indiana. Other project 09:20:57 in other states and territories do some of these 09:21:01 same things. So information referral. If you 09:21:04 have assistive technology question, an 09:21:06 accommodation question or just a general 09:21:10 informational question about how to be helpful to 09:21:13 somebody or needing help with something, we just 09:21:16 want folks to give us a call. So we have a 1-800 09:21:20 number set up here. You can email us, as well. 09:21:22 And then we will work hard with you to be able to 09:21:25 find a way to be able to connect with you with 09:21:28 resources that could be helpful. It is 09:21:30 potentially something that we could do internally 09:21:34 with INDATA, or we also have Partners throughout 09:21:37 the state with which we can refer you to to be 09:21:40 able to help you get the assistance that you might 09:21:41 need. 09:21:46 Other things that we do is we also do AT hours. 09:21:48 AT hours are basically one hour experiences where 09:21:53 we can come to talk with you, a small group, you 09:21:56 know, if you belong to any support groups or 09:21:59 whatever, if you have a group of folks that are 09:22:02 just interested in learning more about assistive 09:22:07 technology, you can give us a call, let us know. 09:22:10 And we're happy to come to you, talk about the 09:22:13 INDATA Project, the services we provide, and 09:22:17 provide you a hands-on AT experience with some 09:22:19 devices. We bring equipment with us and we'll 09:22:22 work with you and help demonstrate those to you, 09:22:25 get your hands on it. 09:22:28 We also do full-day trainings. That's what we're 09:22:31 doing today. We do four or five of those a year. 09:22:33 With streaming. At this point it's only 09:22:36 streaming. So but we're going to continue to do 09:22:37 our full-day trainings. 09:22:41 We also do a lot of podcasting and social media. 09:22:45 In fact, I think if asked, as far as what our 09:22:49 project does in those two arenas, kind of as a 09:22:54 unique identifier or differentiator with us, and 09:22:59 some of our counterparts, we have three podcasts. 09:23:02 AT update. Accessibility Minute. And ATFAQ, if 09:23:05 purchase' in to listening to podcasts in any way, 09:23:10 shape or form, these are great ones to listen to. 09:23:12 AT Update provides you news and information about 09:23:14 what's happening in the world of assistive 09:23:17 technology. 09:23:19 Accessibility Minute provides you just kind of a 09:23:25 quick one-minute update about maybe a news story; 09:23:29 but more so, just products that are out there that 09:23:32 might be of interest to you and the folks that you 09:23:32 serve. 09:23:36 And then ATFAQ, this is a real interactive one 09:23:39 where we receive feedback and questions from 09:23:44 people all over the world. I think 160 different 09:23:47 countries last that we looked. And folks submit 09:23:50 their assistive technology questions to us. And 09:23:53 then we sit down as a team here at Easterseals 09:23:57 Crossroads, and we just kind of talk about them 09:23:59 and try to figure out solutions, provide some 09:24:02 answers and then it's really turned into a great 09:24:05 way to bring community around answering questions 09:24:08 about assistive technology and accommodations that 09:24:09 people need. 09:24:12 We are also very active in social media through 09:24:17 our blog, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. So check 09:24:21 us out. Eastersealstech.com is where we're at. 09:24:25 And you can find out more information on that. 09:24:27 >> NIKOL PRIETO: Hey, Brian, we've got several 09:24:32 folks that would like the quiz posted in there. 09:24:34 And a couple questions saying the link doesn't 09:24:38 work. And I just wanted to reiterate that it's a 09:24:41 download, so you might want to check your download 09:24:41 files. 09:24:44 >> BRIAN NORTON: Correct. And I'll post that 09:24:47 link here in just a few minutes. Sound good? 09:24:49 >> NIKOL PRIETO: Sounds great. 09:24:51 >> BRIAN NORTON: Awesome. 09:24:56 Just a couple. I want to draw some attention to 09:24:58 our website a little bit, point people to some 09:25:00 different things on our website. We have a lot of 09:25:02 resources. So, again, another part of that 09:25:06 outreach information, we have a resources hub on 09:25:22 our website. Easterseals tech the.com. We have 09:25:25 lots of topics and different aspects of assistive 09:25:27 technology. Something that we've started to 09:25:29 collect over the past year or two. And we've got 09:25:32 a pretty good list of library of some different 09:25:35 downloads that folks did choose from. We have an 09:25:38 AT funding guide there. Information about an 09:25:42 online support group for Facebook that's 09:25:44 specifically for folks with brain injury and 09:25:47 specifically looks at technology and educational 09:25:48 supports. 09:25:57 A look at our past annual AT champion. And a 09:25:59 highlight in our August training, we'll be 09:26:05 awarding our 2020 AT Champion award but we had 09:26:09 'love for you to check that out. We think there's 09:26:11 some great information, lots of information 09:26:14 related to assistive technology in our resource 09:26:14 hub. 09:26:17 The other thing I want to point out, too, is next 09:26:20 to that on our website we've been collecting lots 09:26:23 of COVID-19 information, helpful information for 09:26:25 folks, specifically related to assistive 09:26:29 technology and resources for folks given the 09:26:32 unique situation that we all find ourselves in in 09:26:33 this time. 09:26:36 And so underneath there, you'll always get updates 09:26:39 about our services and what's happening as it 09:26:43 relates to COVID-19, how we're handling it, and 09:26:45 what we're doing to continue to provide high 09:26:47 quality services in this new environment that we 09:26:49 operate in. 09:26:53 You'll also find resources for persons with 09:26:56 disabilities list. That was actually a link over 09:26:59 to Georgia Tools for Life, our counterpart in 09:27:02 Georgia. They collected a really great list of 09:27:05 different resources for persons with disabilities 09:27:08 during this time. And so we link over to them for 09:27:10 that. 09:27:14 We have some visual communication cards for the 09:27:16 deaf and hard-of-hearing specifically related to 09:27:19 COVID-19. That was put out by deaf and 09:27:21 hard-of-hearing services at FSSA. And we went 09:27:24 ahead and put those on our website so that folks 09:27:26 can download and see. 09:27:28 We have a social story for folks who may have a 09:27:32 difficult time understanding what COVID-19's all 09:27:35 about and why things have changed so drastically. 09:27:39 So there's a link to a social story there. Also 09:27:42 ergo tips for working from home. We all find 09:27:44 ourselves working in different places these days. 09:27:54 And that's not always the easiest. We also have 09:27:57 tips for cleaning. Cleaning devices and things 09:27:59 like that, making sure your technology is clean. 09:28:04 So, anyways, just wanted to make sure you're aware 09:28:07 of some of those things and point you to our 09:28:11 website to learn more about that. 09:28:13 A couple other things just to mention, as well. 09:28:17 Our demo and loan library or loan program, we 09:28:20 talked about the second thing that we do as a 09:28:22 program is really work hard to get things in 09:28:26 people's hands, let them try it and work with that 09:28:29 technology. See a picture of Justin. Justin is 09:28:33 our loan library coordinator. And in our library, 09:28:35 we have all sorts of devices for persons with 09:28:39 visual, cognitive, hearing, mobility or learning 09:28:41 or other impairments. 09:28:44 What that essentially means is demos are really 20 09:28:47 to 30-minute test drives. We will go to your door 09:28:50 anywhere in the State of Indiana. If you would 09:28:52 like to see a particular product and see it 09:28:54 demonstrated, let us know. We'll come to your 09:28:57 door, give you a 20 or 30-minute test drive of 09:29:00 that equipment. And then with the lending 09:29:04 library, we're able to then provide that to you. 09:29:08 And so we can lend it to you for 30-day loans free 09:29:11 of charge. It's like borrowing a book from the 09:29:14 library. So you can borrow it for 30 days, try it 09:29:17 out. I think it's really important for folks to 09:29:19 really figure out if it's going to work and fit 09:29:22 into the rhythm of their daily lives. I don't 09:29:25 know about you, but I've lot lots of things over 09:29:28 the things over the years that I thought would be 09:29:31 the greatest thing since sliced bread and realized 09:29:33 they don't and check dust or end up in the trash 09:29:36 can. We don't want folks do that with assistive 09:29:38 technology. So having the opportunity to try it 09:29:41 before you buy it can sometimes be a real life 09:29:45 saver for folks. 09:29:51 Here's an example. It's just a 09:29:54 screenshot of our online library. So, again, in 09:29:57 this contactless world that we live in a little 09:29:59 bit, I wanted to bring up and show you what the 09:30:03 online loan library looks like. The website is 09:30:06 down there on the bottom of the screen. You can 09:30:13 also go to eastersealstech.com/library to see it, 09:30:17 as well. There's a link for it there. But, 09:30:21 really, it's a great place, it's an intuitive 09:30:22 interface that can help you find the equipment 09:30:25 you're looking for. It allows you to search by 09:30:27 key word or category. When you find an item that 09:30:32 you would like to borrow, you can Bach mark it. 09:30:36 And then -- bookmark it. And then once you're 09:30:38 done bookmarking items, you can request the loan. 09:30:41 That puts one of our -- that puts Justin or Steve 09:30:45 in there and will essentially they'll walk you 09:30:47 through that process and help you get the 09:30:49 equipment that you're needing. 09:30:56 So, real simple, easy to yoorks but I thought I'd 09:31:02 put it up here so people could check it out. 09:31:05 We're Indiana's program. We're unable to loan 09:31:09 outside of the state. And so we can refer you on 09:31:13 to other projects in other states and other 09:31:17 territories if you aren't within Indiana. 09:31:22 I do see a question about posting the slide deck 09:31:27 and video. We will. If after this training, give 09:31:31 us a few days, probably by midweek next week, 09:31:35 we'll have it edited and posted to our training 09:31:42 archives site. So it's 09:31:45 eastersealstech.com/fulldayarchives. You'll be 09:31:50 able to find it there 09:31:53 . All right. The other 09:31:55 thing I want to make mention of is the depot. We 09:31:59 have a reuse program that's part of the INDATA 09:32:03 Project, as well. We take in donated older 09:32:05 assistive technology and older computers. And we 09:32:09 work to refurbish those and provide those free of 09:32:12 charge back out to folks who need it. So if you 09:32:15 are in need of a -- specifically let's talk about 09:32:18 donated computers, we wipe those computers of all 09:32:21 their previous data. We bring them up to a 09:32:24 certain benchmark with regard to ram and hard 09:32:28 drive and processing speed, install a fresh copy 09:32:32 of Microsoft Office and a fresh copy of Windows 10 09:32:34 and then we give those away to folks with 09:32:36 disabilities throughout the state. 09:32:39 This is an application-based program. And so if a 09:32:42 person has a need, they have to fill out an 09:32:44 application. And then they get put on a waiting 09:32:48 list. And as computers become available, we will 09:32:50 distribute them to those individuals. 09:32:53 Again, this is for residents of Indiana. And we 09:32:56 do require a document of disability with that 09:32:59 program. 09:33:04 Last thing I'll mention as far as getting your 09:33:06 hands on technology-wise is the alternative 09:33:09 financing program. We have a low-interest, 09:33:12 extended-term financial loan program here with 09:33:15 INDATA, which allows you to be able to I don't it 09:33:18 for a variety -- use it for a variety of things. 09:33:22 You can borrow between 500 and $35,000. So if 09:33:24 you're interested and don't have the funds to 09:33:29 purchase an iPad, you could purchase that at the 09:33:32 low end of what we offer. Or if you have a 09:33:36 vehicle mod or a home mod or those types of 09:33:39 things, obviously with it going up to $35,000, a 09:33:43 lot of those things become within reach for folks. 09:33:46 Again, qualifications, you have to be an Indiana 09:33:49 resident and have a documented disability. But 09:33:51 it's real simple and easy to get started. You can 09:33:55 give us a call. We'll have you complete a loan 09:33:59 application. Then we work with star financial, 09:34:04 which is a local bank based out of Fort Wayne to 09:34:07 help us process those. And so if you're 09:34:10 interested and want to learn more, give us a call. 09:34:13 We'd love to talk with you about that. But it's 09:34:15 really just a resource for folks to minimize the 09:34:18 amount of the payment that they would have to make 09:34:21 for a much-needed item to help them be more 09:34:24 independent. So low interest, extended-term 09:34:27 financial loans. 09:34:30 All in all, basically in summary, if you have an 09:34:33 accommodation or assistive technology question, 09:34:36 give us a call. We'd love to talk with you, help 09:34:41 you find resources that you can plug into. And so 09:34:43 give us a call. Our phone number's there. Our 09:34:47 email address is there. And our web address is 09:34:50 there, as well, to learn more about what we have 09:34:53 available there. 09:34:55 So I'm going to pause for just a second again to 09:35:12 see if there's any questions about INDATA 09:35:14 You 09:35:17 don't see anything coming in quite yet. I want to 09:35:22 get to know you. I'm going to launch a poll here. 09:35:31 And I'm going to allow. I will give you time to fill 09:35:33 that out. There's four questions. We're always 09:35:39 interested in knowing who our first-time 09:35:46 attendees. Who you are, what best describes you. 09:35:49 We'd also love to know how many of our folks who 09:35:52 are attending are collecting CEUs. 09:35:54 And then also for today's purposes, really 09:35:57 interested in knowing what kind of devices do you 09:36:00 use? We're talking about apps and apps from one 09:36:04 device to another device. Although there are lots 09:36:08 of different apps and a lot of them work on 09:36:10 cross-platforms. We want to be able know what 09:36:14 people are using. And so take a look at that and 09:36:18 just give folks an opportunity to respond. 09:36:24 There 09:36:26 we go. 09:36:39 Give folks just another couple seconds to work 09:36:41 their way through it. 09:36:46 I did see a question come in and it says, 09:36:48 "basically I use both devices but that option 09:36:50 isn't available." 09:36:52 I probably should have put that. That's a good 09:36:53 point. 09:36:56 Great. 09:37:03 So I'm going to go ahead and 09:37:05 End the poll and we'll talk about. 09:37:07 40 percent of our attendees are first-time 09:37:09 attendees. I want to say a special welcome to 09:37:13 you. We have folks all over the map. 09:37:16 Representatives of education seem to be the 09:37:19 highest. So about 24 percent of our folks are 09:37:25 from education. About 17 represent employment. 09:37:29 16 percent represent health. And then we also 09:37:32 have family members, individuals with 09:37:36 disabilities, as well. And then also 12 percent 09:37:40 of our folks are from IT, represent the IT world. 09:37:42 So welcome. Thank you for being here. 09:37:45 As far as collecting CEUs, we've got 40 percent of 09:37:48 the folks collecting CEUs. And as far as what 09:37:53 type of smartphone or tablet do you use, 09:37:56 73 percent say Apple. 21 percent say Android. 09:38:01 And 5 percent say other. So, excellent. Thank 09:38:04 you, guys, for participating in that. That helps 09:38:06 give us good information and will help us as we 09:38:12 jump into today's presentations. 09:38:20 So I'm going to jump in and start talking about 09:38:26 mobile devices and apps. And I know in the agenda 09:38:30 for today, it talked about an intro to a.m.s. But 09:38:34 I don't think you can talk about apps without teal 09:38:37 the king about devices. Really, I was surprised, 09:38:39 we didn't plan it this way, but we're actually 09:38:42 celebrating an anniversary today. This is 09:38:45 actually the 12th year anniversary today of the 09:38:50 apple app store opening up. And so July 10, 2008 09:38:53 was when the Apple app store opened. And at that 09:38:58 point, it actually opened with only 500 apps. 09:39:01 Compared to now where there's 2.2 million apps 09:39:06 available on the Apple app store. But today is an 09:39:10 anniversary of sorts for the Apple app store. And 09:39:14 as we talk about mobile devices and apps, I firmly 09:39:18 believe they are so planted in our space and in 09:39:22 what we do day in and day out, they really 09:39:27 revolutionize the way we interact with people and 09:39:31 things and really have impacted the way we get 09:39:33 things done. 09:39:36 And certainly with the world of assistive 09:39:39 technology, they've impacted our world in that way 09:39:42 in some amazing ways. And we're going to talk 09:39:44 just a little bit about that stuff. 09:39:47 For the folks who have Android, I want to throw 09:39:49 out, as well, that there are a couple of just 09:39:51 Android landmarks, as well. 09:39:56 The Android Marketplace opened in 2008, October of 09:39:59 2008. And in 2012, they renamed it to the Google 09:40:04 Play Store. And the Google Play Store has 09:40:08 2.8 million apps available for folks. And so 09:40:11 obviously we've come a long way in a very short 09:40:14 amount of time. So in the span of -- well, I 09:40:18 think the iPhone was released in June of 2007. So 09:40:21 in a short span of 13 years, you can see where 09:40:25 we've come, which is incredibly short. I think 09:40:28 about that time period and it's so hard to imagine 09:40:32 that in just 13 years we've come so far. 09:40:37 But let's talk about devices. The impact of 09:40:41 mobile devices. Android, Windows Mobile and iOS, 09:40:45 they are perhaps the most advanced piece of 09:40:48 technology that I think we all probably take for 09:40:51 granted, to a certain extent, because we really 09:40:53 just don't realize how much is packet into those 09:40:56 small, portable devices that we have. 09:41:00 In fact, they're packed full of what I would refer 09:41:03 to almost as senses. So if you think about it, 09:41:06 you know, built into each smartphone, whether you 09:41:10 have an iPhone or an Android, you have lots of 09:41:12 different things. And so you have a GPS that nose 09:41:16 where you are. And it's got an accelerometer. So 09:41:18 with the GPS, it knows where you are, it knows 09:41:21 where you're moving. With the accelerometer, it 09:41:23 knows how fast you're moving from Point A to Point 09:41:27 B. It's got a gyroscope. So if it knows, if 09:41:31 you're holding ip outside right or upside down, it 09:41:33 will switch screen orientation based on that 09:41:36 gyroscope. It's got a compass built into it. 09:41:40 It's got a forward and backward high definition 09:41:41 camera. 09:41:44 I remember when I used to have to carry a big old 09:41:46 camera. Now, you don't have to buy a secondary 09:41:49 camera. The cameras that come within our 09:41:51 smartphones are so sophisticated and so high 09:41:55 definition that carrying an external camera isn't 09:41:57 always necessary anymore. 09:41:59 But, again, with those cameras, not only can you 09:42:02 see what's in front of you, but you can hold it up 09:42:05 and see the world around you, as well wthe 09:42:06 forward-facing camera. 09:42:09 It's got a phone capability. So it puts us in 09:42:12 touch with folks. It's connected to other WiFi 09:42:14 devices and ought a network. So we have 09:42:18 connection with folks and things all around us. 09:42:22 And then, really, I think probably the biggest 09:42:25 thing with this is they are some of the most 09:42:30 accessible devices ever made. Because 09:42:32 accessibility, from the very beginning, was in the 09:42:36 forefront as they designed and made the iPad or 09:42:39 the iPhone. It was thought of as they started 09:42:43 from the ground up. And I would say -- and I'm 09:42:47 honest with folks. If you would have talked to me 09:42:50 probably eight years ago, I would have said if 09:42:52 you're going to get a device and you have a 09:42:54 disability, get an iPad or an iPhone because they 09:42:57 are more accessible. They have more accessibility 09:43:00 features. It's a part of their ecosystem. 09:43:02 They're building it into their software, into 09:43:05 their operating systems, and it's just a more 09:43:06 accessible device. 09:43:09 These days I would argue that it's not so much 09:43:15 who's leading who these days. Within Android, 09:43:17 there are lots of different options. In fact, 09:43:20 many of the things that you see in Apple as far as 09:43:23 accessibility, you're going to find like-minded 09:43:28 tools or features in an Android device. And so 09:43:31 that disparity between the two has changed 09:43:34 drastically over the last several years. And I 09:43:37 would say they're much more comparable these days 09:43:38 when it comes to accessibility. 09:43:41 But there's something for everyone, whether you're 09:43:43 blind or visually impaired, whether you have an 09:43:46 intellectual or developmental disability, whether 09:43:49 you have a mobility impairment, difficulty using a 09:43:54 touchscreen or a mouse, accessibility was at the 09:43:56 forefront of everything that they did and 09:43:59 everything that they thought of. 09:44:05 Apps and so much more. So there's also so many 09:44:08 choices. That's one of the things I love about 09:44:10 the mobile environment. There's so many choices. 09:44:13 There's lots of different hardware options. 09:44:15 There's lots of different add-ons, ways to mount 09:44:18 it, make it easy to use, take it with you, it's 09:44:22 versatile. There's an acceptability factor now. 09:44:25 You know, when the iPad first came out, it was an 09:44:28 expensive bobble and you thought "oo, that person 09:44:30 must be really someone because they've got an 09:44:31 iPad." " . 09:44:34 Nowadays, not so much. They're very kind of, 09:44:37 again, supplanted into just our everyday lives 09:44:41 that there's an accessibility factor there. 09:44:43 I think, you know, they also come with a very 09:44:46 engaging and intuitive interface where you're 09:44:49 using a touchscreen. They're often a lot of times 09:44:52 more affordable than other types of technology. 09:44:54 And they're very, very mobile. They have a 09:44:58 smaller form factor. And for folks who need to be 09:45:00 mobile and need to be able to carry their 09:45:02 technology with them from place to place, it's 09:45:06 much easier to do with mobile devices. 09:45:08 And then when you think about being coupled with 09:45:14 apps, apps really shape the way we live, you know. 09:45:16 They give us immediate access to information and 09:45:20 tools we need. So essentially you can search for 09:45:24 anything at any time anywhere using your device, 09:45:28 whether that's information or maybe you need a 09:45:31 tool to be able to find out what's in your bank 09:45:33 account. There are apps for that. It gives us 09:45:35 immediate access to information and tools when we 09:45:37 need them. 09:45:39 It provides for instant communication and 09:45:43 connection. So it's easier to communicate with 09:45:47 folks now more than ever. So we've got instant 09:45:50 messaging, text messaging, social networking, 09:45:55 video chatting, all sorts of tools for us to be 09:45:58 able to be in communication with folks. 09:46:01 It also leads to increased productivity. You're 09:46:05 always plugged in. Although I would argue that 09:46:08 it's not so great for your social life because 09:46:10 you're always plugged in, you feel like people can 09:46:13 get ahold of you at any point. So sometimes 09:46:15 putting your device away could be the most 09:46:19 important thing you do in your day. But increased 09:46:22 productivity is a huge thing. It's always there 09:46:25 with you. It's in your pocket. It's notifying 09:46:27 you and letting you know that something's 09:46:29 happening or reminding you to do something that 09:46:32 you might have for gotten to do. 09:46:34 And then I think, you know, the other thing that 09:46:37 apps do in the way they shape our lives is they 09:46:41 simplify daily tasks. It allows us to buy movie 09:46:44 tickets, get groceries, refill prescriptions, 09:46:47 deposit checks, all sorts of things that we can do 09:46:51 through apps that we weren't able to do years ago. 09:46:54 And it's really a huge timesaver for a lot of 09:46:57 folks. 09:47:01 Although with apps, I think there comes a lot of 09:47:04 pros and cons, and so I just wanted to highlight a 09:47:06 few of those as we go through here. 09:47:10 Obviously, you know, apps are lower cost and more 09:47:12 affordable. Most apps actually cost somewhere 09:47:16 between $1 and $10. Many of them offer free 09:47:19 trials. And usually if you purchase a lower cost 09:47:23 app, there's probably in-app purchases that will 09:47:26 basically allow you to have more access to more 09:47:31 advanced features. So the threshold for getting 09:47:35 into apps and purchasing apps is very, very low. 09:47:38 And when you compare that to traditional assistive 09:47:42 technology, like screen readers, document scan and 09:47:45 read systems, those things can cost quite a bit of 09:47:50 money. And, you know, really, an app may not do 09:47:52 everything that a more traditional assistive 09:48:00 technology program may do, but it does quite a bit 09:48:03 and that's something to look at. As far as cost 09:48:05 when I look at what's up there on the screen, 09:48:07 Kurzweil 3,000. For an individual to I don't 09:48:11 Kurzweil 3,000, it's about $13 or $1400 depending 09:48:14 upon where you find yourselves. There are some 09:48:18 discounts for students in K-12 and higher Ed. But 09:48:21 traditionally it's about $1400. And Claire oh 09:48:26 PDF is an app that I think is probably as 09:48:29 Kurzweil-esque that you can get and may be 09:48:31 something to consider and look into. 09:48:34 And really, probably tindustry that received -- 09:48:36 has been probably been impacted the most by 09:48:40 tablets and apps is really augmentative 09:48:43 communication. As traditional devices cost quite 09:48:47 a bit of money. And then there are apps that do 09:48:49 similar things. Again, maybe not everything that 09:48:52 a traditional device does, but they do very 09:48:56 similar things. And it might be a solution for 09:48:57 somebody. 09:49:00 And if we have augmentative communications 09:49:03 specialists or folks who use speech generating 09:49:07 devices, I'm not arguing one way or the other, but 09:49:10 there are just options for folks to be able to 09:49:13 look at and to be aware of. 09:49:17 So, lower cost, more affordable entry for folks to 09:49:20 be able to get tools and devices that can help 09:49:24 improve their independence. 09:49:26 This one I love. I talk about this all the time. 09:49:30 Apps combine features that used to require 09:49:33 multiple devices. I always use the term carrying 09:49:37 around Batman's tool belt. Usually, so there's an 09:49:40 app out there. It's called seeing AI. It's an 09:49:43 app that's free from Microsoft. I think we're 09:49:45 going to take a look at it later today. But what 09:49:48 I love about it is it allows you to combine what 09:49:51 used to take three or four devices and combines it 09:49:55 all into one, making it less cumbersome, simpler 09:49:58 and more efficient to use. And, again, you don't 09:50:00 have to carry multiple devices around with you. 09:50:03 So within Seeing AI, you have a color identifier, 09:50:06 you have a money identifier, you have a bar code 09:50:09 scanner, and you can take a picture of text and 09:50:11 have it read to you, whereas before you'd have to 09:50:14 have four-step rat devices to do all those things 09:50:16 for you. 09:50:21 Another thing that I -- pros and cons with apps. 09:50:23 New apps that come out all the time. If you need 09:50:25 something, there's typically an app for that. But 09:50:28 sometimes the choices, sometimes there's just too 09:50:30 many. It's hard to sort through what's what. 09:50:32 There's thousands and thousands of apps. Or we 09:50:34 even talked about earlier millions of apps trying 09:50:37 to figure out which one is the one that you're 09:50:40 looking for. And so you can look at that as a 09:50:42 pro, that there's lots of different options. Or 09:50:45 you can lock at it as a con. It's hard to sort 09:50:47 through. 09:50:50 Sometimes there's also limited customer support. 09:50:53 You kind of get what you pay for. And it's just 09:50:56 easy to download another app if the app that you 09:50:58 thought doesn't really meet your need. 09:51:01 In-app purchases, we talked about that a second 09:51:05 ago, you know. An app's oftentimes free but you 09:51:07 have to pay for more advanced features. That can 09:51:09 sometimes be a bummer. 09:51:12 And then compatibility issues are also probably 09:51:16 one of those bigger things that we run into as 09:51:20 devices get upgrades or whatnot. Sometimes the 09:51:22 software that you use don't work with the newer 09:51:26 operating systems. And so there's oftentimes some 09:51:28 compatibility issues. Or, you know, these are 09:51:32 smaller developers. These are not large companies 09:51:34 all the time making the apps. And sometimes they 09:51:37 come and they go. They may have an app today and 09:51:40 it may be gone tomorrow. So keeping an eye on 09:51:42 those types of things. 09:51:47 I want to talk just a second about app resources 09:51:50 and we'll wrap this up and move on to our next 09:51:52 list for apps for communication. But, you know, 09:51:55 app resources. You know, as apps change from 09:51:57 moment to moment, we talked about good ones coming 09:52:01 out all the time, you know, I may have an app that 09:52:04 works great for me but it might not work for the 09:52:07 person next to me. And sometimes finding AT and 09:52:10 disability-related apps can be hard to find. And 09:52:12 so I just wanted to point you to some resources 09:52:17 for folks to be able to find apps that work for 09:52:20 you. I'm going to leave it. Bridging apps is 09:52:24 great. A.m.cy here from Bridging Apps. She's 09:52:26 going to be talking to us later today. They are a 09:52:29 great resource. 09:52:33 Apple Vis is another great resource to look into. 09:52:37 They are all about blind and visually impaired and 09:52:40 working with Apple devices ANNA Droid devices. 09:52:44 And then Tools for Life, which is the Georgia 09:52:46 Assistive Technology Act program, they have a 09:52:49 pretty good tool, as well, for sorting through 09:52:52 apps. And so just a couple of different resources 09:52:55 for you to kind of jot down and be aware of as you 09:53:06 kind of look apps for your needs and the people 09:53:07 you are working for. 09:53:10 So I wanted to look at the Q & A to see if there 09:53:14 are any questions I might have missed. 09:53:23 Someone 09:53:27 had written in there another aspect for costs. 09:53:29 One app license must be purchased for all devices 09:53:32 using one paid app for all devices is illegal. 09:53:36 And so when you're thinking about as an 09:53:40 organization, you just can't -- if you want to put 09:53:45 an augmentative communication device, you have to 09:53:48 buy 10 different licenses for that. So it can get 09:53:49 expensive. 09:53:55 Someone asked can you please explain what 09:53:58 aug comm devices are and what they are used for. 09:54:02 I will save the question for the next. And let 09:54:05 them handle that. They can give you a good 09:54:06 explanation for that. 09:54:09 So, without further ado, I'm going to stop my 09:54:13 share. And I'm going to invite Craig and Josh to 09:54:15 pop on. And whoever is first. I think, Josh, you 09:54:18 were going to go first; is that right? 09:54:23 >>CRAIG BURNS: : No. I think I was going to go 09:54:25 first, Brian. 09:54:26 >> BRIAN NORTON: Sure. I'll let you share your 09:54:51 screen. 09:54:54 Can you see just the power point slide? 09:54:57 >>>> BRIAN NORTON: I see you need to swap 09:54:59 displays. 09:55:01 >>CRAIG BURNS: : There. Is that good? 09:55:02 >> BRIAN NORTON: Yep. 09:55:05 >>CRAIG BURNS: : All right. So, we are going to 09:55:08 talk about apps for AAC, which is alternative and 09:55:12 augmentative communication. And that was a great 09:55:18 question that we had earlier Just at the end of 09:55:20 Brian's thing. And we'll get that answered in 09:55:21 this segment. 09:55:25 So, just a little bit of my background, I'm a 09:55:28 monlt and cognitive team lead here at -- 09:55:32 mobility -- Easterseals Crossroads with the 09:55:35 assistive technology team. I don't have any 09:55:38 financial relationships with any of the apps or 09:55:40 anything other than I'm an employee of Easterseals 09:55:41 Crossroads. 09:55:45 Today we're going to try to get a couple, about 09:55:48 three things that we make sure that we cover. 09:55:51 Understanding the difference between dedicated 09:55:54 AAC devices, which are the devices that are 09:55:58 manufactured by a company and they are usually or 09:56:03 often proprietary devices. They're designed 09:56:07 specifically for augmentative communication. 09:56:10 And although that's been kind of changing and 09:56:12 we'll talk about a little bit about that. 09:56:14 Understand the different types of communication 09:56:19 strategies. There are strategies that involve the 09:56:22 use of symbols or graphics. There's strategies 09:56:26 that involve just text or orthographic. 09:56:29 There's a natural language foundation. And then 09:56:34 there's symbol compassion. Natural language 09:56:37 formation is how we typically speak. Whereas 09:56:39 symbol compassion is a combination of symbols that 09:56:43 creates a message. And those symbols could have 09:56:45 multiple meanings based on the direction you're 09:56:48 going with your scament. 09:56:52 And then understanding the thoughts behind 09:56:57 vocabulary pages and how the users use the page. 09:56:59 So communication. There's all types of 09:57:04 communication that we use. Most individuals on a 09:57:07 daily basis. We use our speech we're talking with 09:57:12 each other in person. Or on the phone. We use 09:57:17 email. We use texting or short messaging 09:57:20 services. We use letters. In the old school, we 09:57:22 used to write letters and send them. And three 09:57:24 days letter, somebody else would get that letter 09:57:27 and then they'd respond. And then we have phone 09:57:29 calls with mobile devices we get phone calls. 09:57:31 Almost anywhere you are. 09:57:35 And then you have service. 09:57:38 In the past, most augmentative communication 09:57:42 devices and most of AAC was available through 09:57:45 dedicated devices. 09:57:48 And so they only handled face-to-face 09:57:54 communication. And the purchase of those devices 09:57:58 was often through a Medicaid or Medicare or a 09:58:01 private insurance company. Medicaid requirement 09:58:08 at the time was that it just did speech output for 09:58:10 in person, face-to-face communication. 09:58:14 Well, only recently, and recently, I say in the 09:58:18 past five or six years, they've begun to 09:58:21 understand that there are all these other modes of 09:58:24 communication. And we don't want to limit or 09:58:28 restrict people in their communication to just 09:58:29 speech. 09:58:33 However, today, we're just going to talk about 09:58:36 speech output. 09:58:41 So there are all sorts of AAC apps. And if you 09:58:44 look for AAC apps, you'll see thousands. And they 09:58:48 do different things. Some of them with the same 09:58:52 goal of getting communication out. 09:59:01 There are apps that are from the manufacturers of 09:59:04 the devices, because a long time ago when the iPad 09:59:07 and the iPhone came out, there was beginning to be 09:59:14 an impact on those dedicated devices. And 09:59:19 immediately the first app was one called Pro pro 09:59:22 to go. It was available for the iPhone. Well, 09:59:24 most of the manufacturers -- and a little 09:59:27 background of my information is I was -- I started 09:59:32 with a manufacturer in 996 with augmentative 09:59:36 communication, an AAC manufacturer. 09:59:39 And so when they started getting this impact of 09:59:43 the iPhone, then they were like okay, is this 09:59:45 going to be different? Is this going to damage 09:59:50 our business or affect our business in any way? 09:59:53 And it didn't so much. It was a slow takeoff. 09:59:58 But when the iPad came out, that had a huge impact 10:00:02 on the manufactures of dedicated devices. 10:00:05 Some of the current software that is available as 10:00:10 an app on most mobile devices. Some things may 10:00:13 not be available on Android, but I think most of 10:00:15 these are. 10:00:22 Snap core first is by TobiiDnyaVox, which 10:00:24 manufactures eye devices and dedicated devices. 10:00:29 TouchChat is one that was produced by Saltillo. 10:00:31 It was a separate company and now they are under 10:00:38 the PRC umbrella. 10:00:41 The grid 3 is another one that was designed for 10:00:45 all these dedicated devices. But it's a separate 10:00:48 company. And now they have -- they're from a 10:00:53 company called Smartbox. And Smartbox was 10:01:00 purchased by TobiiDynaVox, but in the UK, they 10:01:04 said it was too close, it's a monopoly, we need to 10:01:07 break it up, you can't do that. So it's still 10:01:09 questionable where Smartbox is but they still 10:01:11 produce the Grid 3. 10:01:19 LAMP Words for Life by Prentke Romich, or PRC. It 10:01:23 is used by devices but also iPads and other 10:01:27 devices and nats' geared more towards individuals 10:01:34 on the autism spectrum. It's a very not 10:01:39 restricted but very formatted application. It's 10:01:44 based on motor planning. So people learn how to 10:01:49 do the work, how to pick the words and they 10:01:53 memorize those positions over time. 10:01:58 Communicator was produced by Tobii, before it was 10:02:02 purchased by TobiiDynaVox. But it's still 10:02:06 available. 10:02:09 Allcomm devices by more independent developers. 10:02:11 Brian mentioned independent developers earlier as 10:02:16 a small part. I had done some developing on iOS. 10:02:20 And the challenge with iOS is, for example, is you 10:02:23 need to stay with it and you need to constantly 10:02:26 change. Because iOS updates all the time. So 10:02:31 when they went to facial recognition, you had to 10:02:34 include that in your app, that ability, whether 10:02:37 you needed it or not. So those kinds of things 10:02:39 are constantly changing in the apps. 10:02:43 And so you'll see some apps either disappear or 10:02:46 not be ready for the next update. So it takes 10:02:49 them a while to catch up. 10:02:52 Some of the examples of an independent developer 10:02:56 apps are verbally, or verbally premium, which is 10:02:57 the plus. 10:03:03 An Lexicom AAC, which is if you look at the top 10:03:06 highest one on my screen is verbally. The next 10:03:10 one to the right going counter -- going clockwise 10:03:14 is Alexicom AAC. 10:03:16 C. 10:03:20 The next one going down around the clock is speech 10:03:27 assistant AAC. And then proloquo to go is the one 10:03:29 with the picture symbols. 10:03:35 When individuals look at AugComm, there is 10:03:39 different strategies. Some are symbol-based and 10:03:44 some are text-based. So symbol-based applications 10:03:51 like proloquo 2 go and Alexicom, as you see, can 10:03:57 be used better by people that are not literalf 10:03:59 literal -- 10:04:03 literate. They can't read anything. The symbols 10:04:07 help identify the word that they need. So some 10:04:10 systems build into that message window. 10:04:18 If you look at the one that says -- the you see 10:04:22 the screen says, "I know" in the symbols and the 10:04:25 words, those symbols can go up into that message 10:04:27 window at the same time that the word is. Or you 10:04:28 can turn those symbols off. 10:04:32 So a lot of symbol systems will allow you the 10:04:36 ability to turn off the symbols if you don't need 10:04:44 them because you might want that application or 10:04:46 that app. 10:04:50 And so some individuals find those apps with 10:04:53 pictures better. I find nmy experience, that most 10:04:57 adults that need communication because of some 10:05:02 acquired illness, like ALS or MS, they typically 10:05:06 just want to get the message out. So they will 10:05:13 usually land on an app that has no pictures. 10:05:19 Some other independent developers' apps are Cough 10:05:24 Drop and Avaz AAC. You'll see used in the top 10:05:31 picture is cough Drop and the other one is Avaz. 10:05:34 They use different symbol sets. And there's 10:05:41 several symbol sets out there. 10:05:45 New 2 you is a figure set that's more stick 10:05:49 figurery type of things. And then some of the 10:05:52 other devices I don't the same symbol set that are 10:05:56 sort of like the peck system as you're used to as 10:05:58 a speech pathologist or a school teacher, that 10:06:01 sort of system with where you have pictures you 10:06:03 can actually put on pieces in the classroom, for 10:06:06 example, or areas of the classroom so students can 10:06:09 understand what that is and they can pick that and 10:06:12 say I need to get a drink of water. So they get a 10:06:15 picture of a drink of water and that sort of 10:06:17 thing. 10:06:22 And then there's a couple more what I call 10:06:25 targeted AAC apps. As I say, there are hundreds 10:06:28 and hundreds of apps in the app store. So if you 10:06:34 were to say "I need an app for my iPhone or for my 10:06:38 child or foreother, parent, you could be really 10:06:42 confused as far as what they do. 10:06:47 Here are a couple of samples. The one on the far 10:06:52 right of your screen is called Gabby. It used to 10:06:57 be called Gabby Lite. Now they just call it come 10:07:00 gabby. It's a very simple one. It has pictures. 10:07:04 You're just touching a button. Those pictures 10:07:10 there. We call buttons. Underlying there's 10:07:12 different squares that are usable for that icon. 10:07:14 So they will produce some sort of message. And 10:07:17 we'll get a chance to see this when I switch to my 10:07:20 iPad and show you some things. 10:07:23 The one that's next to it with the keyboard, 10:07:26 that's called assistive express. And that's a 10:07:32 nice one for individuals that need to just put out 10:07:35 a message. And a lot of individuals actually like 10:07:38 typing. Like I said it's most adults just want to 10:07:44 get to the message as quick as possible. 10:07:47 The words in the yellow on that screen are what we 10:07:52 call predicted words. It's a process called word 10:07:55 prediction. As you start to type a word, those 10:08:01 words will change so that when -- it just helps 10:08:04 reduce the typing that you need to do. So instead 10:08:10 of typing, here we have the word grande if you're 10:08:16 ordering a Latte ar something from Starbucks, you 10:08:19 don't need to type the whole word grande, you can 10:08:23 type GR and here comes the word grande. And then 10:08:25 you can select it without having to finish typing. 10:08:31 The other thing that some systems do will go even 10:08:33 further in that those words that come up are 10:08:36 context-related. 10:08:40 So if you are saying of making a sentence that 10:08:45 says, "I want to go to the store.", you aren't -- 10:08:49 it's not going to bring up when you say "I want 10:08:52 to" and you type a G, it's not going to bring up 10:08:54 going because that wouldn't make sense 10:08:57 grammatically. So it eliminates those kinds of 10:09:01 extra picks that wouldn't make sense in the 10:09:03 sentence. So it's useful that way. Some other 10:09:07 systems will go ahead and give you a whole phrase. 10:09:12 So if you had typed into your device or your app 10:09:15 sometime that I want an ice cream cone, the next 10:09:18 time you start to type" I want" it may even show 10:09:21 you the whole sentence. "I want an ice cream 10:09:24 cone" so you can pick that again and then use 10:09:25 that. 10:09:28 So there's a lot of different features in these 10:09:32 apps. 10:09:35 When I say you might -- you get confused if you 10:09:39 lock at all of them, some people say, you know, 10:09:46 you can just go the app store and get an AAC app. 10:09:50 There are oftentimes when you might want to get a 10:09:53 speech pathologist involved. When you buy a 10:09:55 dedicated device or if you're going after a 10:09:58 dedicated device, there's a process, especially if 10:10:00 you're covered by Medicaid where you need to go 10:10:03 through the process of getting a doctor's 10:10:07 prescription so that you can go get an evaluation 10:10:10 by an SLP that's making a recommendation for a 10:10:17 device. Try some things with you. And they will 10:10:20 put together a report. They'll collect all the 10:10:22 insurance information, all the doctors' 10:10:24 information and all that kind of stuff and send it 10:10:27 in to a manufacturer. And then the manufacturer 10:10:30 reviews it, sends it in to Medicaid and Medicaid 10:10:32 approves that device. 10:10:36 Now, that's because those devices are anywhere, 10:10:40 like Brian had 4 to $5,000 in there, but they can 10:10:45 go up higher with eye gaze systems going up to 16, 10:10:47 $17,000. 10:10:51 So a lot of times that's why you need that 10:10:54 assistance with purchasing. Medicare is similar, 10:10:56 although the process is a little quicker. You do 10:10:59 the same report. Once the manufacturer gets the 10:11:02 report and reviews it, they send you the device 10:11:04 when you send in your 20 percent. 10:11:06 And then insurance companies are all different. 10:11:09 So they may cover 100 percent. They may cover 10:11:12 part of it. And some people have a combination of 10:11:12 that. 10:11:15 And so, I tell you all that because going to an 10:11:18 app on the app store is you just foe out and buy 10:11:21 the app. But, still, you may, working with a 10:11:25 person that has a speech pathologist, I would 10:11:28 recommend that you talk to that speech pathologist 10:11:32 and say okay, we want to get started with 10:11:35 augmentative communication, where can we start to 10:11:37 get us some experience? That may be the way to 10:11:43 go. So, yeah, I would say, yeah, you need a 10:11:48 support of an SLP a lot of times. 10:11:52 We talked a little bit about the cost of devices. 10:11:55 Well, apps have a different cost, too. 10:12:04 One of the apps prolo2 go I think is $250. Lamp 10:12:08 for life I think is close to $300, maybe $400. 10:12:13 Speak Pros which I hopefully will show you a 10:12:18 little bit of is a $39 per month app subscription. 10:12:23 And then speech assistant which I think is a 10:12:33 really need app is only $15 or $14.99. So the app 10:12:37 isn't relative to how good the app is. The price 10:12:40 is typically how much encompassing the app is. 10:12:44 Gabby app that you see here is very focused. Just 10:12:48 some specific areas. 10:12:52 The other thing that you have with the 10:12:58 manufacturers and their apps, like Core First from 10:13:03 TobiiDynaVox, for example, those are apps that are 10:13:07 designed to handle any speech issue from the age 10:13:13 of two up to however old you are and you need some 10:13:19 communication. So they're much more full, a full 10:13:23 range of vocabulary. And the vocabulary 10:13:26 strategies change. So if you're a young child and 10:13:29 you can only use four buttons, then you'd have 10:13:32 four buttons per page as opposed to an adult that 10:13:40 may want 80 buttons per page and you can see the 10:13:43 targets. We're also concerned with the physical 10:13:45 use of the devices, can the person using the 10:13:48 devices, whether it's a dedicated device or an 10:13:52 iPad/iPhone, can they see and touch those specific 10:13:55 buttons? 10:14:01 There are also all kinds of ways to 10:14:04 access that. So you may not be able to touch the 10:14:08 screen, but you can use things like eye tracking. 10:14:10 You can use switches and scanning. We aren't 10:14:14 really going to get into switches and scanning 10:14:17 today. But those are options that you have for 10:14:23 accessing the device and the vocabulary on the 10:14:24 device. 10:14:30 So we talked a little bit about strategies where 10:14:35 some people say messaging systems require reading 10:14:39 skills. Well, they don't. With pictures, you can 10:14:41 generally find a picture that you think represents 10:14:44 the word you want and use that. 10:14:48 One of the common misconceptions, and it's been 10:14:54 from the very start of augComm, is if I get this 10:14:58 AugComm device they will stop talking. They are 10:15:02 already talking some but not legibly, you can't 10:15:03 understand them. 10:15:07 So, that's been proven kind of false. So there's 10:15:10 been study after study that says individuals that 10:15:17 have trouble speaking but use an AugComm device 10:15:21 will actually perform better in their vocabulary. 10:15:25 They will learn words faster and they will -- and 10:15:28 a lot of times they mimic that system, how it says 10:15:31 that. And so they'll use that, as well. 10:15:35 To review some of the systems, and, again, I'm 10:15:36 going to switch over here in a minute to the 10:15:39 actual iPad so I can show you a couple of these, 10:15:43 some are text-based only. We talked about like 10:15:48 verbally. Well, there's proloquo 2 go and there's 10:15:53 pictures and symbols. And there's prolo. 10:15:55 For text. Assistive express which is on the 10:15:59 screen right now is the bigger picture is text 10:16:04 only. Verbally plus is text only. Touch chat 10:16:07 which you saw a picture earlier and we'll go 10:16:12 quickly through is not text only. That's a 10:16:14 picture and text. So there's all sorts of 10:16:19 different approaches that we use. 10:16:24 I think I'm going to try to get to my other screen 10:16:27 here. 10:16:31 Stop sharing here. 10:16:34 I'm going to share my iPad. 10:16:49 >> BRIAN NORTON: While you do that, Craig, as you 10:16:51 guys ask questions, I'm keeping an eye on the Q & 10:16:54 A and I'll try to answer those as quickly as I 10:16:57 can. You know, we'll just keep -- if you have 10:16:59 questions, just point them there. And if I have 10:17:03 to jump in and ask Craig something, I'll do that. 10:17:09 >>CRAIG BURNS: : I'm going to try. It's only 10:17:12 giving me not my other device here. 10:17:21 So I have to figure out why. 10:17:27 >> BRIAN NORTON: These are things that we take 10:17:29 grace on because of the technical challenges of 10:17:31 making all this stuff work. 10:17:34 >>CRAIG BURNS: : There we go. Okay. 10:17:36 >> BRIAN NORTON: Perfect. 10:17:39 >>CRAIG BURNS: : So now you're seeing it. All 10:17:41 right. So you can still hear me, correct? 10:17:43 >> BRIAN NORTON: Yep. 10:17:46 >>CRAIG BURNS: : Okay. So, some of the apps 10:17:50 psyche I have selected a few that I use when I'm 10:17:56 working with individuals. Some of them require an 10:17:59 account, like grid. And you have to pay for this 10:18:02 before you get that account. So we aren't going 10:18:05 to show that, unfortunately. 10:18:09 The other cough drop requires an account also. 10:18:12 Verbally doesn't as long as you get that. And 10:18:15 verbally, I'm going to go into that, actually I 10:18:18 will go into touch chat first. I'm looking at my 10:18:21 screen and I'm touching something else. 10:18:28 All right. So here is a very simple vocabulary 10:18:34 page. And so if I want to use this to say "I want 10:18:43 more drink" oh, it says it's not available for 10:18:45 speech on that device. So that would normally 10:18:49 talk. You'll get to hear voices here in a second. 10:18:53 But, again, that's a simple one. It's 12 boxes or 10:18:59 a grid of 12 vocabulary items. 10:19:02 And the reason this would be used with this number 10:19:09 of boxes is because the individual has that he can 10:19:12 only handle so much that's going on on the screen, 10:19:16 so they want nothing to distract them. 10:19:20 Or they may have an access issue. So we may not 10:19:24 be able to touch small buttons. And these may be 10:19:28 a nice size for an individual to touch. 10:19:33 So, a nice little app that can let us do things. 10:19:40 We can ask questions. We can do some chatting. 10:19:43 You lock nice, what are you doing? Those kind of 10:19:47 things. You'll have different things, you'll have 10:19:50 a picture or short phrase. That's just to give 10:19:56 the person an idea of that button says. 10:20:02 The have to show, it might be "I have something to 10:20:03 show you". 10:20:05 They all have a clearing place where you can clear 10:20:09 out what the message is at the top of the device. 10:20:14 Here is verbally. This is an app that a lot of 10:20:17 adults use. It has a core vocabulary section. 10:20:23 And a lot of apps have a core vocabulary portion. 10:20:30 Speech pathologists really like it. I find adults 10:20:32 it takes a long time for them to learn. And some 10:20:37 kids, too, of where those words are that we might 10:20:47 use often. I can make a sentence by using "I like 10:20:54 some -- let's see if I can find something here. I 10:20:59 might have to use spelling. I like some ice 10:21:02 cream. 10:21:05 >> Voice: I like some ice vem. 10:21:08 >>CRAIG BURNS: : So all apps have a voice choice 10:21:14 so you can choose a female, a male, an adult, a or 10:21:19 then more of a childish or child voice. 10:21:22 So it friends on what you're using and who's using 10:21:25 it. Verbally is a nice one. I like it 10:21:28 particularly because you can have phrases stored. 10:21:32 So for adults, let's say I need to call up my 10:21:36 pharmacy and say I need a new prescription or a 10:21:39 need a refill, you can put on these where it says 10:21:44 hello how are you? Nice to see you. What was 10:21:49 your day? Can have phrases like my name is Craig. 10:21:53 My date of birth is this date of birth. My last 10:21:55 four of my Social Security are 9999. 10:22:00 And then I can say. I need a refill of. And then 10:22:03 the other openings can be what medications you 10:22:06 have that you need refills of. So you might 10:22:08 communicate with your pharmacist that I'm going to 10:22:11 be using a speech device and occasionally I'll 10:22:14 need to call you and you will hear me use this 10:22:15 device. 10:22:17 So it's kind of neat. 10:22:23 In here also the is your word prediction. As you 10:22:26 start to type, you'll see the four buttons on the 10:22:30 right middle area will change based on what you 10:22:34 are typing. And when you get to the word that you 10:22:42 want, you can choose that. And then you can speak 10:22:44 the message. 10:22:45 >> Voice: Today's Friday. 10:22:48 >>CRAIG BURNS: : So a nice, pretty concise app 10:22:52 with some phrases that you can store. It also has 10:22:56 a history that's in there with when you purchase 10:23:00 the $99 version. And, again, here's a lower -- 10:23:08 it's not cheap. $ Sh but it's a 99 is not cheap 10:23:10 one-time payment. So you get this feature that 10:23:12 you see here, plus. 10:23:15 Now, see, one of the buttons that you see in the 10:23:19 bottom row is speak each word. So, some 10:23:23 individuals will turn that on so that as you are 10:23:27 speaking or creating a message, it speaks the 10:23:30 words as you finish the word. And you might use 10:23:33 that for a couple of reasons. One, it helps you 10:23:37 know what you're typing. And then it also helps 10:23:40 the person you're talking with or communicating 10:23:43 with to know that you're doing something. You're 10:23:46 not just playing a game on your thing. Because 10:23:50 typically the person is sitting across from you or 10:23:52 looking at the back of your device. And so you 10:23:55 want them to know: I'm answering your question. 10:23:58 I'm not just playing a game or something. But it 10:24:00 takes me some time sometimes to type that in or to 10:24:03 get the words to build that message. 10:24:09 So, again, this is a nice little app. You can 10:24:11 repeat something you said just by touching the 10:24:13 repeat. 10:24:15 >> Voice: Today is Friday. 10:24:16 >>CRAIG BURNS: : You can, if you type in 10:24:19 something, you say wow, that's really neat. I'm 10:24:22 going to use it again. You can save it by 10:24:24 touching the plus key. In this version that's 10:24:31 grayed out because I didn't pay for this one. So 10:24:32 that's how that works. 10:24:35 And then if you have a keyboard attached to your 10:24:37 device, you can just type the keyboard. You don't 10:24:42 have to use the on-screen keyboard. 10:24:47 >> NIKOL PRIETO: Go ahead, Brian. Brian someone 10:24:49 was wanting to know before verbally, can you tell 10:24:52 us what app you were in before verbally? 10:24:54 >>CRAIG BURNS: : That was touch chat. 10:24:56 >> BRIAN NORTON: Touch chat. It was the one with 10:24:59 a few picture boxes; is that right? 10:25:01 >>CRAIG BURNS: : Yes. And touch chat, again, 10:25:04 it's one of those more all encompassing things 10:25:07 that you would find on a dedicated device because 10:25:12 those dedicated devices and these kind of apps are 10:25:15 saying: You're not limited by your age group or 10:25:19 your language level. You get this a.m., and we 10:25:22 can find your language level and start from there. 10:25:26 So you can start with -- and it's not uncommon for 10:25:28 people to start with 12 buttons on a page and then 10:25:35 work their way up to 24, 36, whatever., to provide 10:25:38 more vocabulary. That's the nice things about 10:25:43 those kinds of apps. If you aren't able to read, 10:25:46 we have a lot of users, or I have had a lot of 10:25:48 users historically that couldn't read. So they 10:25:52 used picture symbols. But over time, they either 10:25:55 learned some of the words or more words and then 10:25:58 they needed more. So they would get more buttons 10:26:01 on a page, which means smaller target. So you 10:26:03 just have to make sure that they can hit those 10:26:06 targets. 10:26:11 Let's look at AlexiCom. And here's one. Now, 10:26:14 you'll see the pictures are a little different. 10:26:16 Some of them are actual pictures. And some of 10:26:21 them are symbols. So that's a common thing, too. 10:26:27 With some individuals don't recognize the 10:26:33 conceptual pictures of some of the symbols. Like 10:26:38 want is a very difficult thing to show in a 10:26:41 graphic and a symbol. So some people will use 10:26:44 actual pictures, especially when it comes to 10:26:48 family members. Or people that you know. People 10:26:53 at a work site that you can take pictures of and 10:26:55 put on the system. 10:26:58 And, again, a lot of these systems will let you 10:27:03 edit these buttons. I'm not real familiar with 10:27:09 this. We can go for it. I'm going to edit. I 10:27:11 want to see someone. So you can see that there 10:27:14 are different parts of the button. There's a 10:27:18 picture. There's a saved image. There's a label, 10:27:23 which is the top, at the top of the button. In 10:27:26 this case it's what's spoken I think is an AT 10:27:30 T language. And you can put Lynn incomes there 10:27:34 and you could have it have links go somewhere else 10:27:35 for a different page. 10:27:40 So, systems are generally very similar as to what 10:27:42 you can put in a button. But the way they talk 10:27:46 about it is slightly different. 10:27:49 so let's go to, 10:27:53 then, assistive express. 10:27:58 So if I want to type here I'm connected to a 10:28:01 keyboard so my typing keyboard -- my on-screen 10:28:05 keyboard doesn't show up. So I'm going to say 10:28:06 today. 10:28:08 >> Voice: Today. 10:28:10 >>CRAIG BURNS: : Is. 10:28:14 >> Voice: Is. Friday. 10:28:26 Dot. Have. 10:28:28 A 10:28:30 . Nice 10:28:32 . Weekend. 10:28:39 Then I can make it talk by having a button. 10:28:42 >> Voice: Today is Friday. Have a nice weekend. 10:28:43 >>CRAIG BURNS: : If you see a star, you can add 10:28:46 it to your favorites if you like it Tbox with the 10:28:49 arrow going up and out of it, I can send that as 10:28:53 an email or a text message to someone. 10:28:57 And then I can clear that. 10:29:04 I can do recents. So on this app, these are the 10:29:07 only two things I have up in there. But you can 10:29:09 have up to 40 things that are recent. And then 10:29:10 you can have your favorites. 10:29:14 So any time you type something in, you can do the 10:29:16 plus star and it will add it to this list of 10:29:18 favorites. So it will save you time if you know 10:29:22 that it's there that you can use it again later. 10:29:27 So that's a real simple app that I've used several 10:29:28 times. 10:29:33 Speech assistant, I like this one, it's only $15, 10:29:35 like I said -- 10:29:38 >> Voice: My name is Craig. 10:29:40 >>CRAIG BURNS: : You can just put things in 10:29:43 there. If you do things like I want to add some 10:29:46 pictures to that. Here's one. I'm going to clear 10:29:47 that message out. 10:29:49 >> Voice: This is not my car. 10:29:51 >>CRAIG BURNS: : You see a little bit about the 10:29:54 fancy sports car there. I wanted to make sure 10:29:56 that everybody knew that that wasn't mine. 10:29:59 This is a really easy way to edit. So I can touch 10:30:02 the button "the kitchen" and just hold it on a 10:30:05 little bit and it brings up my phrase edit button. 10:30:09 So maybe I want to edit and add a picture to that. 10:30:12 Select a picture from all photos and say, okay, 10:30:21 this is my kitchen. And I can say use. And save. 10:30:27 And now my kitchen has a picture of my kitchen. 10:30:30 So an individually could more readily recognize 10:30:32 their stuff if they're not quite reading 10:30:33 everything. 10:30:36 And you have different areas. You can go into 10:30:39 feelings. 10:30:45 >> Voice: I'm fine. I feel better. I'm final. 10:30:47 I feel better. 10:30:50 >>CRAIG BURNS: : So a nice app. I've used that a 10:30:53 couple times with individuals where they can read. 10:30:56 But in some areas we need to put pictures on 10:30:58 there. 10:31:04 And then I did want to show you speak pros, which 10:31:12 is the $who a month app. It does have which again 10:31:16 is $39.99 a month. It's not a one-time fee so 10:31:19 you're paying a lot over the lifetime of that. 10:31:22 This is interesting because it also has gesture 10:31:26 symbols. So you can see the word yes has an up 10:31:29 arrow. The word hello has a right arrow. So if I 10:31:36 swipe to the right. Let me go with gestures. 10:31:38 >> Voice: Hello. 10:31:39 >>CRAIG BURNS: : If I swipe up. 10:31:42 >> Voice: Yes. Craig crying if I swipe with two 10:31:44 fingers. 10:31:45 >> Voice: I feel. 10:31:49 >>CRAIG BURNS: : So that's a different way that 10:31:53 any other manufacturers had for creating a message 10:31:56 from your vocabulary, from your page. 10:31:58 So it's kind of cool. 10:32:02 Again, the drawback, to me, is that it's $40 a 10:32:05 month. And that's a lot of pay for that. But if 10:32:07 it works and you can do that sort of thing, that's 10:32:10 fantastic. 10:32:17 So I want to give Josh some time. So I'm going to 10:32:20 stop mirroring this. 10:32:25 And go back and I can stop share. 10:32:30 So, Brian, are you or Josh, are you there? 10:32:41 >> NIKOL PRIETO: Hey, Craig, he might be gone? 10:32:43 >> BRIAN NORTON: Josh, your microphone is muted 10:32:43 here. 10:32:45 >>CRAIG BURNS: : I'm back. 10:32:46 >> NIKOL PRIETO: What was the name of the last 10:32:47 app? 10:32:51 >>CRAIG BURNS: : That was called speak pros. 10:32:56 Which is one word. Speakprose. 10:32:58 And that's fairly new. 10:33:00 That's a fairly new app. 10:33:02 >> NIKOL PRIETO: Thank you. 10:33:04 >>CRAIG BURNS: : You're welcome. 10:33:06 >> JOSH ANDERSON: All right. Can everybody hear 10:33:08 me okay? All right, good deal. We've got a 10:33:11 little bit of time left here. So I'm going to 10:33:13 talk about some different apps for communication 10:33:16 that aren't necessarily AAC related although there 10:33:19 is a little bit kind of in here. My name is Josh 10:33:22 Anderson, I manage our clinical assistive 10:33:25 technology services here. I have no relevant 10:33:27 financial relationships to any of the apps talked 10:33:28 about. 10:33:31 Learning objectives, I am going to at least be 10:33:34 able to name three apps that can assist 10:33:36 individuals with communication and three 10:33:38 disabilities that may be able to be aided by 10:33:40 communication apps. 10:33:42 So Craig kind of touched on this a little bit but 10:33:45 some important things to remember. Communication 10:33:48 really isn't a static event. It requires someone 10:33:50 to accepted information, someone to receive 10:33:53 information and then an understanding of the 10:33:55 information relayed. Some of the barriers to 10:33:57 effective communication can include hearing 10:33:59 impairments, print disabilities, language 10:34:02 barriers, cognitive impairments, pretty much 10:34:05 anyone between the age of 1 and 19 years old. I 10:34:08 have kids that fall into that category and there's 10:34:10 definitely language and communication barriers. 10:34:13 And then some other things that of course can go 10:34:15 into there. 10:34:19 So I'm going to start off with just some simple 10:34:21 communication apps. These are actually made by 10:34:24 Sorenson. There's Sorenson buzz cards. And this 10:34:27 works like a deck of flash cards. And these are 10:34:30 really useful for folks who maybe use American 10:34:33 Sign Language as their main form of communication, 10:34:36 but that doesn't mean whenever they're out in 10:34:39 public that other folks are going to know ASL. 10:34:41 Another one is buzz stickers. And buzz stickers 10:34:44 is if you think of the emojis and things like that 10:34:48 in your text messaging, these are animated images 10:34:51 of hands doing ASL. 10:34:53 I'm not going to show you that one just because I 10:34:56 don't really want to open up text messaging. But 10:34:59 let me see if I can get this app to show up here. 10:35:02 Here we go. This is buzz cards. It's a very 10:35:05 simple app. It's free. And what it can do is you 10:35:07 can sit here and make different little things. 10:35:10 Let's say I go the coffee shop and I can just open 10:35:14 this up. I large coffee with cream and sugar, 10:35:17 please. I open it up, show to it the person and 10:35:19 they will know leactsy what I want without having 10:35:22 to talk to them or anything else. So it is 10:35:24 Friday. So maybe at the end of the take, have a 10:35:27 bourbon on the rocks and keep them coming. I will 10:35:29 say that if you're trying to use this to get a 10:35:31 drink, the bartender may have some questions about 10:35:33 why you're not asking them things. 10:35:35 But it's extremely simple. Up in the upper 10:35:38 left-hand corner is a little kind of piece of 10:35:42 paper with a pencil. I just open that up. And I 10:35:48 can sit here and type anything that I like. 10:35:52 Hit 10:35:56 done. Go back. And then that will show up right 10:35:57 at the top. 10:36:00 So very simple. That's really all that it does. 10:36:03 But it's a really great way for that really quick 10:36:05 communication for folks. 10:36:11 Let's see. We'll get back over here. 10:36:14 A little bit kind of more for folks, translation 10:36:17 and transcription apps. So I've got three of them 10:36:20 here and I'll show a few of them. 10:36:22 Microsoft Translator is an app that is actually 10:36:25 made to translate speech. So I can speak to it in 10:36:27 English and have that translated into I think up 10:36:32 to about 80 or more languages, including cling on. 10:36:34 But one of the things that even Microsoft didn't 10:36:38 think when they created this is: It is a great 10:36:40 accommodation for individuals who may be deaf or 10:36:42 hard-of-hearing because one communication partner 10:36:46 can speak into it and have it show up as text, and 10:36:48 the individual who is deaf or hard-of-hearing can 10:36:51 type into it and have that actually spoken out to 10:36:56 the other individual. 10:37:05 Otter AI technology. And that can be turned into 10:37:06 searchable notes. 10:37:09 And there's another app called AVA, which is good 10:37:10 for individuals who are deaf and hard-of-hearing. 10:37:14 And it can actually use artificial intelligence or 10:37:17 real transcription to be able to get that, get 10:37:18 those things. 10:37:22 So I'm going to go ahead and open up Microsoft 10:37:25 come translator. I will turn us sideways here. 10:37:29 If you notice there are four different buttons 10:37:31 there on the front of the screen. If I'm having a 10:37:34 conversation with someone and they also have the 10:37:37 app and they have their own device, I can touch 10:37:39 the button that looks like the two little people 10:37:43 talking to each other. So let me touch that. And 10:37:45 it's going bring up and I can start a new 10:37:47 conversation with folks. So I'm going to click on 10:37:49 start. 10:37:52 My name, that's how it's going to appear on the 10:37:55 screen and my language is English. I will go 10:37:58 ahead and press enter. It will give me a QR code 10:37:59 as well as a conversation code. 10:38:02 So if someone else is using this app and this app 10:38:06 is available on iOS, on Android, and online. So 10:38:11 you can use it on a Mac, a Chromebook probably, or 10:38:14 a PC to do it, as well. But I would go ahead and 10:38:15 enter. 10:38:19 And all I have to do is touch on the microphone. 10:38:21 Hello, I hope everyone's having a great 10:38:23 presentation. 10:38:28 And it will sit there and have that come up. 10:38:30 Now, if I was talking to other folks, whatever 10:38:33 they say would show up in my language even if 10:38:36 they're talking in a different language. I can 10:38:38 also bring up the keyboard here in the left-hand 10:38:41 corner. I'm using the external keyboard so it 10:38:43 doesn't come up on the screen. But I could type 10:38:47 in information, as well. So if I cannot speak, I 10:38:49 can go ahead and have that come up. 10:38:54 I'm going to leave this just so I can show you 10:38:56 -- 10:38:59 maybe, there we go. I'm going to close that. 10:39:01 This time I will just touch the microphone. This 10:39:03 is for one person. So right now I have it set up 10:39:06 that it's going translate English into Spanish. 10:39:09 And I'm going to actually touch these two little 10:39:11 microphones that are at the bottom right of your 10:39:15 screen. And this is so two folks can use the 10:39:17 exact same device to talk back and forth to each 10:39:18 other. 10:39:21 So I'm going to speak in English and it's going 10:39:24 translate it to Spanish. 10:39:26 Hello. How are you today? 10:39:36 >> H ola que tal estas. 10:39:39 >>CRAIG BURNS: : It will translate. Forgive my 10:39:41 Spanish here. 10:39:42 >> Goodnight. 10:39:44 >>CRAIG BURNS: : It will be able to translate 10:39:46 that back and forth. It does use artificial 10:39:49 intelligence so it's not perfect. It's not not 10:39:52 always to get everything completely right, but it 10:39:55 does a pretty darn good job of kind of being able 10:39:58 to really communicate with folks who don't speak 10:40:01 your native language, again who maybe are unable 10:40:03 to hear or kind of speak on their own, they can 10:40:05 always type and have that. 10:40:08 The other thing that Reilly like is that it does 10:40:12 give you that audio feedback. So if the 10:40:14 individual I'm working with speaks a different 10:40:18 language and has a print disability, is unable to 10:40:21 read or something of that sort, it's going give 10:40:24 that audio feedback to aid in communication. 10:40:27 Very cool app. This is free. It doesn't cost 10:40:32 anything to use. And it's available on pretty 10:40:34 much everything. 10:40:36 The next one that does some of the same things is 10:40:37 otter.ai. 10:40:38 >> NIKOL PRIETO: Hey, Josh. 10:40:39 >> JOSH ANDERSON: Yes. 10:40:42 >> NIKOL PRIETO: I want to introduce you to a few 10:40:45 questions. They're asking what that was 10:40:46 translator. 10:40:48 >> JOSH ANDERSON: It's called Microsoft translate 10:40:51 or maybe translator. You look it up, try to put 10:40:54 the word Microsoft in there. When I go back to my 10:40:57 slide deck, I'll show you, it's got a little 10:41:01 symbol, it's green. I think it has an A and an 10:41:04 arrow on it. I'll show you what that locks. 10:41:06 >> NIKOL PRIETO: Someone commented if the student 10:41:08 doesn't speak clearly. If you want to address 10:41:09 that. 10:41:12 And also does the MS translator have a limit to 10:41:13 the free version? 10:41:15 >> JOSH ANDERSON: It does not have a limit to the 10:41:18 free version. The speaking clearly, it is 10:41:25 artificial intelligence-based so it's not perfect. 10:41:28 But using that Microsoft artificial intelligence, 10:41:31 it does get better as time goes on. 10:41:34 Many places, Microsoft, Google, all of these 10:41:37 places that are building this speech recognition 10:41:42 AI are starting to include folks with Down's 10:41:45 Syndrome and with other kind of different 10:41:48 disabilities to try to be able to recognize those 10:41:50 voices, as well. So it's one of those things it's 10:41:53 not perfect yet, but it will start getting a lot 10:41:56 better, hopefully. 10:41:59 With otter.ai, just because I know the question 10:42:03 for the last one is Microsoft Translator 10:42:05 unlimited? Otter.ai, if you're using the free 10:42:08 version, I'm going to slide down here to the very 10:42:11 bottom, if you see down there it says account, 10:42:14 basic. If you use the basic or free account, you 10:42:18 can I don't otter.ai for 600 minutes a month. And 10:42:21 it will reset every single month. 10:42:29 The premium version I believe gives you 6,000 10:42:31 minutes a month. It varies in price fending upon 10:42:34 if you're a student, if it's part of kind of an 10:42:38 organizational thing. So the price does all 10:42:41 change a little bit. But it is a monthly fee that 10:42:44 you pay yearly. But I believe it's half price if 10:42:50 you are a student and have a student ID. So like 10:42:57 at alt IUPUI or those other EDUs. 10:43:00 But otter.ai, I will come up to the top. Is a 10:43:03 whole lot like Microsoft Translator in the way 10:43:05 that it has that transcription. It is not going 10:43:09 to translate anything. But it will actually show 10:43:12 that. So I'm going to touch that microphone down 10:43:16 on the bottom. 10:43:18 Hello, everyone, how are we doing today? 10:43:22 I hope that you're having a great presentation. 10:43:26 I am going to try to wrap this up as fast as 10:43:28 possible as I see I only have two minutes left. 10:43:34 I'm going to hit stop. I stopped that real quick 10:43:37 just because I wanted to kind of show you what it 10:43:40 does. You notice something came up that said 10:43:43 "note is processing" what makes it really nice 10:43:46 about otter is here in five minutes or so, since 10:43:49 It's pretty short, it not only will take that 10:43:52 transcription and make it searchable. So if I did 10:43:55 this for an entire meeting, it would actually sit 10:43:59 there and make it to where if I was like oh, when 10:44:03 did he talk about otter? I could go back and 10:44:06 search otter and it would go to that part. You'll 10:44:10 see it also as custom vocabulary. I know in a lot 10:44:12 of our jobs we use acronyms a lot. You can teach 10:44:18 it that when I say INDATA, maybe it fills in 10:44:20 Indiana Assistive Technology Act into there. So 10:44:22 it can really do some really cool stuff. And you 10:44:25 can see you can get free -- five free ones if 10:44:30 you're using that free version. 10:44:32 So to get back, that green symbol right there is 10:44:35 the symbol for translator, for Microsoft 10:44:37 Translator. Just because if you look at it, 10:44:39 you're going to see some different ones. 10:44:43 Craig talked a lot about AAC and about some of 10:44:46 those are symbol-based. Some individuals that use 10:44:49 those symbol-based systems become very used to 10:44:52 them and actually communicate best with those 10:44:57 symbols. So there's an app called symbol-it, made 10:45:00 by symbol speak. And it works kind of reverse of 10:45:04 a symbol-based AAC device in the way that I would 10:45:06 speak to it and the symbols will show up on the 10:45:07 screen. 10:45:10 I'm not going show this one just because it used 10:45:12 to be free. Now it actually has a monthly fee. 10:45:16 But it can help individuals who maybe communicate 10:45:19 best by knowing those symbols. And it is 10:45:21 available in different versions depending on what 10:45:25 kind of symbols you might need. 10:45:32 Just a really col AAC app. This one is 10:45:33 text-based. So if you think about the ones that 10:45:35 you spell out the words or use the different 10:45:39 words, it's called jabberwocky AAC. The 10:45:42 AAC version of the app is only on iOS right now, 10:45:45 although jobber worky is building some different 10:45:48 things into the Android system. But what this 10:45:51 uses is the facial recognition software in the 10:45:57 iPad or iPhone to track head movements and allow 10:45:59 you to completely use it hands-free. 10:46:02 I can show you what it looks like, although, for 10:46:05 one, you can't see me, so it's very hard to kind 10:46:08 of show you -- oh, it is going to let me use it. 10:46:11 So if you see that little tiny cursor moving 10:46:20 around, that is just following my head. So I can 10:46:21 blink. 10:46:30 And I'm just making a mess. 10:46:49 And then I'm just going to blink on -- 10:46:51 >> Hello, how are you? 10:46:53 >> So I did all of that just by moving my head 10:46:55 side to side and blinking. 10:46:59 So, it's not a super advanced AAC app as far as 10:47:07 word choices, pictures, but it's important that I 10:47:10 do it hands free. This version at least as of 10:47:12 right now is free to use. I don't know if Brian 10:47:14 brought this up, but with apps, one of the 10:47:17 problems is that free today may cost you tomorrow. 10:47:19 So as of right now, it is free. 10:47:22 I know I'm running a little bit over so I'll try 10:47:23 to make this pretty quick. 10:47:26 Another thing communication sometimes just getting 10:47:28 the most simple thing out can be very, very 10:47:29 difficult. 10:47:33 So for individuals who are nonverbal, perhaps 10:47:36 individuals who have major anxiety disorders, 10:47:39 autism, other things like that, if I'm hurt and 10:47:42 trying to talk to a nurse, a traditional 10:47:45 assistive, a first responder, getting that 10:47:49 communication out can be very difficult, which can 10:47:52 really cause some major problems. 10:47:56 So there's an app called italkoc. It's an 10:48:00 extremely simple app just in the the way if that 10:48:03 if I need to tell them and I'm going to touch the 10:48:08 person's body here. I'm throwing up. And then 10:48:11 they can ask me how much does your body hurt? Oh, 10:48:13 it's very high pain. And they can ask me other 10:48:17 questions. I can say yes/no, anything like that. 10:48:20 But all I have to do is touch FI touch the 10:48:24 person's head, I can tell them I'm dizzy. My 10:48:27 teeth hurt. Anything like that. A very simple 10:48:31 communication app but it makes sure that the 10:48:33 individual trying to relay the information is 10:48:37 relaying it in a way that the first responder 10:48:39 tdoctor, the nurse, can understand that 10:48:44 information. And that one is called Italkdoc. 10:48:47 And it is also completely free to use. 10:48:52 Also don't forget there's tons of other built-in 10:48:54 great accommodations and different ways to talk. 10:48:56 Facetime. Google duo. 10:49:00 Things like that can be really great. Some folks 10:49:03 even use Facetime now that you can do it in groups 10:49:06 to have an interpreter or something like that on 10:49:09 there so that folks can all communicate and 10:49:10 understand each other. 10:49:13 Visual voice mails, which goggle has a version of 10:49:17 that. It's also built into iPhones now where you 10:49:21 can see the voice mail. It transcribes it. 10:49:23 Again, it's one of those things that's not 10:49:25 perfect, but it is kind of helpful. 10:49:29 Texting has been an amazing accommodation for 10:49:31 individuals with hearing disabilities and 10:49:33 different things like that being able to text 10:49:37 information back and forth and email, of course, 10:49:39 is a great way to stay in touch and communicate, 10:49:41 as well. 10:49:43 There's a ton out there. There's way too many to 10:49:47 name in one presentation. 10:49:49 People with different barriers will have different 10:49:51 needs and will need different accommodations. 10:49:53 Most of the things that I talked about are free or 10:49:57 very low cost. And many of the ones that even 10:50:00 Craig talked about may have a free trial. So if 10:50:02 you're kind of looking for something special, try 10:50:06 out those free trials before you make your 10:50:06 decision. 10:50:09 Also, depending upon the communication needs, it 10:50:11 may take more than one of some of these 10:50:13 accommodations to really be able to get things 10:50:14 done. 10:50:17 And then bridging apps, which Amy will be here 10:50:20 talking about later, state AT programs like INDATA 10:50:23 and the other ones across the country, are a 10:50:25 really great place to start as you look for these 10:50:27 because they might have these devices available 10:50:31 with theapps on them for you to try out. Bridging 10:50:34 apps has some great tools that I'm sure Amy will 10:50:37 talk about later to be able to research and find 10:50:39 out what might be able to work for you in your 10:50:41 different communication needs or the different 10:50:44 communication needs of the folks that you work 10:50:45 with. 10:50:47 I did leave a little bit of time for questions. I 10:50:49 know that, well, let me rephrase that. I went 10:50:52 five minutes over and left no time for questions. 10:50:54 But if you do have questions, please put them in 10:50:58 the Q & A and Craig and I will happily monitor 10:51:00 that to hopefully get you the information you 10:51:03 need. But thank you so much for kind of listening 10:51:05 to us there. And I'm sorry that I broke into a 10:51:07 little bit of your break. 10:51:10 >> BRIAN NORTON: Thanks, Craig. Thanks, Josh. 10:51:14 We appreciate you guys. And thank you for that. 10:51:16 I'm going to bring back up my screen. We are 10:51:22 going to take a break. And so we will break until 10:51:24 11. 10:51:28 And so please feel free to did that. I have put 10:51:30 up a couple -- I think we've had a couple of 10:51:34 requests for the CEU quiz download link. A 10:51:37 reminder that that doesn't take you to a web page 10:51:40 or anything like that. It will actually just 10:51:43 download it directly to your downloads folder. So 10:51:45 go ahead and put that into your browser, it should 10:51:47 just automatically start downloading that quiz for 10:51:49 you. 10:51:52 Along with the AAC institute in Nikol's email if 10:51:55 you have any troubles with that. But we're going 10:51:58 to take a break. We'll start back up at 11 and 10:52:02 we'll see you in a few. 11:00:16 >> BRIAN NORTON: All right. We will jump back in 11:00:17 and get started here. I wanted to bring your 11:00:21 attention to the CEU quiz. And also the 11:00:24 AAC website and Nikol's email. Nikol, you'll be 11:00:25 getting a lot of emails. 11:00:27 >> NIKOL PRIETO: I'm ready for them. 11:00:29 >> BRIAN NORTON: Excellent. 11:00:35 So, our next session is apps for learning. And we 11:00:40 have Belva and Lisa, Belva and Lisa are both on 11:00:43 our clinical team. And I believe Belva is going 11:00:45 first. Belva is our vision team lead. Belva, are 11:00:47 you there? 11:00:48 >>>> BELVA SMITH: I'm here, Brian. 11:00:50 >> BRIAN NORTON: Excellent. I'm going to go 11:00:53 ahead and stop my share and that way you can share 11:00:54 your screen. 11:01:16 Excellent. 11:01:18 >>>> BELVA SMITH: All right. There we go. Hi, 11:01:22 everybody. I'm going to do my best to get through 11:01:25 my slides as quickly as possible so that I don't 11:01:29 use up any of Lisa's time. But I wanted to make 11:01:33 sure that I did a quick introduction for myself. 11:01:37 I am, as Brian said, the vision team lead for our 11:01:41 clinical team at Easterseals Crossroads. And I 11:01:44 don't have any relevant financial or nonfinancial 11:01:47 relationship to disclose. 11:01:55 I'm going to talk about two apps today, the 11:01:58 first one, let's go ahead and switch over, the 11:02:01 first one was will be the KNFB reader app. These 11:02:04 will be apps for accessing text. Because I 11:02:06 primarily work with people that are visually 11:02:09 impaired, I've kind of always thought of this app 11:02:12 as an app for a person who might be visually 11:02:18 impaired. But it really is for anybody that might 11:02:22 be blind or low vision as well as dyslexic. 11:02:26 This app was developed by the national federation 11:02:30 of the blind and sense row tech, I hope I said 11:02:33 that correctly. It is currently available for 11:02:36 iOS, Android and Windows 10 devices. 11:02:40 It was originally released as an app in September 11:02:47 of 2017. And I will let you know as Brian 11:02:49 mentioned earlier, it's hard to talk about apps 11:02:52 without including devices. When this was first 11:02:57 released, it was actually released on a no Keough 11:03:01 phone with a digital camera. So the two devices 11:03:07 worked together to do the transaction of text -- 11:03:09 Nokia phone. 11:03:11 However, when the smartphones came on the market 11:03:14 and became so popular for everyone, they were able 11:03:16 to develop the app, which was great. 11:03:21 So what is the KNFBreader app? Its an 11:03:23 award-winning mobile app for people that are blind 11:03:27 or low vision or dyslexic or have any kind of 11:03:29 print disability. 11:03:33 And what it does is convert text to speech or text 11:03:37 to Braille. And if a person has any visual 11:03:42 impairment or happens to be totally blind, the 11:03:47 KNFB reader or again dislicksic, the KNFB reader 11:03:49 will allow you to read your mail, brochures, 11:03:51 receipts, menus and all that kind of stuff 11:03:54 independently. How much does it cost? Well it 11:03:56 costs $100. 11:04:01 And that, to me, that's very expensive. But, 11:04:04 again, if it fits the need of the individual, it 11:04:07 is a one-time fee. It's not like you have to pay 11:04:15 a monthly service charge to use it. 11:04:20 So the app is going to turn printed text into 11:04:23 speech by capturing your device, your device's 11:04:25 camera or a connected scanner. 11:04:29 So, the app then performs OCR to the printed text 11:04:32 so that it can be read aloud. And for those of 11:04:37 you that are saying well what's OCR? OCR is an 11:04:41 optical character recognition, and it works with 11:04:46 the technology to convert virtually any kind of 11:04:52 image containing text into machine-readable text. 11:04:59 To use the KNFB reader app, you're going to need a 11:05:02 smartphone and/or a computer with a scanner or a 11:05:07 camera. The KNFB reader app, as mentioned, can be 11:05:10 downloaded from your device's app store. So if 11:05:14 you're on a computer, you can go to your Windows, 11:05:17 I think they call it an app store, and look for 11:05:20 the download. Or if you're on an Android, then 11:05:24 you go to your goggle play store and look for it. 11:05:27 And on an iPhone you would just go to the app 11:05:28 store and look for it. 11:05:30 And then config the app to fit your needs. 11:05:33 Because it does have a lot of different settings 11:05:37 that need to be customized to fit whatever your 11:05:39 needs might be. 11:05:43 So the first step to capturing the text is again 11:05:45 to use that camera or scanner. 11:05:47 Make sure you have some good lighting. Make sure 11:05:51 it's good print. And you've got to have some sort 11:05:54 of a steady hand or a stand. 11:05:58 If your hands are real shaky, then there are 11:06:01 literally hundreds of different types of stands 11:06:06 that can be used to place your device in so that 11:06:08 you don't have to worry about your shaky hand. 11:06:11 And then the second step is to just wait for the 11:06:15 app to convert the text to the readable, editable 11:06:18 text. And it should only take a few seconds. 11:06:23 So if you've captured a print and it's taking a 11:06:26 really long time to process, you probably just 11:06:28 need to capture it again because something 11:06:32 probably failed in that first capture. 11:06:38 The KNFB reader app is unique. It has patented 11:06:41 imaging processing technology built in to help 11:06:45 capture accurate photos. It also has a field of 11:06:46 view which reports and ensures that everything on 11:06:51 the page is being captured. And the tilt guidance 11:06:55 quietly vibrates or beeps to let you know when 11:07:00 you're lined up properly with the print before you 11:07:02 actually do your capture. 11:07:05 And then the advanced speech technology reads 11:07:08 aloud with high quality voices and in many 11:07:11 different languages. 11:07:14 Multiple page mode is quick and easy to capture 11:07:17 multiple pages. This is great if you're doing a 11:07:22 book or a manual or any other long, formatted 11:07:25 materials. 11:07:29 And the stand mode takes the photo of the text 11:07:32 automatically as you turn the page. This works 11:07:36 especially well with batch mode, again for books 11:07:40 or long materials. It captures single and 11:07:43 multi-column formats. And it highlights the text 11:07:46 as it's read aloud and that's great for those 11:07:51 persons with disabilities like dyslexia or even 11:07:52 low vision. 11:07:55 You can adjust the font size, the spacing, the 11:08:00 backgrounds. Those are all easy to customize in 11:08:06 the settings of the app itself. 11:08:09 And what the KNFB reader cannot do because it's 11:08:11 always important to talk about what it can't do, 11:08:15 too, it's not designed to use with handwriting or 11:08:22 scrolling text on a screen or a sign. Accuracy 11:08:26 for your product containers, food boxes, tea bags, 11:08:28 things like that, that's going to vary especially 11:08:32 if the written information on those containers is 11:08:34 artistically presented or is surrounded by 11:08:36 pictures or graphics. 11:08:39 That's what I was saying earlier to make sure that 11:08:42 your print is good. It's important that the text 11:08:46 that you're trying to capture is actually text and 11:08:51 not some sort of an artistically presented text. 11:08:56 And then other circumstances that might decrease 11:09:01 your accuracy include text that's printed on 11:09:07 cylinders or wrapped or incomplete images. So, 11:09:10 like supervisor cans and medicine bottles, you can 11:09:14 capture that text, but it's not easy to do. 11:09:18 LED and LCD screens with refreshing text such as 11:09:21 digital clocks, computer screens and cell phone 11:09:24 screens, those can also be tricky. Again, they 11:09:27 can be captured, but your accuracy might not be as 11:09:28 well. 11:09:33 Vending machine buttons or instructions, engraved 11:09:38 materials such as serial numbers on some devices. 11:09:41 And also very large printed text can be very 11:09:43 difficult to capture. 11:09:47 Postted signs such as signs on a transit vehicle 11:09:52 or signs in a shop window. Conventional 11:09:54 and analog clocks, those are all going to be 11:09:58 things that you may be able to get some accuracy 11:10:01 out of, but it's going to be decreased because of 11:10:06 the type of text that you're trying to capture. 11:10:11 Also you want to watch out for surface reflections 11:10:14 and glare. So if you're on a glass desktop, you 11:10:16 may have some difficulty with that. 11:10:20 Then also distance between the camera and the 11:10:21 targeted text. 11:10:24 Now, I have been able to sit, you know, four or 11:10:28 five feet or stand 4 or 5 feet from a sign and 11:10:32 capture it and have good luck with it. But, 11:10:35 again, if you're real far away, you're probably 11:10:38 not going to have a very good outcome. 11:10:41 And, of course, the text layout is important. 11:10:45 The curvature of the targeted text, wrinkles 11:10:47 increases. So if you're perhaps trying to read 11:10:51 some mail that maybe has some deep creases in it 11:10:54 what, I usually do is try to run that across the 11:10:56 edge of the desk or tabletop before I try to 11:10:59 capture it because you want your page to be as 11:11:01 flat as possible. 11:11:04 Also, background images and colors have a lot to 11:11:07 do with how well the outcome is going to be. And 11:11:11 then ambient lighting is very important. And then 11:11:14 as I mentioned earlier, shadows can also be 11:11:15 important. 11:11:17 And then, of course, you want to make sure that 11:11:20 you keep your fingers and neckties out of the way 11:11:23 of the camera before you try to capture the text. 11:11:25 And the fingers are probably the most important 11:11:27 one. 11:11:30 I am not able to actually do a demonstration of 11:11:34 the KNFB reader app because it does cost $100 and 11:11:38 I don't have it. But another thing that INDATA 11:11:42 does, if you go to their website and that's 11:11:45 eastersealstech.com, you'll find a location for 11:11:49 our YouTube videos that twri to release. We were 11:11:52 toying a better job before COVID. I don't know 11:11:56 how well or how much we're releasing them. But 11:12:01 this particular video is actually from 2014. And 11:12:05 the presenter for this video is Anna, who is one 11:12:08 of my coworkers, you'll be hearing from her later 11:12:11 today. But I'm just going to play her YouTube 11:12:13 video here real quick that's going to show you how 11:12:22 to use the KNFB reader app. Again this is from 11:12:24 2014 so some things may have changed since then 11:12:27 but you'll get the basic idea. Here we go. 11:12:35 [Music.] 11:12:49 >> WADE WINGLER: Hi, I'm Wade Wingler with the 11:12:53 INDATA Project in Indiana. The KNFB reader has 11:12:56 been a legend for a portable scanner reading 11:12:58 solution for people who are blind or visually 11:13:01 impaired. Recently it became available on the 11:13:05 iPhone. So our own Anna Long is going to show us 11:13:06 this app. 11:13:13 >> Hi, this is Anna from Easterseals crossroads. 11:13:15 This is your tech tip for the day. Today I'm 11:13:19 going to show you this new iOS app called 11:13:21 KNFB reader with my iPhone. It is compatible with 11:13:26 both iPhone and iPad. It is a scanning app that 11:13:29 converts printed text into speech to provide 11:13:32 access to both single and multiple-page documents 11:13:36 with the activation of a button on an iPhone or an 11:13:39 iPad. It is also compatible with voiceover. 11:13:44 I compared this app with a few scanning apps in 11:13:47 the market and found it much faster and more 11:13:50 accurate in terms of text recognition. 11:13:53 There are also a few helpful features that might 11:13:59 be missing in otherapps. 11:14:04 Voice over. KNFB reader file explorer button. 11:14:08 >> Anna. In the middle of the screen you will 11:14:11 find two buttons. On the left is a button that 11:14:13 has a camera icon. This is called take a picture 11:14:15 by voiceover. 11:14:16 >> Take picture. Button. 11:14:20 >> Anna: There's also a button on the right. 11:14:25 That button is called field of view report with an 11:14:26 eye on the icon. 11:14:29 >> Field of view report. Button. 11:14:32 >> Anna: The take picture button is to allow you 11:14:37 to scan a document. And the field of view report 11:14:41 is to assist with aligning the camera relative to 11:14:43 the document. And I'll show you in a minute on 11:14:44 how to use it. 11:14:51 And the upper right, there is also a tilt guidance 11:14:54 switch button. If you turn it on, it will assist 11:14:57 with capturing the perfect picture of the 11:15:00 document. In the upper left, there is a file 11:15:04 explorer button that will let you access a list of 11:15:07 files already scanned in and saved. 11:15:09 >> File explorer button. 11:15:12 >> Anna: You'll find the quick start guide and 11:15:15 the full use guide. 11:15:21 >> Back button. Quick start guide KNFB reader. 11:15:24 Full user guide KNFB reader. But l back button. 11:15:28 >> Anna: Let me activate the back button to go 11:15:29 back to the previous screen. 11:15:35 >> take picture button. 11:15:39 >> Anna: There is also a button to turn on and 11:15:40 off or send automatic. 11:15:42 >> Camera flash is on, button. 11:15:46 >> Anna: For now I will leave it on. Directly an 11:15:51 above the tilt button there is a settings button. 11:15:55 This will allow you to adjust how you want it to 11:15:57 read. 11:15:59 >> Settings. Back button. 11:16:01 >> Anna: For example, whether you want it to 11:16:04 start reading automatically right after scanning 11:16:08 or allow reading in the background when you're 11:16:10 multitasking with different apps. And I have all 11:16:14 those buttons on except the very first one. 11:16:21 Flashlight is always on. I like to have a better 11:16:23 control with the flashlight myself. So I need it 11:16:24 off. 11:16:27 And the bottom you will find a text button. 11:16:30 >> Text, tab, 2 of 3. 11:16:35 >> Anna: This is to let you control how you want 11:16:37 recognized text to be presented on the screen. 11:16:39 You can change the font type, font size, text 11:16:44 color, text background color, line distance and 11:16:45 some highlight sentence. 11:16:49 >> Selected. Text. Tab. 2 of 3. 11:16:53 >> Anna: Let me go back to main screen and 11:16:56 demonstrate how it scans the small prints behind a 11:16:58 medicine box. 11:17:02 I slowly lift up the box until around 6 to 11:17:12 8 inches above. And then I activate the field of 11:17:15 view report button to check that it's lined up 11:17:19 right. Now keep in mind that the camera may exist 11:17:22 in the upper right hand corner behind the iPhone 11:17:25 and I have my iPhone in a portrait orientation at 11:17:28 this point. 11:17:32 >> All are visible rotated 1 degrees clockwise. 11:17:35 >> Anna: If I don't hear all four edges 11:17:36 visible 11:17:39 as zero degrees plot about wise spoken, I continue 11:17:43 to lift up my iPhone and adjust the position 11:17:47 accordingly. So once I hear the phrase, I touch 11:17:57 the take picture button. 11:17:59 >> Active ingredients. 11:18:01 >> Pause it first. It will then start recognizing 11:18:10 the text and reading it out loud. 11:18:13 >>>> BELVA SMITH: Okay. And I paused there. I 11:18:16 think Anna did a great job of describing what the 11:18:19 screen is going to look like and how the settings 11:18:21 can be adjusted and how to get to those. Again, 11:18:24 this is from 2014, so you may find your screen to 11:18:26 look a little bit different. But you'll get the 11:18:29 general idea. And if you want to watch Anna's 11:18:32 full video, you can always, as I said earlier, go 11:18:36 to eastersealstech.com and look for the tech tip 11:18:39 videos. You'll find a whole bunch of good videos 11:18:40 there. 11:18:43 We try to keep our tech tips under 5 minutes. 11:18:46 Sometimes they go a little bit over. And that 11:18:48 happened to be one that was a little bit longer. 11:18:51 So that's why I didn't let the whole thing play. 11:18:56 Okay. So if there are any questions about the 11:18:59 KNFB reader app, please feel free to go ahead and 11:19:03 pop those into the Q & A. 11:19:05 And then the second app that we're going to talk 11:19:11 about today is an app that I just absolutely love. 11:19:14 In fact, I tell everybody that I meet with about 11:19:19 this app who might have an Apple device. So this 11:19:24 app is called see AI. It was released by 11:19:29 Microsoft in July of 2017. And by the end of 11:19:34 2017, Microsoft reported having assisted over 11:19:36 3 million tasks. And I think they were quite 11:19:41 surprised at how much the app was actually being 11:19:42 used. 11:19:46 They did also happen to receive several awards, 11:19:51 including the Helen Keller achievement award. 11:19:54 So what is seeing AI? Well, it's an artificial 11:19:58 intelligence application developed again by 11:20:03 Microsoft for iOS. So, unlike KNFB reader, this 11:20:07 does only work on Apple devices. 11:20:10 We were told a couple of years ago that it was 11:20:14 coming to Android. But that still hasn't happened 11:20:17 as far as I'm aware. 11:20:20 Seeing AIdoes I don't the device camera to 11:20:26 identify people, objects, and then the app will 11:20:28 and much more. It's more than just people and 11:20:28 objects. 11:20:30 And then the app will audapproximately describe 11:20:34 those objects for people. And how much does it 11:20:37 cost? Well this is the probably I'm going to call 11:20:40 it the second best thing about this app because it 11:20:44 is free. And I'll tell you what my first thing 11:20:48 about it is in just a minute or two. 11:20:54 Did I miss? 11:20:56 Sorry, I backed up there. I also have another 11:20:59 tech tip video that I'm going to show here. And 11:21:01 after this one, I'll probably cut it short, as 11:21:04 well. But after this one, I am going to do a 11:21:08 quick demonstration of how seeing AI works. So 11:21:15 we'll get this video. Okay. Here we go. 11:21:26 >> Hi, my name is Brian Norton with Easterseals 11:21:29 Crossroads in the INDATA Project. And today we're 11:21:31 going to take a look at seeing AI and some of the 11:21:34 new features that are there. Belva Smith, who is 11:21:37 the team lead for our vision team here, is going 11:21:40 to show us some new features. So let's take a 11:21:42 look at those. 11:21:44 >>>> BELVA SMITH: Hi, I'm Belva Smith from the 11:21:47 Easterseals assistive technology department. And 11:21:50 I'm going to talk to you guys today about a new 11:21:52 feature in an app that hope any you've already 11:21:56 heard about if you're blind or visually impaired. 11:21:58 And if not, then you're going to want to listen 11:22:02 closely to this tech tip. It's about the 11:22:09 Microsoft Seeing AI app. And that's 11:22:15 Seeing AI. You can find it for free in the Apple 11:22:17 app store. Right now it is only available on the 11:22:22 iOS devices. And it has been working for me, 11:22:25 amazingly. However, a couple of weeks ago, they 11:22:29 did an update. And with that new update, they've 11:22:32 introduced some new features. And one of those 11:22:35 new features is handwriting. Yes. That's right. 11:22:40 Handwriting. It has the ability to perform OCR on 11:22:43 handwritten information. And to this date, this 11:22:47 is the very first app, this is the very first 11:22:50 program that's ever been able do this. 11:22:53 So, good work, Microsoft. 11:22:56 And if you are using the app, make sure to check 11:22:59 updates because with each update, they're not only 11:23:01 improving the services they're already providing 11:23:04 with the app, but they're adding new features. 11:23:07 With this last update, there were three new 11:23:11 features. 11:23:14 Okay. And I'm going to pause that there because 11:23:18 that was the first best thing. And that's the 11:23:23 handwriting. I often, over the years, have had 11:23:27 clients who need to be able to read handwriting 11:23:31 for different reasons. But because everyone's 11:23:35 handwriting is so different, the ability to be 11:23:38 able to actually capture the handwriting and using 11:23:45 it, it's tricky. So, I'm surprised that it hasn't 11:23:47 happened, but -- 11:23:49 >> Short text. 11:23:53 >>>> BELVA SMITH: So I've opened the Seeing AI app 11:23:55 up now on my iPad. And across the bottom of the 11:23:59 screen is where all the different channels are. 11:24:02 That's what they call each different feature. 11:24:05 They refer to them as channels. And it does work 11:24:09 well with voiceover. I don't have voiceover on 11:24:13 today. But if you are using voiceover, you can 11:24:15 just simply swipe to the right and the left to go 11:24:18 through the different channels. 11:24:23 And each new channel that you go to has a video 11:24:28 that describes how to use that particular feature. 11:24:32 So, very easy to learn how to use it. Most 11:24:35 importantly, just like with the KNFB reader or 11:24:37 just like with anything where you're capturing 11:24:40 text, you want to make sure that you've got a 11:24:42 steady hand and pretty decent lighting. 11:24:47 So, I am going to hold up a little list that I 11:24:50 have. Well, first I will switch my channel to the 11:24:51 handwriting. 11:24:53 >> Handwriting, preview. 11:24:56 >>>> BELVA SMITH: And here is where I could go 11:24:59 into the video on how to use it. But I'm going go 11:25:01 back out of that and just go into the handwriting 11:25:04 feature. And I'm going to hold my note up. And 11:25:07 I'm going to do my best to keep my hand steady. 11:25:09 And with handwriting, you do have to take a 11:25:11 picture. So I'm going to touch. 11:25:15 >> Processing. Market list milk, eggs, butter, 11:25:16 steak. 11:25:18 >>>> BELVA SMITH: For those of you who can 11:25:20 actually see the screen, you will see that I 11:25:23 printed milk, eggs and butter, but I did in 11:25:27 cursive steak. And my handwriting is not very 11:25:32 good. But it processed all of it and very, very 11:25:36 quickly it processed all of it. 11:25:39 So now I'm going to go back to that main screen 11:25:42 and just go over some of the different things that 11:25:46 it does offer. So it will do short text, which 11:25:48 means you don't have to capture. All you have to 11:25:51 do is hold any printed text up behind it and it 11:25:52 will capture it. 11:25:57 It also can do a full page document. It can do 11:26:01 bar codes. And as I mentioned earlier, it can 11:26:06 also do people. So if you take a -- capture a 11:26:09 person and put a name to it, then the next time 11:26:12 you enter a room where that person is, it can 11:26:15 actually identify that person and tell you that 11:26:18 Joey's in the room and he's about 5 feet away from 11:26:18 you. 11:26:23 It can also do currency. It can also do a scene. 11:26:28 It also is a color identifier. The handwriting. 11:26:31 And then it's also a light detecter. 11:26:35 So, if you talked about, I don't know, we'll say 11:26:39 6, 7 years ago for an individual to perform all of 11:26:42 these different actions, they would have to have 11:26:47 four or five different devices in their toolbox to 11:26:50 be able to do that. But now you can do it all 11:26:53 with just your smartphone. And how many of us 11:26:56 have a smartphone in our pocket? 11:27:00 I'll do quickly here the currency, as well. 11:27:01 Oh, wrong. 11:27:03 >> Currency. 11:27:05 >>>> BELVA SMITH: So you'll see on this screen, 11:27:08 too, the play the video tutorial is there. So it 11:27:10 will talk me through or show me how to use it. 11:27:14 These are accessible. Again, the first time you 11:27:17 use the app or at any time just by going into the 11:27:17 help. 11:27:20 So I'm just going to hold my money behind. 11:27:23 >> $5 U.S. Dollars. 11:27:27 >>>> BELVA SMITH: There we go. And we'll do one 11:27:29 more real quick because I got a few minutes left 11:27:31 we'll do the seeing. 11:27:33 >> Seeing, preview. 11:27:35 >>>> BELVA SMITH: So I'm just going to pick the 11:27:40 camera up and focus on my living room here. 11:27:43 >> Processing. A living room filled with 11:27:46 furniture and a fireplace. 11:27:47 >>>> BELVA SMITH: Okay. So there we go. Now 11:27:50 everybody's seen my living room. 11:27:54 But that is the seeing AI app. And, again, the 11:27:57 first best thing about it is it can do 11:28:00 handwriting. I do have a lot of consumers that in 11:28:04 their job they are required to read handwriting. 11:28:07 And so now we finally have a way for them to be 11:28:10 able do that. And the second best thing is that 11:28:11 it's free. 11:28:13 Its biggest down fall for me at this time is the 11:28:17 fact that it is only available on the iOS devices. 11:28:21 And I just want to go back to the KNFB reader app, 11:28:24 too and say that there are different times that it 11:28:27 is available in the goggle play store for less 11:28:33 than $100. But that -- I can't tell you when that 11:28:37 is. But if its an app that you're looking for and 11:28:39 you do happen to have an Android, might just for a 11:28:42 couple weeks check the app store or the Google 11:28:46 Play Store and find if it does go down in price. 11:28:49 So that's what I've got. And, again, I'm Belva 11:28:55 Smith. And now I am going to it looks like I 11:28:58 maybe am two minutes early flip it over. I am 11:29:00 going to stop sharing my screen and let Lisa 11:29:03 Becker take over and talk some more about the 11:29:06 learning apps that she's got. Thank you, guys. 11:29:11 And let me go to stop share. 11:29:14 >> BRIAN NORTON: Yes. So just before Lisa jumps 11:29:16 on here, I'll let her get set up. I think we're 11:29:23 still, we're okay with that. If you again have 11:29:25 questions, you can put that into the Q & A and 11:29:27 we'll be taking a look at those and trying to 11:29:29 answer those as folks ask them. Lisa, are you 11:29:33 there? 11:29:37 Double-check. She said she had a power 11:29:40 blip just a second ago. 11:29:43 >> NIKOL PRIETO: Brian, have you made her as a 11:29:46 participant again? I'm sorry. A presenter. 11:29:48 >> BRIAN NORTON: Yep. 11:29:52 >> LISA: Okay. Can you hear me? 11:29:53 >> BRIAN NORTON: There you are. 11:29:55 >> LISA: Is the volume okay? 11:29:57 >> BRIAN NORTON: Yeah, it sounds great. 11:30:05 >> LISA: Okay. Give me just a second here. 11:30:06 >> BRIAN NORTON: Excellent. 11:30:16 >> LISA: I mean just two minutes ago my power 11:30:17 just went crazy. 11:30:19 >> BRIAN NORTON: One of those technical glitches 11:30:21 we have to kind of live with these days, right? 11:30:24 >> LISA: This is nuts. Okay. 11:30:40 Can you see? 11:30:42 >> BRIAN NORTON: Yes, I see your screen. 11:30:44 >> LISA: Okay. 11:30:47 There we go. Okay. Hello, everybody. My name is 11:30:50 Lisa Becker. And I am assistive technology 11:30:53 technician for Easterseals Crossroads. I don't 11:30:56 have any financial relationship with any company 11:31:01 or product that I'm mentioning today. And I'm 11:31:04 going to be talking about apps for learning in a 11:31:07 couple different areas. 11:31:10 First of all, I want to talk about people that 11:31:15 have difficulty with organization and suggest some 11:31:17 possible solutions with some of the apps. 11:31:19 And then also talk a little bit about time 11:31:22 management. It kind of goes along with that. If 11:31:24 you're having difficulty with organization, you're 11:31:27 probably having difficulties with time chunking or 11:31:30 time management strategies. 11:31:34 And then we'll get into how to be an effective 11:31:40 notetaker. A lot of times if you're struggling 11:31:42 cognitively and you're having difficulty 11:31:48 concentrating, note-taking is a big barrier for 11:31:51 you and I've got some possible solutions with a 11:31:54 few relatively inexpensive apps. 11:31:57 And then if we have time, we'll get in to talking 11:32:01 about some mathematics help and help with 11:32:05 following directions and sequencing. 11:32:09 So when we're working with individuals with 11:32:11 various disabilities, a lot of times either 11:32:13 because of medication or because of the disability 11:32:18 itself, organization and time management are a big 11:32:21 challenge. So if you're thinking about someone 11:32:23 that's taking a lot of medication and having to 11:32:27 juggle a lot of doctor visits or someone that has 11:32:32 a cognitive disability, a traumatic brain injury 11:32:36 or may be on the spectrum or for a lot of 11:32:37 different reasons is having trouble with 11:32:41 organizational skills, they might need help 11:32:45 staying on task. And so in the past in paper, we 11:32:49 would talk about using check boxes or checklists. 11:32:54 We might talk about keeping different alarms. We 11:32:58 might talk about low tech, tying a little string 11:33:00 around your finger and trying to remember what 11:33:04 that was all about. 11:33:06 In this case, we have several apps that can help 11:33:10 us along with that. We can have apps that will 11:33:13 help us remember things on our calendar, on our 11:33:16 phone. And then also send us alerts if we need 11:33:20 them. And then also with our memory issues, a lot 11:33:24 of kids are using flash card programs or apps 11:33:27 these days. And we can use those for school work. 11:33:30 But we can also use them for things on the job as 11:33:33 well as things that we need to remember around the 11:33:35 house. So those are some of the things, the 11:33:38 challenges that we face with time management and 11:33:43 organization. 11:33:53 So when working of with with organization 11:33:56 needs or struggles, we need to keep track of a 11:33:59 time schedule. We need to be able to manage maybe 11:34:03 a large project at work or maybe something at home 11:34:07 where it takes multiple steps do a project. A lot 11:34:10 of times when I work with college-age students, 11:34:16 those students struggle with, you know, doing 11:34:19 something on the job but also having a project 11:34:22 that maybe is due two or three weeks from now that 11:34:25 has several steps. And so some of these apps can 11:34:29 help with those types of issues, as well. 11:34:33 When we're working with tasks, it always helps to 11:34:35 know able to mark something complete so that we 11:34:38 can see where we've been and then maybe over time 11:34:41 if this is a task that needs to be done over and 11:34:44 over again, maybe over time we don't need to see 11:34:47 that list anymore because we'll start to remember 11:34:50 some of that sequencing or we'll be prompted by 11:34:52 pictures or things like that. 11:34:57 So, those are areas that can be of great help. 11:35:08 In addition to using the time management skills, 11:35:12 we're working on a project within the project we 11:35:17 may need to allot a certain amount of time for a 11:35:20 particular part of the project. And so we're 11:35:24 working in that project, we might want to say 11:35:26 "well, I think this part of the project's going to 11:35:30 take 30 minutes." kind of like we have our agenda 11:35:33 today. So our agenda today might be that we spend 11:35:39 an hour talking about AugCom devices and then we 11:35:41 talk an hour about the learning apps that we are 11:35:44 suggesting. And then the other projects that 11:35:46 we're working on this afternoon. 11:35:50 So, everybody is faced with having to manage time. 11:35:53 What we don't want is somebody to spend so much 11:35:55 time on one part of the project that they only 11:35:57 have a short amount of time to finish everything 11:36:01 else. And so that's what some of our 11:36:04 recommendations usually deal with. 11:36:08 Some of the programs -- and can everybody hear me 11:36:10 okay? 11:36:13 >> BRIAN NORTON: Yep, we hear you. 11:36:15 >> LISA: Okay, great. Some of the programs or 11:36:19 apps that we recommend, again, most are found on 11:36:23 both iOS and Android. And I will say that the 11:36:26 multi-timer that I'm going to show you is only on 11:36:33 iOS. However those apps change all the time. And 11:36:37 there are also similar apps available on the 11:36:39 Google Play platform, as well. 11:36:42 So, today I want to demonstrate for you the to do 11:36:46 app. And the to doist app. I'm going to show you 11:36:48 one and demonstrate the other. And then I'm going 11:36:52 to show you the multitimer, which I think is a 11:36:55 really effective tool in keeping people on task. 11:37:12 As we are recording notes or taking notes, another 11:37:15 area that we struggle with is how do I pay 11:37:17 attention and try to understand while I'm 11:37:19 listening to a lecture? And then also take 11:37:22 meaningful notes so that I can review them later 11:37:23 on? 11:37:27 So, there are several apps out here that can help 11:37:30 you digitally record what's going on in the 11:37:35 lecture while you're either taking notes or allow 11:37:38 you to be more present in the classroom and 11:37:41 understand what's going on. And then review those 11:37:48 notes and make your own personal written notes 11:37:51 later on. So I'll demonstrate a notetaker for you 11:37:53 today and talk a little bit about other 11:37:55 notetakers. There's a lot of different ones out 11:37:57 there, and each one does things a little 11:38:00 differently. 11:38:03 So part of our process is to talk to the person 11:38:06 and find out really what their strengths are, how 11:38:08 do they learn? How do they remember? And then 11:38:10 try to match them up with a notetaker that works 11:38:12 really well with them. 11:38:14 I'm going to demonstrate a product for you today, 11:38:18 an app for you today, that will digitally record a 11:38:21 presentation. And it will also allow you to add 11:38:23 photographs or PowerPoint slides to the 11:38:26 presentation. And then make your own notes a 11:38:28 little bit later. It's a very powerful program 11:38:32 but it's very easy to begin to learn. And then 11:38:34 you can add skills as you feel more comfortable 11:38:36 with them. 11:38:39 That product is called son oh sent. But as I 11:38:42 said, there's a lot of other note-taking apps out 11:38:45 there that do some of the basic note-taking, as 11:38:47 well. 11:38:53 Here are some of the note-taking apps, as I said 11:38:55 there are a lot of other ones out there, all 11:39:01 varying in price. The Sonocent app is free either 11:39:04 with Android or iOS as long as you have a software 11:39:08 program for either your Mac or your laptop or 11:39:11 desktop, Windows device. 11:39:15 It's a very powerful tool when working together 11:39:19 with either the laptop or the MacBook platforms. 11:39:23 Then we also have notability and audio note that 11:39:27 have been around for quite sometime. And new 11:39:30 product to the market is one called OneNote. And 11:39:33 it's quickly catching up and doing a lot of the 11:39:35 same things that the others do, as well. That's 11:39:38 put out by Microsoft. 11:39:43 Timely, then, we're going to be talking about math 11:39:46 needs, just to call your attention to some apps 11:39:51 that are out there that can help you. And that is 11:39:54 the different math apps can help you in different 11:39:58 ways. So there are apps that can just do 11:40:01 tutorials for you. So if you need someone to just 11:40:04 "hey, teach me how to write an algebraic equation 11:40:07 with one variable." 11:40:14 Or, "teach me how to graph something" whatever the 11:40:16 topic is, you can get a tutorial in that, usually 11:40:22 in a video form. But then there are also apps 11:40:25 that allow you to solve a problem. So if you have 11:40:27 homework that you need to work on, you can check 11:40:30 your work by putting in the formula and having it 11:40:34 solved for you. And they will tell you 11:40:36 step-by-step how they got the answer. 11:40:41 So, always, you know, it's very easy for a college 11:40:44 student to say "hey, I'm just going to use that to 11:40:47 do all my homework" I always stress to them that's 11:40:50 not going to do you a darn bit of good because you 11:40:53 still have to take the test. So if you don't know 11:41:01 those steps, it not going to help you. We use it 11:41:03 to check your steps and to help you be more 11:41:05 successful on an exam. 11:41:08 And here are some of those apps. The photo math 11:41:11 app allows you to -- a lot of these allow you to 11:41:16 take a picture with your iPad's camera or your 11:41:19 iPhone or Android phone's camera and it will try 11:41:22 to solve that for you as long as it's written 11:41:27 pretty legibly and you include the entire formula 11:41:29 when you're taking that picture. 11:41:31 If we have time I'll demonstrate one of those for 11:41:32 you, as well, today. 11:41:35 So all of these basically work in a similar 11:41:39 fashion. Some of them do a little bit better job 11:41:42 explaining. Some of them cost. Some of them are 11:41:48 free. The mathway app is a very good app, but it 11:41:53 costs anywhere from $40 to $75 a year. So you 11:41:56 want to make sure that you're starting your 11:41:58 subscription right as the class is starting so 11:42:02 that you're not wasting money on something that 11:42:03 you're not going to use. 11:42:07 A lot of these other ones have free versions. And 11:42:11 the more, if you subscribe to their app, then they 11:42:15 will show you more information. Like explain a 11:42:18 little bit more how you're finding your answer on 11:42:20 each step. 11:42:26 And then another area that we do a lot of -- make 11:42:29 a lot of recommendations for is prompting and 11:42:32 queuing. So if somebody is learning -- this sort 11:42:35 of goes along with our first set of apps. This is 11:42:39 more indepth. This is if somebody's trying to 11:42:41 learn a specific task at work and it has several 11:42:45 different steps. Or if they're trying to learn 11:42:48 something at home and they keep forgetting steps. 11:42:50 You know, if you're trying to make cookies and you 11:42:52 forget the eggs, then you're not going to have 11:42:59 very good cookies. So this allows you to either, 11:43:01 depending upon the app, type the directions 11:43:03 step-by-step and allow the person to check them 11:43:06 off as they do them in the right order. You can 11:43:08 combine that with pictures of what they should be 11:43:11 doing. So if somebody has trouble understanding 11:43:14 verbal commands, they can have the picture to go 11:43:16 along with it. And it can even be a picture of 11:43:18 them doing it so that that sparks their memory a 11:43:19 little bit more. 11:43:24 And then, finally, the Cadillac app might be to 11:43:28 take a video of each step, a video of the person 11:43:33 doing that step along with a picture and the 11:43:36 written steps to do that task. 11:43:39 And then as they mark them off, it's easier for 11:43:41 them to remember maybe over time. 11:43:44 So, what we usually do, like in that case, if 11:43:47 somebody needs video in the very beginning, we 11:43:50 say, hey, that's great. But over time, they may 11:43:52 look at the picture and say "oh, I know that. I 11:43:54 don't have to watch that video." 11:43:57 And so they'll be able to learn over time that 11:43:59 sequencing and maybe not have to watch the video. 11:44:02 But it's there in case they're, you know, if they 11:44:05 need to fall back to that. 11:44:09 Here are a few of the apps that we use for 11:44:11 prompting and queuing. And there are several 11:44:14 more. This one is a little bit harder to find. 11:44:17 So you'll have to probably dig a little bit 11:44:20 deeper. And I've noticed that these seem to 11:44:22 change quite a bit. The other presenters today, 11:44:26 Belva and Josh, mentioned that sometimes the a.m.s 11:44:29 are there one day -- apps are there one day and 11:44:31 gone the next. I find that a lot with the 11:44:34 prompting and queuing apps. But typically if you 11:44:41 look under subjects for traumatic brain injury or 11:44:45 autism-type apps, you might find the prompting and 11:44:47 queuing-type apps. 11:44:51 So now I'm going switch over and try to 11:44:55 demonstrate a couple of these apps for you. And I 11:44:59 apologize it's going to take me just a minute. 11:45:30 >> BRIAN NORTON: Absolutely we see. Someone was 11:45:33 asking a question. Can you be listening to a 11:45:35 presentation such as like what we're doing today 11:45:39 and use one of those note-taking apps that you're 11:45:40 talking about? 11:45:43 >> LISA: Definitely. I'm going to demonstrate 11:45:47 the Sonocent note-taking app here if a few 11:45:50 seconds. It's better than a digital notetaker. 11:45:53 It's better than having something in the classroom 11:45:56 because it connects your notes with what you're 11:45:59 hearing. And it makes reviewing a lot easier. 11:46:02 You'll see that here in just a few minutes, yep. 11:46:03 Okay. 11:46:06 So my first app that I'd like to demonstrate is 11:46:11 the multitimer. And this can be set up any number 11:46:13 of different ways with any number of different 11:46:16 circles that you see here. Each one of the 11:46:19 circles is a timer. And you can customize any of 11:46:23 these timers' colors, times, little pictures up in 11:46:28 the corner, the description, like exercise, rest, 11:46:31 lunch, math homework, history homework and English 11:46:32 homework. 11:46:36 And what we found in reading a lot of research is 11:46:39 that it's good if you work for a short period of 11:46:41 time and then take a break, you're going to be 11:46:43 more effective if you take those short breaks. 11:46:47 And so this just makes sure that you are taking 11:46:50 the breaks and that you kind of get up and move 11:46:52 around a little bit, take a break and then go back 11:46:53 to it. 11:46:57 It's also really good if you have somebody that 11:47:01 doesn't like to do everything just in order. And 11:47:04 maybe they like to skip around based on how well 11:47:06 they're concentrating right now. 11:47:09 So if a person is sitting down, a student, let's 11:47:11 say, and they have a lot of homework this evening, 11:47:14 they can come in here and say: Do you know what? 11:47:17 I have about an hour and 45 minutes that I can do 11:47:21 my homework or possibly two hours. And it seems 11:47:24 like I've got a lot more history homework tonight. 11:47:27 So I'm going to make -- I'm going to estimate that 11:47:29 my history homework's going to take about 45 11:47:32 minutes. And I'm going to go in and set that. 11:47:35 These can be changed very, very quickly just by 11:47:37 holding your finger down on the app on the circle 11:47:40 that you want to change. So I'm going to do that 11:47:41 right now. 11:47:44 And what I'm doing right now is just holding my 11:47:47 finger down on the circle for the history. And 11:47:49 you can see you can change the colors up at the 11:47:55 top. So I'm going to make this one I'll use blue. 11:47:58 And I can change the amount of time. So if I 11:48:01 think I need 50 minutes, I can do that. And you 11:48:04 can scroll down here a little bit farther. If I 11:48:08 don't want, if I want to label to say just 11:48:12 history, I can go in and change that, as well. 11:48:15 And I can set alarms. And the alarm is what's 11:48:19 going to play after I hit my 50 minutes. And 11:48:23 it'll tell me, "hey, it's time to take a break" or 11:48:29 it's time to go on to the next. 11:48:32 T it gives you a schedule for what you're working 11:48:32 on. 11:48:35 I'll show you this in just a minute. You can also 11:48:39 go in. You can also govern in and adjust it using 11:48:43 Siri commands. Now, I'm not going to do that 11:48:45 today. But you can go into the Siri shortcuts and 11:48:48 say what is it that I'm going to say to start this 11:48:51 timer? What is it that I'm going to say to start 11:48:53 this timer? What is it that I'm going to say to 11:48:55 pause the timer? 11:48:57 So a lot of the apps that we use. 11:48:59 Now, if you jump into the settings will have some 11:49:02 sort of Siri commands that you can program into 11:49:05 it. And I would imagine that they're also in 11:49:08 there with the Google commands, as well. 11:49:12 So I'm going to mark that done. 11:49:15 So the basic idea for this multitimer is that once 11:49:18 you've set up what you need timers for, if you're 11:49:22 ready to start a topic, you just simply touch that 11:49:25 color. So we're going to start English. Annals I 11:49:29 touch the English -- and as I touch the English 11:49:31 circle, it will start counting down and I can go 11:49:35 about my business and it will remind me with an 11:49:37 alarm when that time is up. 11:49:39 If I need to pause that because I have to use the 11:49:41 restroom or somebody came to the door or whatever 11:49:43 other reason, I just touch that circle again and 11:49:47 it will show as pause. 11:49:50 If I touch it again, it'll reset it back to the 11:49:51 original amount of time. 11:49:54 So if I started something and three minutes into 11:49:58 it I had an emergency, I'm probably going to have 11:50:00 to reset that time. So that allows you do that. 11:50:03 And everything is basically just touch it, touch 11:50:05 it again or touch and hold it. And you can make 11:50:08 those changes really easily. 11:50:11 If I start my exercise, of course, I don't 11:50:13 exercise a lot, so I'm going to exercise for 8 11:50:16 seconds and we'll see what happens here. 11:50:21 So you can see it also gives you visual cues with 11:50:27 the little light, highlight going away. (sounds, 11:50:28 alarm) 11:50:30 . 11:50:33 And when I'm done, it plays a cute little alarm. 11:50:36 And I can go in and an just that alarm to whatever 11:50:36 I want. 11:50:40 So this is the multi timer and it's got several 11:50:42 different layouts. You can customize the number 11:50:44 of circles that you have. You can customize what 11:50:47 they say. It's very, very easy. This is the free 11:50:49 version. 11:50:52 Along with that, you can also go in and get a 11:50:56 journal attached to this. But you have to pay for 11:50:58 that. And some of the other features you have to 11:51:01 pay for in the upgrade. But for the majority of 11:51:06 what we do, this set of multitimers works just 11:51:08 perfectly for us. 11:51:10 If you don't remember that you can hold your 11:51:13 finger down on a circle, you can also go in and 11:51:16 make your changes through the little gear settings 11:51:19 up in the upper right hand corner. And this 11:51:22 allows you to change even more things about your 11:51:27 timer, such as how many, how they're laid out, you 11:51:33 know. And if you want to send reports about how 11:51:35 you're doing, some of that is the premium version, 11:51:37 as well. 11:51:42 So that's a real effective tool. It's called 11:51:48 multitimer. 11:51:50 The next one I want to make sure I get to because 11:51:52 I had a question about it is our note-taking app. 11:51:55 And there are several here. The one I'm going to 11:51:58 show you is the Sonocent app. It's a very cool 11:52:04 app. There we go. Real easy. Clean face. Easy 11:52:07 to use. A lot like a recorder. 11:52:09 When you first get into it, you just touch the 11:52:11 record button, which is the green button in the 11:52:17 middle. And you allow it. And it begins to 11:52:19 record right as soon as you start that. And 11:52:21 what -- the way that you know that it's recording 11:52:24 is that in the upper left-hand corner you see 11:52:28 chunks. And these happen to be blue chunks. That 11:52:32 are being recorded. Every time I pause my voice, 11:52:37 you'll see a break and a new chunk form. And I 11:52:39 can just start recording my lecture right there. 11:52:42 Now, what's really cool about this is if that's 11:52:44 all it did, that's great. I can go back and I can 11:52:47 listen to everything that's being said by using 11:52:48 this recorder. 11:52:51 However, if somebody is saying something 11:52:54 important, I can come over here and touch the red 11:52:57 circle on the right-hand side here that says 11:53:00 important, and it will change that block to a red 11:53:04 color. This is great if somebody's really good at 11:53:07 note-taking but they can't physically write very 11:53:10 well. If they're good at note-taking and they 11:53:12 know that that's important, then it's a real easy 11:53:14 way for them to mark what's important. 11:53:18 Again, classes are typically, you know, 60 to 90 11:53:21 minutes long, sometimes longer. You don't want to 11:53:24 maybe listen to the whole thing been. So this 11:53:27 allows you to mark things that you are going to 11:53:29 want to review later on. 11:53:32 And, again, if I touch the red again, it turns it 11:53:35 off and it turns back to its original color, which 11:53:36 is the blue. 11:53:39 You can go in and customize all these colors. But 11:53:42 they've got some set up for us already. 11:53:45 The dark blue might be if you have a question 11:53:48 about something. Maybe something in the lecture 11:53:52 you didn't understand. So instead of you to 11:53:54 having to go to the teacher afterwards and try to 11:53:56 describe what it is that you don't understand, you 11:53:59 can take this recording to them and actually play 11:54:03 that part of the lecture that you weren't quite 11:54:06 clear on and maybe they can explain it a little 11:54:09 bit more effectively to you. 11:54:13 We always start off very basic, so in the 11:54:16 beginning, we tell you to just go in and record 11:54:18 and get used to listening to the lecture. And 11:54:21 then if you start to get bored, try to pick out 11:54:23 the important parts and make them red. 11:54:27 Then we always have the kids that just love this 11:54:29 tool and they want to do all the color coding the 11:54:32 first day. And for them we've got a lot of other 11:54:34 little bells and whistles that they can show them. 11:54:36 Such as if somebody is talking about homework or 11:54:39 projects that are coming up, you might change that 11:54:43 color to task or green. 11:54:45 And then if somebody in the back is talking about 11:54:48 what they're going do this weekend, you might mark 11:54:52 that yellow for delete. And that way you don't 11:54:53 have to listen to that again. 11:54:57 So, a couple things about this. While it's 11:54:59 recording, I'm going to go back to regular. 11:55:02 In the upper left-hand corner, there's a number 11:55:05 one. And that is there because I can take a 11:55:09 picture. So if the teacher is writing up on the 11:55:12 whiteboard and they're maybe writing a chemistry 11:55:15 equation or something like that, I can take a 11:55:19 picture of what was on that board. Whoa. What a 11:55:24 mess. Okay. So I can take a picture right here. 11:55:26 And it will say yeah, do you want to use that 11:55:31 picture? And I just touch use photo. And that 11:55:34 adds that into that part of the lecture. 11:55:37 Now, let's say that after that, the teacher erases 11:55:40 the whiteboard and they're writing something else 11:55:43 or they're passing around something. So I have 11:55:45 nursing students that a lot of times they pass 11:55:49 around those organs that you can hold, touch, turn 11:55:54 over and check out. You could use this to take a 11:55:57 picture of whatever's being passed around in chas. 11:56:03 And the way that you do that, same way. However, 11:56:06 in order to be able to take multiple pictures, 11:56:09 you've got to tell it, hey, I'm ready for a new 11:56:11 one. And in the upper right hand corner, I always 11:56:14 describe it as an inch worm. It looks like a 11:56:17 little dotted line and then it's got a little inch 11:56:20 worm in the middle that tells me to clear the 11:56:23 screen and make way for another photograph. And 11:56:26 so if the teacher writes a lot on the board, you 11:56:31 can keep taking pictures and assigning those. 11:56:33 Now, if somebody doesn't I don't the whiteboard 11:56:37 but they use PowerPoint, on the software version 11:56:41 for either you are windows-based unit or your 11:56:45 MacBook, you can download the PowerPoint slides 11:56:48 just like we're doing the pictures. And it works 11:56:50 really effectively. 11:56:53 So part of this I try to get across to people is 11:56:57 this is an companion app that works with the 11:57:01 windows-based software or the Mac software. And 11:57:03 one does something better than another. 11:57:06 So if I have to take pictures, my iPad or my phone 11:57:09 is going to take pictures better than turning my 11:57:13 laptop around to take a picture with the 11:57:15 forward-facing. It doesn't have a forward-facing 11:57:16 camera. 11:57:19 But, if somebody is going to use PowerPoint 11:57:22 slides, then I'm going to want to use the laptop 11:57:25 version and add those slides later. 11:57:28 Now, whatever I record on my iPad, I can also 11:57:33 transfer to my laptop, my desktop, or my MacBook. 11:57:37 It comes with directions on how to transfer those. 11:57:39 So that's kind of cool. 11:57:43 Now, let me show you how it replays. 11:57:48 I'm going to name this. I will call it Sonocent 11:57:50 notes. 11:57:56 And it will remember the date and time for me. 11:57:59 When I'm doing my training, I always talk about 11:58:01 naming conventions and why it's important to name 11:58:03 your files a certain way. But for our purposes, 11:58:05 this is going to work out great. 11:58:09 So I see my recording right here and I click on 11:58:12 it. And I see the recording is starting or has 11:58:15 started up here at the top. And I just touch the 11:58:17 play button at the bottom. 11:58:20 >> Okay. And it begins to record right as soon as 11:58:23 you start that. And the way that you know that 11:58:25 it's recording is that in the upper left-hand 11:58:28 corner you see chunks and these happen to be blue 11:58:32 chunks that are being recorded. 11:58:34 >> LISA: You can see it's pretty good quality 11:58:37 recording. As I'm listening to it, I'm using the 11:58:40 controls across the bottom. Screen. I can jump 11:58:44 forward a chunk at a time. Or if I didn't quite 11:58:46 understand it, I can touch the rewind and it will 11:58:49 junk back at a chunk at a time. 11:58:52 And so in the software version, you can adjust the 11:58:56 speed of the speaker or playback. And you can 11:58:58 filter out background noises. And there's a lot 11:59:01 of other things you can do to kind of tweak your 11:59:04 recording. 11:59:08 But you can kind of see here where we are. As I 11:59:10 scroll through here, if I want to play another 11:59:12 part of it as I scroll through, you can see it 11:59:15 changes to the different pictures. And then I 11:59:17 just touch where I want to play it and then touch 11:59:19 play. 11:59:21 >> And they're writing something else or they're 11:59:23 passing around something. So I have nursing 11:59:25 students. 11:59:29 >> LISA: So that's the basics of the Sonocent 11:59:31 notetaker. 11:59:34 Real effective tool. Like I said, you can start 11:59:36 off really basic and then add things to it as you 11:59:37 go. 11:59:40 There are a lot of other notetakers here. They 11:59:44 look very similar. Whoops. 11:59:48 They lock very similar. You can type your notes 11:59:52 in. As it's playing back, you can see where it is 11:59:54 playing back from the numbers along the left-hand 11:59:57 side of the screen. You can add pictures or 12:00:02 handwriting or scribble if you want to. So these 12:00:07 are some of the similar pictures or notetakers. 12:00:13 Again, lots of different ways you can take notes. 12:00:15 Again, when we sit down and talk with somebody, we 12:00:17 try to figure out what notes they're going to be 12:00:21 taking, what notes they're going to be taking. 12:00:24 And help them choose what might work out best for 12:00:25 them. 12:00:28 I'm kind of out of time. But I wanted to show you 12:00:32 the to do list organizer. This, I used to 12:00:35 recommend this app. It used to be called wonder 12:00:40 list, Wunderlist. And it's fantastic. It was so 12:00:44 fantastic that Microsoft bought them just recently 12:00:48 and switched them over to the Microsoft to do app. 12:00:51 And it's free if you have the Microsoft -- you can 12:00:55 download it for free. It's on both platforms. 12:01:00 Real easy way to keep track of tasks. You set 12:01:03 these up very easily. If I need to add a task, I 12:01:10 just touch at the bottom and type it in. 12:01:14 And when you hit enter, it adds it to the list. 12:01:16 Real easy way to mark it off. You just touch the 12:01:19 circle when it's done. And it crosses it off and 12:01:22 moves it off your list. 12:01:25 We did testing for the full-day training so I just 12:01:28 touched that and it marks it off the list. And 12:01:30 we're just about the finished with this. 12:01:34 Now, what I can do if you'll notice here, if there 12:01:37 are items that are super, super important, I can 12:01:41 mark them with a star over on the right-hand side. 12:01:44 And that shows up in the very important list over 12:01:46 here on the left side where it says important and 12:01:50 it's got the stars. So if I just have maybe a 12:01:52 half an hour to work on something, I might want to 12:01:56 check that very important list and see if there's 12:01:58 any of those things that I could work on. Or if 12:02:00 there's something that has a due date, I might 12:02:06 look under planned. And I can see by due date 12:02:08 what's coming up that's due and work on something 12:02:09 like that. 12:02:12 So the idea is the list is always in front of you. 12:02:15 You can have multiple lists and they all just show 12:02:19 up along that left-hand side there. 12:02:22 But when we use the important and the plan and 12:02:28 then the my day, it shows you everything that's 12:02:30 due during that time period or that's most 12:02:32 important across all your lists. So I could have 12:02:35 a list at home, school, work, whatever, and they 12:02:37 would all show up here. 12:02:43 Another very similar app, like I said, there's so 12:02:46 many that do these things, it's just whatever 12:02:49 works best for you. And you can -- this one is 12:02:51 called to doist,. 12:02:56 And it's also available I believe on both. 12:03:00 Let me do one other thing and then I'll finish it 12:03:03 up because I wanted the show you a math app. 12:03:31 So here's an app where if you type the formula in, 12:03:34 you can, this is called CY math. You can type in 12:03:38 the formula and then touch the play button at the 12:03:41 bottom and it tells you how to solve that problem 12:03:46 and gives you some basic instructions on that how 12:03:50 you did it step-by-step. 12:03:58 Here's another one, if I have a handwritten 12:04:04 problem, I can a take a picture of it. 12:04:09 And there 12:04:12 it shows the steps. 12:04:16 And then if I say explain the 12:04:19 steps, it will explain them, each one, as I touch 12:04:22 each one. 12:04:31 And like I said, there's a bunch of those. The 12:04:35 Khan Academy app is if you're learning. But if 12:04:38 you need to brush up on a topic, that's a really 12:04:39 good one there. 12:04:54 And that is it for my apps. I'm sorry the last to 12:04:56 went a little bit fast but I wanted to make sure 12:04:59 you at least saw what they did and what they were 12:05:01 capable of doing. 12:05:03 Does anybody have any questions? 12:05:13 >> BRIAN NORTON: I've been keeping a look at the 12:05:16 Q & A. There was one question about Sonocent. 12:05:18 Can it convert the recording to text? I wanted to 12:05:22 see if you had an answer for that one. 12:05:25 >> LISA: Now, it can work with Dragon 12:05:28 NaturallySpeaking. 12:05:31 My experience it's not very 12:05:33 good because you are taking a recording of 12:05:38 somebody that did not train dragon and trying 12:05:41 to -- so you use Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you 12:05:43 have to do a little bit of training for accuracy. 12:05:47 And if you're trying to run, you know, your 12:05:50 professor's voice through something that he didn't 12:05:55 train, it's hit-and-miss. But it does work with 12:05:57 Dragon NaturallySpeaking. 12:06:00 >> BRIAN NORTON: Great. 12:06:05 Other questions? I don't see any other ones 12:06:06 so we 12:06:10 are going to go ahead and take a break for lunch. 12:06:13 We will re-gather around 12:45. 12:06:16 I'm going to leave this up on my screen. This is 12:06:20 the download link for the CEU quiz. And then, 12:06:23 again, the link for the AAC Institute and how to 12:06:26 go ahead and register for your CEUs. 12:06:29 And then I'm sure Nikol loves the fact that I put 12:06:32 her email address up here all day long but that's 12:06:34 her email address and so if you have any trouble 12:06:38 with CEUs or need a certificate of attendance, let 12:06:45 us know. So you can email Nikol directly. 12:06:47 >> NIKOL PRIETO: Hey, written, I got a comment 12:06:49 that you need to speak up a little bit louder. 12:06:51 >> BRIAN NORTON: I will try to do that. I'll try 12:06:55 to turn my microphone up a little bit. 12:06:59 Excellent. So we will see you back. People back 12:07:02 here at 12:45. 12:45:36 list. 12:45:38 >> BRIAN NORTON: All right. It's 12:45. We have 12:45:41 two more sections to go through. We have Anna and 12:45:44 Jim. They both work on our clinical assistive 12:45:48 technology team. And I believe Anna is going to 12:45:52 start us out. Sole, Anna,, are you here? 12:45:54 >>ANNA LEUNG: : Yes. 12:45:56 >> BRIAN NORTON: Imgeeg to stop share and let you 12:45:58 do. 12:45:59 >>ANNA LEUNG: : Let's see if it works. 12:46:07 >> BRIAN NORTON: Cross our fingers 12:46:25 >>ANNA LEUNG: : Okay. 12:46:27 >> BRIAN NORTON: Take it away, Anna. 12:46:30 >>ANNA LEUNG: : All right. Hello, my name is 12:46:35 Anna Leung, I am assistive technology specialist. 12:46:37 My disclosure here. I have no relevant financial 12:46:39 and nonfinancial relationship to disclose other 12:46:45 than being an employee of Easterseals Crossroads. 12:46:49 Here are my learning objectives. And today I'm 12:46:56 going to talk about some apps related to living. 12:46:58 And it is a very broad topic. There are so many 12:47:01 apps out there that can help us to live. Depends 12:47:03 upon how you want to live your life. So it's 12:47:05 going to be a little bit different from the 12:47:09 previous two sessions. So bear with us and hope 12:47:12 this will give you a different spin of the 12:47:14 session. 12:47:22 First, all, it's important to prepare for 12:47:25 emergencies. So one of the learning objectives is 12:47:30 to help to tbid you to set up, emergency services, 12:47:34 notify emergency contacts. And also to let the 12:47:38 emergency services, the doctors or any family 12:47:41 members you care about know your situation, such 12:47:45 as your allergies, medications, procedures. And 12:47:47 this piece of information is particularly 12:47:50 important and useful if you are in an emergency 12:47:53 situation. 12:47:56 Because we're living in a time that no one can 12:47:58 predict what's going to happen, this is very 12:48:02 important that everyone should set all that kind 12:48:06 of information up on the phone. For the tablet or 12:48:10 whatever ways you want to do. 12:48:15 And since there is so much going on right now and 12:48:22 there are a lot of negative news, a lot of people 12:48:24 start to feel anxiety. I don't know about you, 12:48:28 but I started to feel it just a few months ago 12:48:32 whenever one was telling me "oh, something is 12:48:33 happening." 12:48:36 So I hope that we can talk about something how to 12:48:39 handle stress and anxiety with a balance of 12:48:43 meditation, sleep and exercise. If you're not 12:48:47 going to sleep while I talk, I hope not. And if 12:48:49 we have some more time, we'll explore some other 12:48:53 methods to maintain our mental agility and 12:48:55 well-being. 12:49:02 So, the first feature is more like a feature 12:49:05 rather than an app. It's called emergency SOS. 12:49:11 It is a built-in feature by Apple. So a little 12:49:16 bit later on, I will talk a little bit Android. 12:49:21 This feature Emergency SOS is suitable for 12:49:25 operating system 10.2 and later. And it allows 12:49:28 iPhone users to get help when they are in an 12:49:29 emergency. 12:49:32 Now, when I say iPhone users, it means that you 12:49:36 cannot use it in an iPad. If you use an iPhone, 12:49:40 you can also use it in an Iwatch. 12:49:46 Okay. And so there's an iWatch app support and 12:49:51 you can also use it as a widget. So well talk 12:49:53 about how to set it up. 12:49:57 It's very simple. And these are two main points. 12:50:00 There are two different ways to do it. Press the 12:50:06 power button five times rapidly. Or you hold the 12:50:10 side ones. Then an emergency slider will show up. 12:50:13 Now, let me just go into a little bit of details 12:50:14 how that works. 12:50:18 So, mainly when you press and hold the side 12:50:22 buttons and one of the volume buttons emergency 12:50:24 SOS slider appears, you want to drag the emergency 12:50:31 SOS slider to call the emergency services. 12:50:34 If you continue to hold down the side button and 12:50:37 volume button, then a countdown begins and an 12:50:44 alert sounds because when you are in an 12:50:46 emergency situation might not be able to drag the 12:50:47 slider. 12:50:50 If you hold it until the countdown ends, then your 12:50:53 iPhone automatically calls emergency services. 12:50:56 Now, these steps are applicable when you use an 12:50:59 iPhone 8 or later. 12:51:04 Now, if you have an iPhone 7 or earlier version, 12:51:07 it's likely that you will need to deal with the 12:51:11 emergency SOS slider. So it's not like you can 12:51:14 press and hold the side buttons. 12:51:17 And also, if you are in a different country, you 12:51:19 might have a different way to do it. For example, 12:51:22 if you're in India, you only need to press the 12:51:26 button three times instead of five times. 12:51:31 And you might need to put in your iPhone -- sorry, 12:51:34 your emergency services, like if you use it in 12:51:37 America, you don't have to say "hey, let's call 12:51:44 911." but in India, you do have to put -- to 12:51:46 designate your emergency services. 12:51:54 So, with the iPhone 7, then you have to work with 12:51:57 a slider. But there is the alternative and I will 12:51:58 address that in a minute. 12:52:01 So after the call ends, your iPhone sends your 12:52:04 emergency contacts a text message with your 12:52:09 current location unless you choose to cancel. 12:52:12 Now, someone will ask: Do you need to turn on 12:52:15 location services? I personally don't turn on my 12:52:19 location services for all the apps in general. I 12:52:22 don't want it to be tracked or whatever. So in 12:52:26 that situation, if location services is off, it 12:52:33 will temporarily turn on when you are in an 12:52:37 emergency situation. If your location changes, 12:52:39 then your contacts will get an update and you will 12:52:45 get a notification about 10 minutes later. 12:52:46 Next slide. 12:52:51 Here's a slide showing the iPhone, sorry, the 12:52:55 iWatch, how it's going to work. So let's say when 12:53:02 it calls, then 911 l show up on the iWatch and it 12:53:06 will ask do you want to end call? Are you sure? 12:53:08 And there is countdown sound to alert you that 12:53:12 you're calling them. You don't want to deal with 12:53:19 the emergency slider. You can go to your setting. 12:53:21 Let me go to the next slide quickly and we'll have 12:53:28 to come back to the slide. You can go, I'm sorry. 12:53:29 There you go. 12:53:31 So this is a picture of an iPhone. There is a 12:53:34 button called auto call. So if you don't want to 12:53:36 deal with the slider once you hold onto the 12:53:39 buttons, then it will just automatically call the 12:53:47 emergency services. 12:53:49 So what is the difference between emergency 12:53:54 contacts versus emergency services? So emergency 12:53:57 services mainly just to call 911. But in addition 12:54:02 to calling emergency services, you can also choose 12:54:08 to contact your emergency contact, sorry. So like 12:54:12 your family members, your loved ones that you also 12:54:15 want them to know that you are in an emergency 12:54:16 situation. 12:54:24 With the newer Watch, it has iWatch, it has a full 12:54:27 detection feature, which is really cool. What it 12:54:33 does is that when you wear your watch and then you 12:54:36 walk around and then all of a sudden you might 12:54:39 have a disease, you fall down, it senses the fall 12:54:44 automatically. And I believe after a few seconds, 12:54:48 it will show up a message asking you "it locks 12:54:51 like you have taken a hard fall. If you are 12:54:54 unconscious or if you just don't respond, it will 12:54:57 just call emergency services right away. 12:55:01 But you have some time to respond, as well. You 12:55:05 might just say actually you didn't fall. You are 12:55:08 just playing games with your dogs or with your 12:55:12 kids and then all of a sudden the watch senses 12:55:17 that you have a very quick change in the movement. 12:55:19 So it might sense something like that, but you can 12:55:22 address that you did not fall. 12:55:26 Or you don't want the contact emergency services, 12:55:28 you can still select the button: Yes, I fell but 12:55:33 I'm okay. Don't call emergency services. 12:55:42 So that is a very useful feature especially for 12:55:43 people who have certain diseases. 12:55:49 And here is setup for Android. For Android 12:55:53 phones, it varies because there's so many 12:55:56 different brands and models of smartphones, 12:56:00 Android phones out there. So be sure to check 12:56:04 instructions. Pretty much all the smartphones 12:56:07 have a settings app. So you want to look in the 12:56:11 settings and look into privacy and safety. And 12:56:16 then you can send SOS, you can choose to send 12:56:18 SOS messages to your emergency contacts. 12:56:22 You can also send pictures of your situation or 12:56:27 the environment so that you can tell people where 12:56:32 you are. You can record an audio recording so 12:56:36 definitely these are very useful features. 12:56:43 And so you might wonder, okay, so how should we 12:56:48 put in the emergency contact so that brings me to 12:56:51 the next app. 12:56:59 Just go to the next one. 12:57:04 The next app is called health app. It's a native 12:57:08 app built into your iPhone, as well. So once 12:57:15 again, it's iPhone app. And it's not an iPad app. 12:57:21 So you have to run iOS 10.2 or later in the iPhone 12:57:25 in order to find this app. And mainly what it 12:57:28 does, it gathers all the health data to help you 12:57:32 monitor your progress. You can also find this app 12:57:41 in your iWatch. There's a widget support. And 12:57:44 it's important that you have an app to put down 12:57:48 your essentials, especially when you are in an 12:57:51 emergency situation, you want to let the other 12:57:55 people know your allergies. So let me just go the 12:58:04 next slide. To jot down this list of information. 12:58:07 So mainly you need to create a medical ID. So you 12:58:10 need to put down the date of birthed, your medical 12:58:15 conditions, medical notes such as like on this 12:58:17 screen is saying okay, in case of emergency, 12:58:20 please call this person. But you can also have a 12:58:23 different section to put down your emergency 12:58:28 contacts. 12:58:34 And also good for you to put in maybe any implants 12:58:38 in your body or any other foreign parts in your 12:58:41 body you want your emergency services to know. 12:58:46 You want them to know whether you are allergic to 12:58:53 maybe latex gloves or anything else that you don't 12:58:56 react well. It's good to put in you're allergic 12:58:59 to peanuts and other things. Put in what kind of 12:59:03 medications you have been taking. And also your 12:59:08 blood type, your weight and height and all that 12:59:10 information. You can choose whether you want to 12:59:13 share this medical ID when calling emergency 12:59:14 services. 12:59:19 So, if you have some other people you care about, 12:59:22 you might want to advise them to share that 12:59:25 information. 12:59:29 Why do we even have to put our 12:59:33 height and weight? Well, it leads to the next 12:59:38 issue is that the strength of this app is that it 12:59:45 helps you track your physical activities. 12:59:48 So this, because you put down all that 12:59:52 information, so let's say you're of certain age. 12:59:57 You weigh certain grams or whatever and how tall 13:00:03 you are, that can help the app to calculate your 13:00:07 maybe calories burned when you run or walk or long 13:00:11 distance and all that. So this is an app which 13:00:18 also tracks your activities to measure whether 13:00:21 you're living a helly life. For example, you set 13:00:25 up a goal to lose weight and then you can use this 13:00:27 app to keep track of it. And later on I will talk 13:00:33 about some other apps that can help you reach your 13:00:37 goals like that. But for this app, mainly is all 13:00:41 health-related. Health is a very broad term. So 13:00:47 you can put all your information here to give you 13:00:49 a visual presentation about how far you have gone 13:00:54 so far. Like your energy level, your -- how many 13:00:58 hours you have been standing up. And once you 13:01:01 reach certain hours, you need a reminder to sit 13:01:05 down or to do something to rotator activities. 13:01:08 So based on all the information you enter in your 13:01:12 personal profile, it just presents all this 13:01:15 information for you. 13:01:24 And this health app, it's very integrated with 13:01:29 some other apps such as my chart app. A lot of 13:01:32 doctors these days use my chart to put their 13:01:35 findings of your health, maybe put in records of 13:01:40 when's the last time you actually see a doctor? 13:01:44 When's the last time you had this blood test or 13:01:47 that blood test. So you can use my chart app to 13:01:48 check it. 13:01:53 Now, the health app sec Ronizes with this my chart 13:01:54 app -- synchronizes. 13:01:58 It also with major health clinics like Mayo 13:02:03 Clinic, Florida health system, Medi save, et 13:02:07 cetera. So if you five permission to them, your 13:02:13 doctors could retrieve your data through this app. 13:02:17 The Android version would be Google Fit. Google 13:02:20 Fit is an app that would track very similar. And 13:02:25 some people even are using like fit bit. So fit 13:02:28 bit is a wristband that will also track your 13:02:35 activities. So that is the health app. 13:02:41 So I will not demonstrate the emergency 13:02:43 SOS feature and also health app is more like an 13:02:47 iPhone, so right now I'm using the iPad do my 13:02:49 presentation. So if you have any questions, feel 13:02:53 free to ask me later or you can put your questions 13:02:55 in the Q & A. 13:03:00 So the next app I want to talk about is more like 13:03:06 for our mental health. It's called headspace. 13:03:09 Like I said at the beginning, we are in a very 13:03:15 difficult time. There is a lot of anxiety. A lot 13:03:21 of negative news out there and just people 13:03:24 themselves. And they need, some people, not 13:03:26 necessarily everyone, but some people need an app 13:03:32 to help them to balance themselves. And this app 13:03:37 is called Headspace app. And you can find it in 13:03:41 the iOS environment. You can I don't it in iPad. 13:03:45 You can I don't it in Android machines. And 13:03:49 mainly it provides free therapy or tutorial 13:03:53 sessions to focus on free major activities. 13:03:58 Meditate. Sleep. And move. 13:04:02 Like, I know how to breathe. I sleep and all 13:04:06 that. But some people just cannot sleep anymore 13:04:09 because they have so many thoughts in their head. 13:04:12 They just cannot have a clear mind to focus on 13:04:16 their work or school. So some people might need 13:04:20 these sessions. And there is a paid version for 13:04:25 that. But let's go over the free version first. 13:04:29 The free version you need to set up an account to 13:04:36 start it. So let me just give you a quick summary 13:04:40 about the features involved and I'll demonstrate 13:04:44 that. Mainly it has guided meditation. Now 13:04:49 people, like I said, why do need to meditate? A 13:04:52 lot of people have mental health. And I guess 13:04:56 these days I would say everyone has some sort of 13:05:01 mental health issues. And they let their mind, 13:05:04 thoughts going in and out of their head and that 13:05:08 really affects one's productivity and focus. 13:05:11 So, a lot of people need someone to tell them what 13:05:17 to do sometimes. So this app has guided 13:05:19 meditation with a voice. So you can choose 13:05:23 whether you want a guy voice, a female voice. You 13:05:27 can choose to listen to it just for three minutes 13:05:30 at a time or even have a whole hour to listen to 13:05:38 it. Mainly it targets people who have stress and 13:05:46 anxiety. So, let's just quickly jump to an app. 13:05:54 There we go. 13:05:57 And this is a very pretty graphic and it's all 13:06:00 blue right now, but I'm going to switch to a 13:06:01 different channel. 13:06:03 At the bottom, you'll find that there are four 13:06:08 buttons. So I'm going to switch to today first. 13:06:12 So every day they put a video to give you a visual 13:06:18 image about what it means to relax, to have fresh 13:06:22 air, to stay positive. And then you can scroll 13:06:25 down to look at your history. You can check it 13:06:32 out. And you can also read community story. And 13:06:35 then focus is the button next to today is called 13:06:42 meditate. So meditate it means that there are 13:06:45 therapy sessions or tutorial sessions to help you 13:06:50 to have destress, maybe find your self-esteem, 13:06:57 like this main screen is showing, and also let's 13:07:00 see, as you go a little further down, it suggests 13:07:05 you different things to meditate. So you have a 13:07:09 lot of courses you can join. 13:07:12 And if I go back up and right on the self-esteem, 13:07:15 there is a lock symbol in the blue button. It 13:07:17 means that if you I don't a free version you 13:07:20 cannot access it. But if you pay like a 13:07:23 subscription, and I'll talk a little bit about the 13:07:26 prices later, then you can open up a lot more 13:07:26 activities. 13:07:30 And I'm going to just go ahead and just play the 13:07:35 voice of this person. It's very calming. But I'm 13:07:38 not going to play the whole time. But I just want 13:07:42 to give you a taste of how it's going to sound. 13:07:45 So let's say I will go in the stressed session. 13:07:50 And then I'm going to choose the female voice. 13:07:54 Because this app is not based in America, you will 13:07:57 find that it's a different voice. But it is very 13:08:00 clear, calming voice. I'm going to hit the begin 13:08:01 button. 13:08:05 Now, the bottom will just give you a few seconds; 13:08:07 okay? 13:08:11 And I'm going to choose three minutes. 13:08:16 >> Hi, and welcome to this guided exercise. So, 13:08:19 stress can cover so many different things whether 13:08:26 it's sadness, frustration anxiety, even 13:08:28 irittability. So this exercise is about being 13:08:31 better able to notice what it is that's really 13:08:34 occupying the mind. What it is that's extending 13:08:37 the life of these emotions and learning how to 13:08:41 step out of them and to find a greater sense of 13:08:45 peace in both the body and the mind. Ann I'm 13:08:50 going to Paul's it. Notice there's a cirquele in 13:08:54 the middle and it's moving. It's not like it's 13:08:58 all still image. It just kind of symbolizes your 13:09:03 mind, your breathing and going in and out. And of 13:09:06 course there's some other courses that will help 13:09:09 you learn how to breathe. 13:09:12 And like I said, don't take it for granted. Some 13:09:16 people just don't know how to relax and slow down 13:09:19 and really focus on breathing and all that. 13:09:23 So, that's the meditation. 13:09:27 So if I hit the upper left arrow to go back to my 13:09:31 list, and then if I hit the sleep button at the 13:09:39 bottom, many people have trouble sleeping. I did 13:09:42 have trouble sleeping last few nights because our 13:09:45 AC probing, so I couldn't really handle the 13:09:48 humidity and the hot weather. But if you're 13:09:51 sleeping in a comfortable environment, or even if 13:09:54 you are in a very difficult environment to sleep, 13:09:59 try out one of these courses. It's free. 13:10:06 So, let's see if I scroll down, we can find, you 13:10:11 can listen to different sounds of nature, of the 13:10:15 rain, of the wind, of music and all those things 13:10:18 can actually put you to sleep. So I will not play 13:10:20 them right now because I don't want you to sleep 13:10:22 right now. 13:10:26 So now I will go to the channel on the right is 13:10:27 called the move. 13:10:33 So, it's not just about sleeping or meditation. 13:10:35 You need to keep yourself active, too. But you 13:10:40 say, okay, everyone is locked in indoors. What am 13:10:44 I going to do? How am I going to stay active? 13:10:46 Yes, you can exercise indoor. 13:10:51 So these are some videos to show you how to do 13:10:55 certain physical activities to destress, to 13:11:01 refrain your anxiety. 13:11:04 And there are different levels that you can try. 13:11:09 You can try something quick just to do some quick 13:11:14 workouts on the arms or your neck, especially if 13:11:17 you sit in front of computer all day long, you 13:11:21 need that kind of break. 13:11:26 And but just keep in mind some of these courses 13:11:30 could be half hour long or 20 minutes. So it 13:11:34 depends on what you can handle at different times 13:11:37 of the day. 13:11:42 So let me just quickly open up stress 13:11:47 release. It gives you some, a very short summary 13:11:52 of what you need to get, like equipment, a foam 13:11:55 roller like that and whether the intensity level 13:11:58 is gentle or not. So that you know whether you're 13:12:01 ready for it. And of course they have something a 13:12:04 little bit more advanced. So it's just like 13:12:07 watching TV, watch a video, you follow it and 13:12:10 hopefully when you do it, your other family 13:12:12 members will follow suit. So the whole family can 13:12:16 do it together. It will be a lot of fun and then 13:12:20 you can laugh at each other's silly movements; 13:12:21 right? 13:12:27 So, this is the Headspace app. 13:12:33 So we will go back to my slides and show, I don't 13:12:36 want everyone put to sleep. So hold on a second. 13:12:37 Here we go. 13:12:40 Okay. 13:12:44 So, the next slide, I like this app because it has 13:12:48 beautiful, very cute graphics. A lot of them are 13:12:51 very effective just to make you feel like oh, it's 13:12:54 not too bad after all. And it comes with like 13:12:59 some background sound effect to create a song for 13:13:02 you to sing in. It has several levels for you to 13:13:05 advance. So if you get to level 0 or something 13:13:08 like that -- 10. Then you feel like you have a 13:13:13 sense of achievement. And it has a huge library. 13:13:15 You can access many, many courses. 13:13:21 And I tested this app with voiceover and some talk 13:13:23 back. And it's reasonable approximately 13:13:28 accessible. Not 100 percent because it has 13:13:30 graphics and all that. But it's certainly better 13:13:34 than a lot of apps out there. 13:13:38 Now, if you feel that this is going to work for 13:13:41 you and you want to use it and explore some more 13:13:46 different courses, you can do a subscription. 13:13:52 Mainly it gives you a lot more levels to learn, to 13:13:57 practice. And the prices for the subscriptions, 13:14:02 you can subscribe for the entire year for 70 13:14:05 bucks. And you have the first 40 days free. Or 13:14:08 if you just want to do month by month, you can pay 13:14:12 $13 a month with the first seven days free. 13:14:18 So that's the Headspace plus version. 13:14:24 So enough about the Headspace. And I guess you 13:14:27 guys are ready to think about, okay, other than 13:14:38 sleep meditate, move around. I have some 13:14:41 interest, I want to use this time like I am 13:14:44 working indoors most of the time, working from 13:14:46 home most of the time, I have some other interest. 13:14:48 Maybe I start to notice that something wrong with 13:14:53 my house. And I really need to fix the garage. 13:15:00 Oh, I really need to fix the laundry machines and 13:15:04 all that. So there is an app that can help you to 13:15:12 keep track of these projects. It's called iHour: 13:15:14 Habit and skill tracker app by Clover. 13:15:24 So it is an app raibl on iOS and Android. It is 13:15:28 an iPhone app but I know I can I don't it on the 13:15:32 Android, as well. It is a task planner, daily 13:15:35 tracker and also comes with some statistics for 13:15:40 you to visualize your progress. 13:15:45 And it has a lot of pretty icons so that people 13:15:48 who don't want to put a lot of text, they just 13:15:52 want to visualize that project, they can just put 13:15:56 in the icon. 13:16:01 So here is one of the screen prints. And it lets 13:16:04 you put in different activities. And all these 13:16:07 projects or activities or skills that you want to 13:16:12 learn takes time. So you need to have something 13:16:16 to get yourself back on track sometimes. Let's 13:16:19 say when you are in the middle of doing your work 13:16:21 and you might have spent your whole day and 13:16:24 realized oh, you forgot about your projects. So 13:16:29 this will help you to put in reminder. Hey, it's 13:16:31 time to go back to that project so that you can 13:16:35 finish that project by certain, certain date, 13:16:38 certain, certain time. 13:16:42 So you can also use it as a stopwatch. So let's 13:16:49 say you can only afford to spend 10 minutes a day. 13:16:52 But you still want to commit 10 minutes a day. 13:16:55 You can I don't it as time watch so that if you 13:16:58 want to spend 10 minutes on it, it will give you 13:17:00 an alert to say okay, you can stop and do some 13:17:02 other activities. And you can share with your 13:17:05 families and friends. Very I don't remember 13:17:10 friendly -- user friendly. Very easy to I don't. 13:17:13 I'm going to quickly jump into it. 13:17:19 And so let's say I need to reorganize the garage. 13:17:21 So I'm going to press the button in the middle, 13:17:28 press to add. And then type in garage. 13:17:36 And then in the middle, I have a slot saying okay, 13:17:38 do I want to plan to do this every day or every 13:17:40 week? 13:17:44 And if I don't do anything, that just means that I 13:17:47 want to table this project on my list. I can 13:17:51 leave it plan every day, no plan. But if you 13:17:54 really want the garage to be more organized, then 13:17:57 you want to select a time. So let's say I want to 13:18:01 do it maybe half hour a day. So I will change it 13:18:05 to 30 minutes. And then I will scroll down. 13:18:10 Sorry. I can turn on the reminder. And you can 13:18:17 tap to add more remind times later. And then 13:18:20 icons. Let's see whether we have any pretty 13:18:24 icons. There are many, many icons. So for 13:18:29 garage, let's say I'm going to choose a range. 13:18:31 Then I would type on the checkmark at the upper 13:18:33 right corner to save it. 13:18:38 So, once I put it in, so I'm going to add one more 13:18:41 just to help you see the other project how it's 13:18:46 going to show. So let's say I need to 13:18:51 walk my 13:18:52 dog. 13:18:56 I'm going to put this in. And I plan to do 13:19:01 it every day for 15 minutes. Put a reminder. Put 13:19:03 the icon. Tap on the checkmark. So here there 13:19:06 are two activities. So let's say I will start the 13:19:09 garage. Okay, finally I want to do something. I 13:19:12 will start. So I will tap on that. And it gives 13:19:17 me more options how I want to lock my activity. 13:19:21 So once I lock my activities, I hit the add button 13:19:26 then I can say yes, I do it for 30 minutes. 13:19:33 It adds a record for me that I have done that. 13:19:36 And so I'm going to go back. Then it shows that I 13:19:41 have done 0.5 hours. So I can do that every day, 13:19:46 come back to this app to put in my time. And I 13:20:00 can swipe this. So I can also view whether I have 13:20:05 accomplished this project for 19 days or a month 13:20:08 or six months and see how it goes. And then if I 13:20:10 want to see my progress, there's some charts to 13:20:14 show. And then I can visualize. Of course I 13:20:18 don't have weekly hours yet or monthly hours. But 13:20:22 able to track how it looks later on when I put in 13:20:27 my project. Let's say I am tired and sick of 13:20:30 doing this garage project. I want to delegate 13:20:36 that to my husband. I can say I can take this 13:20:39 project off my list. I can hit the pause project. 13:20:43 I can either pause or delete project. So if I 13:20:47 delete project, you hit delete again, then it will 13:20:55 be off my list. So that's the iHour projects. I 13:21:03 like it. Very simple interface. No gimmicks. 13:21:06 So if you find this is not the interface I like, 13:21:10 there's the alternative app called streaks app by 13:21:14 crunchy bagel. Just a very interesting app 13:21:18 developer's name. And so this one costs money 13:21:25 because you can limit your tasks 12 on a day. It 13:21:27 will alert you automatically whether you have 13:21:30 completed the task. You can designate the 13:21:33 timeline a lot better. And it's linked to the 13:21:36 health app. So let's say if you're adding some 13:21:41 physical activities that you want your health app 13:21:45 to collect, as well, you can have it linked to 13:21:48 your health app. 13:21:51 I like this because it has a lot of customized 13:21:56 icons. And like if you are on a wheelchair and 13:22:00 you can exercise your upper body, your arms in so 13:22:03 many different ways so you can set up a goal like 13:22:08 I want to row 3.8 miles every day or 12 hours. 13:22:12 And so you can choose those icons to put it on 13:22:15 your list of activities you want to do. 13:22:20 It has a very, very detailed list of exercises you 13:22:25 can do the 1 of them. And you can be selective 13:22:27 about certain exercises you want to do. Say you 13:22:31 sprain your ankle and you don't want to do 13:22:34 anything with the lower extremities, you can 13:22:36 select some other exercises that can focus on the 13:22:39 upper extremities and you can pick and choose from 13:22:40 this list. 13:22:46 So this is called the Streaks April by Crunchy 13:22:51 bagel. 13:22:55 So now I'm going go to the next app. 13:23:01 It's difficult not to talk about an app when 13:23:06 you're indoors so much. But here's an app that is 13:23:11 called the Stimart scarlet app. And you can I 13:23:18 don't it in the iOS, find it in iOS, iPad, 13:23:23 Android. Mainly Android is scarlet adapted rain 13:23:28 game. So it gives you an array of games. It 13:23:31 challenges every aspect of your memory. 13:23:36 So, you can have free access to 13 games. It has 13:23:39 a paid version. Then you can definitely play a 13:23:40 lot more. 13:23:43 It was originally designed for older adults and 13:23:46 seniors to help stimulate cognitive abilities. 13:23:49 But it can also be used for people who have 13:23:53 traumatic brain injury. 13:23:59 Here are the names of the games and I'll 13:24:07 demonstrate quickly in one slide, PowerPoint slide 13:24:10 holded in our website and you can access this 13:24:11 list. 13:24:17 So, just quickly demonstrate one of the games that 13:24:20 I find pretty interesting. Here you go. When you 13:24:24 first open this app you can either subscribe or 13:24:29 just hit the button visit Stim' Art. 13:24:32 Then you can put your profile. And then you can 13:24:35 name yourself anything you want and you can change 13:24:39 your profile. But right now I didn't really log 13:24:40 in. 13:24:44 So here's a list of gaems you just swipe your 13:24:48 finger. Then you can see that you have actually 13:24:55 actually more than 13 games to lure you to 13:24:59 subscribe. Here are the games you can try. 13:25:03 Like a bubble game. Like the first one, it trains 13:25:09 someone the eye-hands coordination. Eye-fingers 13:25:11 coordination, whatever you call it. Then if I hit 13:25:16 play, and I can choose my profile, I can just say 13:25:20 Fried Brain. Click done and then hit continue. 13:25:23 And hit play fen. 13:25:27 And it gives you very easy levels to choose from. 13:25:32 So for me let's say I'm going to choose medium. 13:25:37 And it gives you intrukses in very clearly just 13:25:42 two steps. You hit play. So mainly you have to 13:25:48 connect these bubbles by the number order. So 1, 13:25:53 2, 3, 4, 5. So it really friends how much you can 13:25:58 see on the screen. And then you connect them. 13:26:00 I know some people will find it boring. They want 13:26:04 to move on. It's okay. You can just tap on the 13:26:08 X button at the upper left corner to say this is 13:26:10 not for me. 13:26:13 Of and then it will ask you do you want to quit 13:26:14 the game and you say yes. 13:26:19 Then it can also assess your happiness of the day. 13:26:24 So you can just log in your day. You can say 13:26:30 bored. 13:26:34 And there's some other games. Also trains one's 13:26:38 memory. And I think if you choose the difficulty 13:26:45 level, it could be chal challenge. Like some of 13:26:47 them, that is challenge because I don't 13:26:50 necessarily know history of everyone. It asks 13:26:53 about culture, geography and all that. But for 13:26:58 some people who are very nerdy and who's very 13:27:03 well-learned, they might enjoy this quiz game. So 13:27:06 let's say if I hit play and then I'll hit easy and 13:27:10 then it fisms you a list of instructions and then 13:27:14 you tap on the correct answer and it will reveal 13:27:17 part of the picture. And then you have to guess 13:27:21 the name of that picture. So it connects your 13:27:24 artsy side and also your knowledge side. 13:27:28 So let's say I'm going to do paintings. And then 13:27:31 it has all kinds of categories. And then let's 13:27:35 say I hit culture. I don't necessarily know the 13:27:38 answer of this one. I'm going guess which was the 13:27:47 first 24-hour television channel. I may get the 13:27:50 wrong answer. Let's say I'll hit CNN. Oh, cool, 13:27:53 it's correct. So let's say I hit the right rare 13:27:58 oh to reveal. You can see part of a picture of a 13:28:00 much bigger painting it will review. You can hit 13:28:03 the question mark at the upper right hand corner 13:28:06 to guess the name of that picture. Of course 13:28:09 right now I cannot do anything. I just don't 13:28:10 know. 13:28:13 So let's say I am just going to hit creation of 13:28:17 Adam and hit confirm. And if it's wrong then you 13:28:18 have to keep playing. 13:28:21 So to people might say no, I don't want this. So 13:28:26 we can hit the X button to go back and it will ask 13:28:27 you again to quit the game. 13:28:30 So because there are so many gaems there must be 13:28:37 one that you like. Like bouncing ball is really 13:28:40 like playing tennis. You can play with one more 13:28:43 player or just play it with the computer wthe 13:28:45 iPad. 13:28:52 So that is the brain game. 13:28:57 Just go back to the PowerPoint slide. 13:29:05 And it has -- this is a diagram just to show you 13:29:08 how it's based on research. Someone maying this 13:29:12 game for like half hour a day, for certain number 13:29:18 of gaems, their cognitive ability has improved by 13:29:21 70 percent, something like that. And at the lower 13:29:26 right corner you can see that there is a source, 13:29:31 back up this data. And it's called adoption and I 13:29:36 don't of mobile health in older adults for 13:29:40 cognitive stimulation. So on, so forth. 13:29:44 The last app I'm going to quickly talk about is 13:29:48 called the Rivet Radio app. You would say well, 13:29:55 Anna, you say there's so many negative news, why 13:29:57 are we listening to them anymore? Well, there are 13:29:59 some positive stories, there are some news stories 13:30:02 that are of categories that you might be 13:30:08 interested in. So this app will let you customize 13:30:11 the kind of stories you want to listen to. And it 13:30:16 has -- it is just a radio app. 13:30:19 And here's the 13:30:22 screen print of the app. It's very easy, very 13:30:26 huge font with a title in the middle. And there's 13:30:32 a pause button, play and pause. And you can 13:30:35 follow certain topics. You can follow certain 13:30:40 show hosts or producers. You can also share these 13:30:44 stories with your families and friends. So it's 13:30:47 very interactive. 13:30:52 And here's how the section to 13:30:55 show how you can check certain categories that you 13:30:59 like. So Let's say all those business news, 13:31:06 government and politics or sport news, which is 13:31:09 not existing very much these days, you don't want 13:31:13 to hear those, uncheck them, and just focus on 13:31:16 like art and entertainment, technology, science, 13:31:20 lifestyle and all the news that you want to listen 13:31:26 to. So it's very easy to use. 13:31:31 So now I'm going to go to my last slide. So thank 13:31:34 you so much for your time. Please be sure to 13:31:37 check out our website. We have a lot of tech 13:31:42 tips, news stories, Assistive Technology Updates 13:31:50 and podcasts and other frequently asked questions 13:31:53 and a minute long Assistive Technology Update, all 13:31:57 those podcasts. And the next set of fun apps will 13:32:03 be presented by my co-worker, James Rinehart. 13:32:05 >> BRIAN NORTON: Excellent, thank you, Anna, that 13:32:08 was awesome. And I'll just see if Jim is here. 13:32:09 Jim, are you here? 13:32:11 >>JIM RINEHART: : I am here. 13:32:14 >> BRIAN NORTON: Great. I can hear you. So now 13:32:16 you should be able to share your screen. 13:32:55 >>JIM RINEHART: : We'll go from here. Okay. 13:32:59 Anyway, so thanks, Anna, for all the great 13:33:03 information and especially the tips on all the 13:33:07 apps to help keep us healthy. So, what I am 13:33:10 hopeful to do in the next little bit is just kind 13:33:15 of talk through a few different apps also dealing 13:33:17 with living. So I'll start off by introducing 13:33:21 myself. My name's Jim Rinehart. I also work here 13:33:28 Easterseals Crossroads as assistive technology 13:33:31 specialist. I work with primarily the folks who 13:33:33 are either blind or significantly visually 13:33:36 impaired. I joined Easterseals Crossroads in 13:33:41 April of 2014. And like probably the other 13:33:46 presenters today, I, too, have no financial or 13:33:48 nonfinancial relationship in anything that I'm 13:33:50 going to show you. 13:33:57 I want to talk a little bit about apps for living. 13:34:00 I'm going to go a couple different places today. 13:34:06 One is just apps for keeping us organized. We 13:34:08 talked a little bit about that. Lisa did this 13:34:11 morning in relationship kind of going to school 13:34:14 and classes. I'm going to probably talk about a 13:34:17 couple different apps that also accomplish that 13:34:23 organizational piece. But just in a more general 13:34:25 sense. And also apps for cooking. We all like to 13:34:28 eat. We're here. It's Friday afternoon about 13:34:32 about 1:35 in the afternoon. And we'll be heading 13:34:35 towards the weekend here really shortly. So some 13:34:37 of you may be looking for some ways to find some 13:34:41 recipe ideas. And we're going to talk a little 13:34:45 bit about that, as well. 13:34:46 Because so much us are creative, some of us might 13:34:50 be a little bit more culinary challenged. 13:34:54 So the first thing I want to look at is kind of 13:34:59 apps for keeping us organized. And one of the 13:35:03 things we want to do is keep track of stuff. And 13:35:06 I found this website when I was putting this 13:35:09 together that I definitely wanted to show as a way 13:35:16 to help us to maybe evaluate all the apps that are 13:35:18 out there. As Brian said this morning, there are 13:35:20 thousands and thousands of apps. So I wanted to 13:35:25 kind of show this. And give you a resource that 13:35:33 you can use to perhaps 13:35:45 there we go. 13:35:59 Okay. I'm going to stop my share for a second. 13:36:29 I apologize for that. Here we go. 13:36:35 So here's the web page. Appypie. So this is the 13:36:38 rest of the 7 best calendar apps for Android and 13:36:41 iOS. And I'm just going to kind of scroll down 13:36:43 through this. It kind of gives you an idea of 13:36:49 some of the reasons why we use the calendar apps. 13:36:52 We have deadlines, we have all those things that 13:36:55 bring stress source, time stressors into our lives 13:36:58 that some of the apps that Anna just showed us 13:37:00 will help us relieve some of that. 13:37:04 But, I'm going to come down and scroll down here. 13:37:07 And there is a really great section in this about 13:37:11 criteria for choosing the best calendar apps. 13:37:13 And there's a couple of things in here. 13:37:22 There's this really nice piece that talks about 13:37:24 all the pieces around it that are designed to help 13:37:27 you kind of evaluate an app when you're looking at 13:37:32 it and decide whether or not it's the app for you. 13:37:37 Simple to share. Easy to use. Designed with 13:37:40 intention. Means there's really a particular 13:37:44 purpose for it. And also in some cases available 13:37:46 in multiple apps. 13:37:49 But this goes down through here. And it gives a 13:37:55 little bit of a narrative, as well, as to what 13:37:58 each of those means. So I just want to take a 13:38:01 moment. I will just scroll through this slowly 13:38:07 for you so you can kind of see what's there. And 13:38:10 there's that designed for intention piece that 13:38:16 when I first discovered it, to find that. 13:38:20 And then down below that are the publishers of 13:38:26 those websites estimations of what these top 7 13:38:31 calendar apps are for both Android and iOS. 13:38:34 So I'm going to exit this now. 13:38:39 And bring us back to my PowerPoint. 13:38:45 So, the first app I want to talk about is a little 13:39:01 bit is the apple calendar. Available on iOS. But 13:39:05 if you are using the Android platform, there is a 13:39:08 similar kind of calendar that's going to be built 13:39:10 into that. 13:39:14 This app also, the Apple Calendar works real well 13:39:20 if you're a voiceover user and you can also I 13:39:27 don't Siri to create appointments, as well with 13:39:29 this. That's why I'll show you a demonstration 13:39:31 here in a few minutes. 13:39:37 The second kind of calendar app I'm going to 13:39:40 demonstrate in a few minutes is cozy. This is 13:39:46 available both iOS and Android. There is a free 13:39:49 version of this that allows you to do part of the 13:39:52 functions. But there's also a paid version that 13:39:57 kind of opens it up and makes it very much a 13:40:02 family kind of organizer app. It allows you to 13:40:05 share information between the kids and the 13:40:08 parents. It's great for kids who are like 13:40:14 school-age that have devices that they're putting 13:40:16 calendars on there. It shares it also with her 13:40:20 happens their parents, as well. 13:40:27 And it works across multiple platforms, tablets 13:40:29 and PCs, as well. 13:40:31 So this is going to be another one that I'll 13:40:33 demonstrate for you here in a few moments. 13:40:36 And then there are apps for eating. Again, it's 13:40:38 Friday afternoon and we do all like to eat. And 13:40:42 then we can go to the apps that Anna showed us to 13:40:48 talk about how to do exercises and to count our 13:40:50 calories as we're burning them off. Again, there 13:40:53 are hundreds and hundreds of these. I've got a 13:40:57 couple of them here that I'm going to demonstrate 13:41:02 for you. One is the tasty app. When researching 13:41:05 this, I found that this had some really unique 13:41:08 recipes on it that I would like to show you. 13:41:14 This app is also available iOS and Android. 13:41:17 And then the second one is cook pad. This is also 13:41:21 available iOS and Android, according to the 13:41:23 publishers. And this app is a place where many 13:41:26 people like us that maybe create recipes or like 13:41:30 to create recipes could post their own as well as 13:41:33 lock for recipes who may be posted by others that 13:41:36 we might want to try. 13:41:41 So, now we're going to try to do a little 13:41:43 demonstration time here. 13:41:50 So let me take a moment here to -- I need to stop 13:41:54 my share. 13:42:26 here we go. 13:42:27 Brian looks good. 13:42:30 >>JIM RINEHART: : All right. 13:42:33 Okay. So here we 13:42:37 are on the cooking apps. 13:42:43 First one I'm going to 13:42:45 is Tasty. 13:43:00 Okay. So here's the Tasty app. And this at the 13:43:04 very top of it will have a place that you can do a 13:43:07 search. 13:43:14 And I'm going to type in 13:43:17 we will do a 13:43:19 search. This is the one of the ones that caught 13:43:22 my attention whenever I was researching this 13:43:25 because it has some very unique recipes. We think 13:43:31 of meatloaf as being very much a sort of a mundane 13:43:38 meat and potatoes kind of dish. But I've got this 13:43:41 and I found this recipe here for meatloaf layered 13:43:43 cake. 13:43:45 Now, my wife is a chef. And I had to show this 13:43:49 one to her. Because I was looking at this and it 13:43:52 looked liked oh my gosh, did they really take 13:43:55 meatloaf and put icing on it? But as I got 13:44:00 looking down through this, there are the 13:44:07 ingredients and the steps to make it. But I also 13:44:11 found that it was not icing as first thought of. 13:44:15 It is actually mashed potatoes. So it's not quite 13:44:19 as odd a recipe as I first discovered. 13:44:23 But it was certainly something that I found that I 13:44:27 thought was a very unique recipe. And searching 13:44:30 through this website or this app, rather, it was 13:44:33 something that I found very unique. 13:44:35 And I found many different unique kind of Reese 13:44:39 recipes on it. 13:44:42 It also allows you in the very top corner, we can 13:44:46 share this with others, as well, from there. 13:44:53 So that is the one of the things on the tasty app. 13:44:58 It has some other features near the bottom here. 13:45:01 My list foes to other places that you can kind of 13:45:05 go and look up other sorts of recipes. 13:45:09 You can create a shopping list based off of 13:45:11 something that you save in there. This is a 13:45:15 shopping list for the meatloaf layered cake. 13:45:22 And et cetera. So that is a little bit with the 13:45:24 Tasty app. 13:45:32 The other app that's in here is -- that I wanted 13:45:36 the show you is the 13:45:42 the cock pad app. And this 13:45:46 app actually has a place where it comes up with 13:45:49 latest recipes. Again, near the top you can do a 13:45:53 search. It brings up different search recipes 13:45:56 that you maybe had searched previously as I have 13:45:59 here. And I am a big fan of chocolate chip 13:46:03 cookies. So I come there. And this brings you to 13:46:11 a list of chocolate chip cookies. 13:46:14 And again you 13:46:17 can take the recipe and click on one. And it 13:46:21 takes you to the recipe. And this was posted by 13:46:25 somebody named Nadia. And it gives you again the 13:46:35 ingredients and the steps as you create this. 13:46:40 Now, one thing about this as we get down towards 13:46:43 the bottom is there is an add to plan button right 13:46:48 there. So if you're kind of putting together an 13:46:51 entire meal, you like this recipe, I can add it 13:46:55 into a plan. And down here at the very bottom, 13:47:01 notice the plan with the 1 comes in here. And you 13:47:03 can view your plan, such as this. And now we have 13:47:08 the chocolate chip cookies in our plan. 13:47:16 We can, again, go back to explore and pick 13:47:21 something else. That maybe we want to search for. 13:47:23 >> BRIAN NORTON: Jim, I have a quick question for 13:47:25 you that came up in the question and answer 13:47:28 session. There was a question about blind or 13:47:31 visually impaired users using this? And I'm 13:47:34 assuming that voiceover or talk back or Zoom or 13:47:36 magnifier will work on this? 13:47:39 >>JIM RINEHART: : I've tested this. And it seems 13:47:44 to work pretty well with voiceover using some of 13:47:47 the hand gestures. 13:47:52 Of course, that brings the sound on today. So 13:47:54 kind of avoiding using that. But there is a great 13:47:58 app, it's called yes, chef, that works very well 13:48:02 for folks who are -- particularly people with no 13:48:04 vision. And actually I had a gentleman who was 13:48:06 blind told me about it. 13:48:08 I can't seem to find it in the app store to 13:48:12 download it yet. But it does seem to work pretty 13:48:16 well with voiceover. 13:48:19 Hope any that answers the 13:48:19 question. 13:48:21 >> BRIAN NORTON: Sounds great, thank you. 13:48:25 >>JIM RINEHART: : Yeah, thank you, okay. 13:48:30 So back to this. I will go and I'll move quickly 13:48:37 through this so if I do a stirfry recipe, 13:48:39 and 13:48:48 bring up this real quick. Again, I can add it to 13:48:52 my plan, as well. And then again when I go back 13:48:54 and view my plan, now you'll see that I am 13:48:59 actually starting to build a menu for this. 13:49:03 Okay. So those are a couple of cooking kind of 13:49:06 apps. 13:49:08 I'm going kind of back out of that a little bit. 13:49:10 I'm going to switch to the calendar apps for a 13:49:19 minute. And this is the apple Calendar. It's 13:49:23 built in. And, again, I've got the days of the 13:49:26 week across the top. I've got it kind of built 13:49:30 in. And, again, this works really well with 13:49:32 voiceover. Also you can use Siri to 13:49:35 create appointments, as well. But I'm going to 13:49:40 use this to build an appointment. I click cross 13:49:45 up in the corner. I give it a title. 13:49:53 And a 13:49:56 location. 13:50:06 And I'm getting weather reports. Then 13:50:09 as you start down this, if you make an all-day 13:50:11 appointment, it will put at the very top of your 13:50:14 calendar day. I will skip over that for right 13:50:17 now. I will do the start time. So it brings this 13:50:19 up. And as you kind of scroll down a little bit, 13:50:22 this little calendar comes up here. If I'm going 13:50:27 to put today let's say starting at 2:00, I will I 13:50:31 don't these scrolls to go to that. And then when 13:50:34 I'm done, I click where it's red. And then the 13:50:39 ending time, same thing. And maybe it ends at 13:50:41 4:00. 13:50:48 Next in here is the repeat function. And this is 13:50:51 a repeating appointment. If so, it brings up this 13:50:57 little menu here and in this is a biweekly 13:50:59 appointment. 13:51:03 It goes on forever. And I'm going 13:51:06 to put it on my calendar. 13:51:10 Now, this alert tells me when do I want this to 13:51:12 remind me when this appointment is going to 13:51:17 happen? There's quite a menu here. 13:51:21 You can go 15 minutes before if you wish. And you 13:51:24 can also make any notes in here that you want. 13:51:30 And once you're done with that, we should click 13:51:38 the add button and it puts it on our calendar. 13:51:46 That is basically posting appointment. We made 13:51:51 this a biweekly appointment, two weeks from now, 13:51:54 on the 24th, you see the biweekly basis. 13:51:57 Now I'm back to the day. I can click on that. I 13:51:59 can click edit. Again, I can change times or 13:52:01 change the names of the meeting or whatever I'd 13:52:02 like to do. 13:52:06 Other things I would like to show really quick 13:52:12 here is on the calendar down at the bottom, I can 13:52:15 click on it and it has exchange calendar and I can 13:52:20 create a calendar here. So let's say I have a new 13:52:24 calendar, some other event or person that I want 13:52:28 to add. So I can put like maybe band in there. 13:52:32 And I can pick a color. It's going to give a 13:52:36 Suggs of green, which is going to be fine. And 13:52:41 I'm going to say done. And then that adds a third 13:52:45 category here called band. Now, why is that 13:52:48 important? If I'm done and using something like 13:52:51 that for my calendar, I can go back to this. I 13:52:55 can start a new appointment, and I could say 13:52:58 concert. 13:53:05 Let's say it's in Indy. 13:53:10 And it's all day. 13:53:17 And on the calendar, I'm going to put band. And 13:53:21 I'm going to add it. And that here at the top, 13:53:24 it's got an all-day appointment, a concert in Indy 13:53:28 in green, which tells me it's a band event. 13:53:35 So that's some of the basics with Apple calendar 13:53:36 in that sense. 13:53:38 The other one I want to show in in the time I have 13:53:42 remaining is one called Cozi. I do need to thank 13:53:47 Brian for letting me use his account. So the 13:53:49 thing to know is you're going to see a lot of 13:53:52 things that look like lots of people. He assures 13:53:58 me that these are all fictitious. But this is a 13:54:01 calendar. You've got July 10th today as an 13:54:06 example. Up in the upper right hand corner, 13:54:10 there's an all button. And I can -- all is 13:54:12 checked right now. But if I wanted to check just 13:54:15 Brian's events, it just closes it down and shoals 13:54:19 me only the events that pertain to that person. 13:54:22 When you're setting this account up, you can set 13:54:26 up as an account and you can add people in as you 13:54:28 need to. 13:54:30 Again, this app works very well across tablets. 13:54:33 It seems to work well with voiceover. Also works 13:54:38 with PCs and Macs, as well. So this, again, is 13:54:40 very straightforward as far as adding events. So 13:54:45 if I wanted to add an eventy would press the cross 13:54:55 in the upper right hand corner. Event title. 13:55:00 Concert. Location. Let's see. It will be in 13:55:05 Indy also. Who's going? Well right now, you have 13:55:12 everybody going. But maybe this is just going to 13:55:15 be kind of date night for Brian and his wife. So 13:55:21 I can do that and go back here. We can say when's 13:55:24 it going to be? 13:55:26 >> BRIAN NORTON: Just so you know, I'm all for 13:55:28 that, Jim. That sounds great to me. 13:55:31 >>JIM RINEHART: : Let's do that Saturday at 2:00. 13:55:38 And ends at 6:00. 13:55:41 No repeats. 13:55:45 First reminder maybe the day before. 13:55:49 And we're going to notify 13:55:59 everybody. 13:56:04 And then we're going save that appointment. And 13:56:08 now we'll see right here on Saturday the 11th, 13:56:12 there's that concert on there. 13:56:16 There's also in this, there's to do lists down at 13:56:22 the bottom. The shopping lists or to do lists. 13:56:25 And shares items to do. I've got a Brian to do 13:56:32 list. And I can add to that 13:56:50 and now it's in here. 13:56:54 And when Brian rakes the leaves, we can check, put 13:56:56 a checkmark on it and it crosses off. Very 13:56:58 satisfying to know that when you can cross them 13:57:01 off your list. 13:57:03 There's also another interesting feature in this 13:57:05 that kind of ties into what we were talking about 13:57:08 earlier. There's actually a recipe section within 13:57:12 Cozi. So, again, if you're looking for a recipe, 13:57:15 this is another great place to go. 13:57:18 And you can click on that. And it gives you 13:57:21 something here with the instructions and stuff 13:57:27 tying well into the cooking apps that we talked 13:57:29 about earlier. 13:57:33 So, that's pretty much what I've got today. I 13:57:36 appreciate everybody spending their Fridays with 13:57:46 us and if there are additional questions, we'll 13:57:48 try to answer them for you. 13:57:51 Thank you again for coming. I appreciate it. 13:57:53 Have a fantastic weekend, everybody. 13:57:56 >> BRIAN NORTON: Yeah, thank you, Anna and Jim. 13:58:01 Appreciate you guys. And we are -- let's take 13:58:04 just a couple-minute break. And then we'll invite 13:58:07 Amy here at 2:00. We've got a couple minutes if 13:58:10 you need to go grab a drink or something else, 13:58:11 we'll give you guys a short little break between 13:58:13 this session and the next. 13:58:16 So next is Amy from Bridging Apps. So glad that 13:58:18 she is here with us. And, again, in a couple 13:58:22 minutes, we'll go ahead and get her set up to 13:58:24 start presenting to you. 13:58:27 You guys so far so good. It's been good day. 13:58:28 Thank you. 14:00:26 go an Brian okay. 14:00:32 We'll get started. Amy is with Bridging Apps. 14:00:34 Thank you for taking the time for being here 14:00:36 today. We love your organization. We love what 14:00:40 you do to help people find and connect to apps. 14:00:41 I'll let you take it away. 14:00:44 >> Amy: Thanks so much. Yeah, thank you so much 14:00:46 for having us. I've been listening all day. And 14:00:50 I really, really enjoy what everyone has to say. 14:00:55 You are speaking our language. This is really 14:00:57 what we do all of the time. I'm really, really 14:01:00 fortunate to get to do this as my job. It's kind 14:01:03 of amazing sometimes I can't believe that I got 14:01:05 this lucky. 14:01:07 I am a special education teacher by degree. Oh, 14:01:10 let's get my disclosure statement out of the way. 14:01:12 So I to have a daughter with dyslexia and 14:01:14 dysgraphia, so some of the things I'm talking 14:01:17 about I have a personal kind of investment in. 14:01:20 But no financial relationships. And of course I'm 14:01:24 employed by Easterseals greater Houston wills a 14:01:27 nonprofit. 14:01:29 I am a special education teacher by degree. I 14:01:33 taught in public schools for about 13 years. And 14:01:36 I worked with all disabilities. My degree is 14:01:40 early childhood specialist, so we were taught to 14:01:44 be ready for anything. From birth even things 14:01:48 that can go wrong prenatally until, you know, 14:01:49 through the end of life. 14:01:54 So, I really, really enjoy now getting to connect 14:01:58 people with disabilities to technology. We are 14:02:03 huge advocates for families. We try to take 14:02:07 mainstream technology and gadgets and make them 14:02:09 work in a way that maybe they weren't developed 14:02:12 for but we love to think outside of the box. So 14:02:15 that's really what Bridging Apps does. We're just 14:02:19 a team of a mixed group of professionals. And we 14:02:21 just like to be really creative. 14:02:24 So, again, thank you for having us. 14:02:27 This slide, just another way to show you this 14:02:29 little girl is so cute so I can't take this slide 14:02:32 out of here. But we do a lot of in person with 14:02:34 all ages. So we help people learn how to I don't 14:02:37 devices and we pair them with the devices that we 14:02:40 think can help. And give them lots of options. 14:02:43 So, first thing we're going to do is talk about 14:02:47 some apps. I just have a mixed bag here. So 14:02:49 these are apps that I'm calling getting things 14:02:52 done. And can you hear me okay, Brian? Is the 14:02:54 sound and everything okay? Am I good? 14:02:57 >> BRIAN NORTON: Yes, I hear you just fine, yep. 14:03:00 >> Amy: Okay. And I'm going to switch between my 14:03:03 PowerPoint and actually showing you on my device. 14:03:06 So we are, fingers crossed with the technology 14:03:08 gods, that everything works fine. But please, 14:03:11 like Brian said earlier, give me some grace if it 14:03:12 doesn't. 14:03:14 So, these are the apps I'm going to talk about 14:03:21 with this. Speechify, SnapType pro, incan you, 14:03:24 kid conspiraciation maps and notarize. These are 14:03:28 a mixed bag to help get things done. Special 14:03:33 Special 14:03:37 educations -- speechify is a text to speech app. 14:03:41 It is free. Really cool. AI, text to speech is 14:03:45 not perfect. But this is a really good device. 14:03:48 Or app. It was actually created by someone with 14:03:51 dyslexia. And he wanted to read the newspaper 14:03:54 like all of his friends do, but he dwant anybody 14:03:56 to know that he couldn't really read some of the 14:03:58 words. 14:04:02 So, he created this app. And there's a really, 14:04:04 his name is cliff. There's a really cool thing 14:04:07 about his story on the app if you decide to 14:04:09 download it. This picture that you're looking at 14:04:15 that says play with me is actually from a cookbook 14:04:18 created by some Easterseals people and it has some 14:04:21 really cool font and things. And speechify takes 14:04:25 the picture with the device and it speechifies it. 14:04:28 So it turns it into a playing print on just a 14:04:30 regular plain background and then it will read it 14:04:31 to you. 14:04:34 So I'm going to show you using my device. And 14:04:36 this is where I'm going to switch my share and 14:04:42 keep my fingers crossed that it works right. 14:04:50 Okay. So just a minute you should be able to see 14:04:53 my iPad screen. 14:04:55 >> BRIAN NORTON: Yep. 14:04:59 >> Amy: Of course my iPad, let's see. Got to 14:05:01 reconnect it here, sorry. Again, technology. 14:05:05 There we go. So this is my iPad screen. These 14:05:07 are the apps we're going to be talking about. So 14:05:09 I'm going to show you speechify. It's this first 14:05:12 one here. And I'm going to use the camera of it 14:05:14 to take a picture of a book. So just a minute 14:05:18 you'll see me turn on the camera. And I'm going 14:05:21 to throw in a free little tech tip here. I'm 14:05:24 going to show you guys how I am taking this 14:05:27 picture. 14:05:31 So when you go to speechify, touch the 14:05:34 camera button on the bottom. I want you to see 14:05:37 what I'm going to prop my arm on. That is a paper 14:05:40 towel roll. We teach a lot of tips and tricks 14:05:43 about scanning. We've worked with a lot of senior 14:05:46 citizens. And just so you know, I hope that all 14:05:48 of you have at least one of these in your house. 14:05:51 I know they've been kind of scarce in the last few 14:05:54 months. But if you have a paper towel roll, sigh 14:05:56 the book there. I'm going to stand up and I'm 14:05:59 going to prop my arm on that paper towel roll and 14:06:01 it is going to put me at the perfect height to 14:06:06 scan this book. So, you don't have to worry about 14:06:08 holding too still. Anyway, just a little free 14:06:11 little tech tip. That's me trying to get 14:06:15 adjusted. But now that I'm on here, it's a free 14:06:17 little tech tip about how to take a great picture 14:06:20 or scan something with your device. No extra 14:06:25 charge for that. 14:06:27 >> The book is reading. 14:06:31 >> Amy: I want you to see this is what the page 14:06:33 looked like when I took the picture. It is going 14:06:38 to speechify it. So I will hit this down ward 14:06:43 area. It is not showing up on the share. Let's 14:06:46 see. It is behind me a little bit here. You can 14:06:49 see that it's downloading it. So now these are 14:06:54 all of the things that I have scanned. And I want 14:06:54 to show you. 14:06:58 >> Chapter # before breakfast. 14:07:01 >> Amy: Before it starts reading. I want to talk 14:07:03 to you about the imperfections in it. You can see 14:07:06 it says W chapter 1 before breakfast. Well, the 14:07:09 first page, the very first page has a huge W and 14:07:13 it doesn't recognize that. So it's kind of 14:07:14 confusing the way it reads. 14:07:16 The neat thing about this is that you can touch 14:07:22 the font, the upper and lowercase A up here. 14:07:25 Oops, sorry. Yes, you can edit the text. 14:07:29 So when I go to edit techs it, it put that W at 14:07:31 the very beginning also and I don't want that 14:07:32 there. 14:07:35 Also, it says chapter 1 before break false the 14:07:39 here's papa. Well, that W belongs at the bottom 14:07:41 of the word here's. 14:07:47 So I'm going to try to edit it. 14:07:52 So I'm going to change that to where's. 14:07:58 So before breakfast is the beginning of that 14:08:01 chapter. And I'm going change that to where's 14:08:05 papa going with that axe. I can also go up here 14:08:09 and edit in the title because it put that Wthere, 14:08:12 if my daughter goes to read that she will be super 14:08:17 confused why is that big Wthere. 14:08:20 If you are able to hear this. I hope you are. It 14:08:22 will read it to us. 14:08:26 >> The one before breakfast -- 14:08:29 >> Amy: It changed toy it wherever. I messed up 14:08:32 on my editing. But you get the idea. It's hard 14:08:35 to edit under pressure during a presentation. 14:08:38 So, you get the idea. The cool thing about this 14:08:42 is you can change the speed so in the bottom 14:08:46 corner there see how I touched the odometer. And 14:08:48 you can change the speed. We work with a lot of 14:08:50 people who are with visually impaired. Sometimes 14:08:52 they like to listen to things faster than what 14:08:55 those of us who are not visually impaired are used 14:09:00 to. You know, they can take that in and 14:09:03 understand it a lot faster. 14:09:06 Maybe you have somebody who cognitively needs it a 14:09:08 bit slower. You can change the speed however you 14:09:11 want. It also comes with several free voices. I 14:09:15 am using the free version here. It comes with 14:09:18 several free voices. You can choose U.S., 14:09:21 Australian, British, male, female, lots of choices 14:09:22 there. 14:09:24 >> To her mother as they were setting the table 14:09:25 for breakfast. 14:09:27 >> Amy: This is a really good freeway. 14:09:32 The best part is it works on tablets and phones. 14:09:35 So that you could have it in your pocket like 14:09:37 cliff, the guy who created this, talked about. 14:09:39 Everybody walks around with a smartphone. So he 14:09:42 has it in his pocket. He can pull it own and scan 14:09:45 something. Has his earbuds in. Nobody knows that 14:09:48 he's actually having that read to him. So it's 14:09:52 just a really good thing for people of all ages. 14:09:55 I don't want the spend too much time on each app. 14:09:57 I have a lot to show you. So I will get out of 14:09:58 that one. 14:10:01 Let's go back to our presentation here. 14:10:10 Okay. So that's speechify. We do have a really 14:10:13 neat video of it if you'd like to see it on our 14:10:14 website and I'll give you all of our information 14:10:16 about that at the end. 14:10:19 Another one is SnapType pro. I'm not going to go 14:10:21 into this one and show you. But it is really 14:10:24 similar. Except that this is one where when you 14:10:27 scan a document, you can actually edit it. 14:10:30 So, I know that there are lots of websites. We 14:10:34 used a lot of web-based things to help us edit 14:10:39 documents to avoid having to pay for act rep pro. 14:10:42 I don't like paying that much for something I 14:10:44 don't use every single day. 14:10:46 So this is a great option for people who may not 14:10:49 even use a desktop and may not have that option of 14:10:52 using any of those websites. This is an app where 14:10:57 they can actually scan something and then edit it 14:10:59 right there. And then they can share it. So you 14:11:06 can see on these screenshots that has the arrow 14:11:10 for sharing, all these right here. This little 14:11:12 arrow that Apple devices use, the arrow with the 14:11:15 box, you click that, you can text it to someone, 14:11:17 you can email it, you can even share to your 14:11:20 Google Drive, things like that. So this is a 14:11:23 great way. You see I have a job application on 14:11:25 here. They could fill out the application on this 14:11:29 device. And then send it to somebody. So great 14:11:33 for someone who, like my daughter, has dysgraphia 14:11:35 and may have some handwriting issues and need to 14:11:39 type. And then they're presented with a paper 14:11:43 document. And they don't want to handwrite it. 14:11:45 It's also great for teachers. So I know we have 14:11:47 some educators in here based on the survey this 14:11:50 morning. This is just an example of where I 14:11:53 scanned a basic worksheet. The child fills it in 14:11:56 on the device. And then the teacher can email it 14:11:58 to themselves, whatever they need to do to save 14:11:59 it. 14:12:06 So, that's another little option. 14:12:10 The next one is another tool for dyslexia. This 14:12:15 is called Inku. Oh, and I forgot say that 14:12:18 SnapType the pro version is $499. And then they 14:12:21 do have a free version. And actually what I use 14:12:23 is the free version of the one of the limitations 14:12:26 of it is that you can only save three documents at 14:12:30 a time. So what I do is I get rid of the ones I'm 14:12:34 not using anymore and I only keep three in there. 14:12:36 When I use it for presentation purposes. But the 14:12:40 pro version is only $4.99 so that's not a bad deal 14:12:43 for an app and that's just a one time cost. 14:12:46 Inku is not free. And right now it is available 14:12:50 only for iPad and iPhone. But I want to show you 14:12:55 what it does. It is $14.99. 14:12:58 I've been in touch with the developers about it 14:13:00 because I was so excited about it. I talked to 14:13:04 them, did a review, just talked to them about it. 14:13:06 They are working on getting some Android version 14:13:11 out there. But Inku is a speech to text app. So 14:13:15 I'm going to actually show you Inku. This is a 14:13:18 sheen shot from it. But I want you to see what it 14:13:21 can do. So pardon my switching again. 14:13:30 We're going to go back to my iPad here and Inku is 14:13:31 this third icon. 14:13:36 So, this is a very basic layout. You can see 14:13:39 these are some of the documents that I've made. 14:13:42 This tab is the green one, the folder tab. When 14:13:44 you click on that, it shows you everything you 14:13:46 have. You can search through your documents if 14:13:48 you have a lot. This is where it would be a good 14:13:51 idea to teach the person using it how to name 14:13:55 things appropriately so they can go back and 14:13:56 easily search. 14:13:58 If you want to make a new document, all you do is 14:14:01 hit this second tab, the plus sign, and you can 14:14:03 see that it opens up. And then you hit the third 14:14:06 tab, the microphone. And it's going to open up. 14:14:09 It's going to be listening to me and it's going to 14:14:11 start typing everything I say. So let's do a 14:14:13 little practice with it. 14:14:14 Hi! 14:14:20 This is Amy with Bridging Apps. So when you're 14:14:23 done talking, you hit that square. It goes away. 14:14:25 Now you can see again it's not perfect. Bridging 14:14:28 Apps is not a name that it would automatically 14:14:33 recognize. But, again, you can go in and edit. 14:14:37 So I would just edit that. Cut it. Change it 14:14:40 out. You can capitalize if you need to. It is 14:14:43 like using Siri. You could hear that I said 14:14:45 exclamation point. You say period. And it goes 14:14:48 ahead and puts those in for you. So you have you 14:14:54 have to teach the person who's using that to use 14:14:56 the punctuation along the way. 14:15:00 I want to show you one my daughter did. 14:15:04 Okay. So 14:15:07 I'm going to go back to this one named Megan. 14:15:13 Megan did this on her own. You can see she 14:15:15 corrected potter where it didn't have it 14:15:18 capitalized in the beginning. But she didn't, she 14:15:22 missed a capitalization down here. So some of the 14:15:24 spelling, again you have to go back and really 14:15:27 watch it. But if she were trying to write a 14:15:29 story, this is way better than her having to 14:15:31 dictate it to me and have me write it because if 14:15:34 you know anyone with dysgraphia, it's writing down 14:15:37 a story is just really, really hard. And she 14:15:39 loves to tell stories. So she does not hate ice 14:15:43 cream, by the way. She had just gotten her 14:15:45 tonsils and it was overloaded with ice cream and 14:15:48 deshilded she didn't like it that day. But she's 14:15:49 back to liking it again. 14:15:52 The neat thing here is you can go up and hit the 14:15:54 W there in the middle and you can change the font 14:15:59 sizes. Do the alignment. Anything you would on a 14:16:01 regular document, text document. 14:16:03 Here you can share it. 14:16:05 Again, this one has the ability to share to Google 14:16:08 Drive. You can actually just connect it to your 14:16:10 Google Drive and it will automatically save 14:16:11 everything you do. 14:16:13 You can message it. You can send it to all 14:16:18 different kinds of apps. Just like you can with 14:16:22 anything else on your device. So it's pretty 14:16:23 comprehensive. 14:16:25 If you click this speaker one. 14:16:28 >> My name is Megan. Hi, my name is Megan and I 14:16:32 love Harry Potter. I also like writing stories. 14:16:35 I hate ice cream and getting my tonsils taken out. 14:16:38 My favorite book movie is Harry Potter and thesor 14:16:40 certain certain's stone and Harry Potter and the 14:16:43 order of the Phoenix. 14:16:45 >> Amy: Then you can go up the last option is 14:16:48 settings and it has a lot of different settings. 14:16:51 It has a dictionary. You can actually look up 14:16:54 words through it. Again, you can connect to your 14:16:56 Google Drive. Just lots of options on there. 14:17:00 So, again, it's $15. It's a one-time fee. It is 14:17:03 still fairly cheap for the things that it does. 14:17:06 We've been really impressed with it so far. So 14:17:08 that's just a good option for getting things done 14:17:12 for you. 14:17:16 The next one I'm going to show you is -- and I am 14:17:20 going to show you on the presentation here. 14:17:24 I hope you all are not getting nauseate with me 14:17:28 switching back and forth. But kid spiration 14:17:30 names. Now I know it has kids in the name and 14:17:34 some people are turned off by having an older 14:17:36 teenager, young adult use these. But I want to 14:17:38 show you something that's really cool about this 14:17:39 app. 14:17:43 This is a mind mapping app. And if any of you are 14:17:45 in education, you know what mind mapping is. Mind 14:17:50 mapping can be used for remembering facts, for 14:17:54 teaching someone how to connect important facts in 14:17:59 their minds so that they can remember events and 14:18:00 recall them as needed. 14:18:03 It's also a great way to teach writing to young 14:18:04 children. 14:18:07 So this is one that we made about my daughter. 14:18:11 She got to pet a sloth at the zoo. And we just 14:18:15 started out with these basic circles, these basic 14:18:18 bubbles. And you can see it adds these bubbles 14:18:20 for you. All I did was insert a picture and it 14:18:23 adds these little bubbles and I typed into them. 14:18:26 So you can build off of each one. If I were to 14:18:29 click this bubble calm, you can see how there's an 14:18:31 arrow coming out. It would make another bubble 14:18:34 there. So it's a really great way to show kids 14:18:36 how to plan out their thoughts. 14:18:38 If you have someone with autism who needs to write 14:18:42 stories about something that they did, this is a 14:18:45 great way to start. Kids love pictures. You can 14:18:47 add as many pictures as you want. It actually 14:18:51 comes with a bank of different icons and things 14:18:56 that you can add to it by just clicking. 14:19:01 If you click on these lines here, if you click on 14:19:03 these lines up here in the corner, it will change 14:19:08 it to a list view. So it will put all of these 14:19:10 thoughts in the same order, but it will have them 14:19:13 listed out rather than have them in the map nthe 14:19:16 visual map. But just the educator in me, mapping 14:19:19 is a great way to help children with that. 14:19:20 And anybody. 14:19:23 So, again, even though it says kid spiration in 14:19:26 the title, this is one that's dmiftly worth 14:19:29 looking into. They do have a light version. I 14:19:33 always recommend downloading the light version, 14:19:36 too, someone said that earlier, and try it out. 14:19:41 The full version is a one time purchase of $9.99. 14:19:44 If you do decide on the full version it is not a 14:19:48 whole lot of investment. We don't what our school 14:19:50 will look like. It's supposed to start in six 14:19:52 weeks. This may be something that teachers really 14:19:55 want to look at using to help their students. 14:19:59 And, again, there's a way to share here. You can 14:20:01 share through email. Pretty much any way your 14:20:05 device shares, most of these apps will allow you 14:20:07 to share it that way. So, again, just another 14:20:11 kind of creative option for using that to teach 14:20:13 writing. 14:20:18 Now, this one is notarize. And I don't know if 14:20:21 any of you have ever heard about it. It's kind of 14:20:23 an odd one for me to throw in here, but because of 14:20:25 what's happening right now and because so many of 14:20:28 us are at home and we work with a lot of senior 14:20:31 citizens and a lot of adults who are really, 14:20:34 really stuck at home because they depend on that 14:20:36 public transportation and those kind of things and 14:20:40 it's all just very iffy right now. 14:20:42 We talked to them about this app. Notarize is 14:20:48 actually a free app to download. And you can have 14:20:51 any document, other than wills, you cannot do a 14:20:55 will, but you can have basic documents notarized 14:20:57 online. So you can see here in the screenshots, 14:21:00 I'm not going to show you obviously because if 14:21:02 you, once you start connecting then it puts you 14:21:04 with an agent and that would be a little bit 14:21:05 awkward during a presentation. So I'm not going 14:21:08 to do that. You set up an account for it. You 14:21:10 scan the document. You have to prove that you're 14:21:14 a U.S. citizen. U.S. citizens can do it no matter 14:21:16 where you are. So you can be at home or you can 14:21:22 be traveling. It is $25 per document. So it's 14:21:27 eye they are able to do it because of a law in 14:21:29 Virginia, I believe, that allows this online 14:21:33 notary. And they've extended it to all U.S. 14:21:36 citizens. So it's a very, very neat service. It 14:21:39 could be a great way to avoid having to go to an 14:21:41 office right now and be around people, especially 14:21:46 if you are at risk. And that's not safe for you. 14:21:48 Before all of this, back in the other world we 14:21:52 used to live in, we always told parents about they 14:21:54 specially if they had a child with multiple 14:21:57 disabilities or who was medically fragile and 14:22:02 didn't need to be drug all over town into 14:22:04 someone's office with a bunch of people and having 14:22:06 to go through that whole process just to get one 14:22:09 document notarized. So this is a really great 14:22:13 option for that. $25 is totally worth it to me. 14:22:15 If I'm in that situation and getting out of the 14:22:17 house is just so hard. 14:22:20 And, again, for the seniors that we serve, some of 14:22:23 them are maybe visually impaired, completely 14:22:26 blind. They rely on public transportation. You 14:22:28 know, all of that. This is another great option 14:22:31 for them. 14:22:36 Now, let's talk about fun and leisure. 14:22:40 Brian, I guess you're going to stop me if there 14:22:43 are any questions. I feel like I'm moving through 14:22:45 it very fast. I like interacting with people. 14:22:47 >> BRIAN NORTON: I'll make sure to interject if 14:22:48 there are any questions. 14:22:51 >> Amy: I like interacting with people. I would 14:22:53 prefer to be in a room with all of you right now. 14:22:55 So please stop me if there are any questions. 14:22:58 Okay. So fun, leisure. 14:23:02 A lot 6 us are having to fill time that we haven't 14:23:05 had to fill before. I'm going to talk about some 14:23:10 of these audio book apps, hoopla, digital, if you 14:23:13 don't know that one you're going to be really 14:23:15 excited by what I have to say. Libby by overdrive 14:23:18 is very similar. As a disclaimer, I am not going 14:23:21 to go into barred, any of you who work with people 14:23:24 with visual impairments or have visual impairments 14:23:27 no about it. It is a great app. You do have to 14:23:30 qualify to be able to use it. 14:23:33 This Bard and the original overdrive are the best 14:23:36 for people with visual impairments. They work 14:23:39 best with voiceover. Those are the masters. 14:23:41 That's the gold standard for it. 14:23:44 Hoopla and Libby are not there yet. They are 14:23:46 working on it. But just so you know, if you're 14:23:49 recommending this for someone with a visual 14:23:52 impairment, these are the two ways to go. Blood 14:23:55 pressure ut want to show you hoopla and Libby you 14:23:58 don't have to qualify to use them. All you have 14:24:01 to have is a library card. 14:24:03 And I'll also talk about explore.org. 14:24:06 Let's look at some screenshots from hoopla. 14:24:11 Hoopla is, as I said, free to download. You have 14:24:14 to have a library card. You go in after you make 14:24:17 an account choosing your email and a password. So 14:24:20 hoopla will recognize you. Then you can add your 14:24:21 library card. 14:24:23 We have run into the problem where some people 14:24:26 don't visit the library anymore. But now all of a 14:24:29 sudden they're looking for things to do and they 14:24:33 cannot go to a bookstore. Lots of places are 14:24:36 offering -- lots of the library systems are 14:24:40 offering library cards online. I am in Houston, 14:24:43 Texas. Here in Houston, for the whole state of 14:24:45 Texas, they are offering you can get a temporary 14:24:50 library card just by showing your residency. You 14:24:53 can actually get it even if you're out of state. 14:24:59 I think it's $010 if you are out of state. And 14:25:01 they are good until the libraries open back up in 14:25:04 Texas. Right now that date has not been set. 14:25:06 They are all still closed. So they keep kind of 14:25:08 bumping it through. It's through the end of 14:25:11 August for sure right now, I think. So they keep 14:25:14 bumping that date back. But that's just a good 14:25:14 option. 14:25:17 My mother likes to read a lot. And she's been 14:25:19 re-reading the same book. So I finally got her to 14:25:22 sign up for hoopla because she's upset she can't 14:25:24 get to the library. 14:25:27 So with hoopla, you can see on the screenshot, let 14:25:31 me get my pointer back. You can rent videos. 14:25:39 Music. Books. They have audio books and ebooks. 14:25:41 The audio book will only show you the cover that's 14:25:45 what this "To Kill a Mockingbird" is. Just an 14:25:47 audio book. It will show you the cover and it 14:25:49 will read to you. An e-book is actually one that 14:25:52 you might read on a kindle. Where it shows you 14:25:56 the pages. And you flip through the pages like 14:26:01 you would a regular paper book. But you don't a 14:26:03 paper book to carry around. It's just on your 14:26:05 device. One of the things with these apps with 14:26:09 hoopla and Libby, most of them you can check out 14:26:12 at least five box. It depends upon your library's 14:26:14 agreement with these apps. For mine I can get 14:26:18 five books a month. And then once your borrow 14:26:21 time tborrow time is 2 # days. So once your 14:26:28 borrow time is up, the book is automatically 14:26:30 returned. You don't have to worry about library 14:26:34 fees or worrying about dropping them off, those 14:26:36 kind of things. This is a really God app for 14:26:38 people who are avid readers. I usually read more 14:26:41 than five box in a month. So I am known to log in 14:26:43 with my children's library cards when they're not 14:26:46 using them so I can get extra books. 14:26:48 But, so this is a great thing. I don't have all 14:26:53 those books to recycle. 14:26:55 One of the really neat things about this is it's 14:26:59 different from the AI text to speech in that these 14:27:03 are performed. You can see if you notice here 14:27:05 it's very tiny but on this "To Kill a 14:27:08 Mockingbird", it's actually performed by sissy 14:27:11 spay sec which is really awesome, right? So they 14:27:14 are -- it is like listening to a movie. It is 14:27:16 like just having your eyes closed and listening to 14:27:19 a movie. They're very, very entertaining. They 14:27:21 put a lot of effort into recording these books. 14:27:24 So it's definitely worth it. 14:27:29 The same thing with Libby. Libby is very similar. 14:27:30 I'll show you some screenshots with it. It looks 14:27:33 a little different. But this is a screenshot from 14:27:36 Dr. Doolittle. So it has all kind of classics on 14:27:39 it. Just everything. You can see some choices 14:27:42 here when you log in. You can, for both of them, 14:27:45 you can set your preferences for how you want to 14:27:48 log in. I mean for how you want to search for 14:27:52 box. So for me I like misserries and thrillers. 14:27:55 So I have those marked on there. And it's only 14:27:59 going to search for those kind win my children are 14:28:01 using it. I have their interest marked on there. 14:28:04 It's a really food app for all abilities and all 14:28:07 age groups. 14:28:10 My daughter loves Harry potter as she said in that 14:28:12 thing she made. She has now read all of the books 14:28:15 through audio book. And when she was in fourth 14:28:17 grade. And that's something that she could not 14:28:20 have done because of her dyslexia. But her 14:28:23 comprehension level allows her to do that. So I 14:28:26 know that we all know and love people in our lives 14:28:29 who are in that situation. So an audio pook is a 14:28:33 really great outlet. And way for them to be able 14:28:35 to reeled those age-appropriate things that they 14:28:40 might not actually be able to read independently. 14:28:44 So Libby and hoopla. 14:28:53 Now, let me go back to this one. So like I said 14:28:56 Bard, if you have not checked into that, it is 14:29:00 done by the national library service. It's for 14:29:05 people who have a reading disability, a text, I 14:29:08 can't remember how they word it, I think it's a 14:29:10 text disability. But it also includes people with 14:29:13 physical disabilities. So if you are unable to 14:29:19 physically hold a paper book and flip the pages, 14:29:22 that will qualify aboutf you for this. It's not 14:29:25 just about visual impairments. It's not just 14:29:27 about those reading disabilities. It also does 14:29:30 include that, which is really, really awesome. We 14:29:32 have a lot of clients who benefit from that, for 14:29:33 sure. 14:29:36 And then overdrive again you can see it says Libby 14:29:38 by overdrive. They're created by the same people. 14:29:42 Libby I feel is like the more I don't remember 14:29:46 friendly one. But overdrive is bells lt for 14:29:50 voiceover and for those who are completely blind. 14:29:56 So let's go now. I'm going show you this 14:29:57 explore.org. 14:30:01 Explore.org. I will show you this on my iPad 14:30:04 because it's really amazing. I know that right 14:30:07 now we have been kind of overwhelmed online with 14:30:10 all of these virtual field trips and all of these 14:30:13 different options and every museum and zoo seems 14:30:16 to have a camera place where you can watch these 14:30:18 really cool videos. And I love them. But it is 14:30:21 very overwhelming and it's hard for me to 14:30:23 remember. Now where did I see that video that I 14:30:25 really liked? If I want to have my coffee and 14:30:28 enjoy some nature, where did I see that? How do I 14:30:32 get back to it? Explore.org is a one stop 14:30:36 shopping for that. So these are screenshots from 14:30:38 the app which I'm going to show you. And they 14:30:41 also you can just go the website, explore.org. 14:30:43 You don't have to sign in. You don't have to make 14:30:45 an account, nothing like that. You can just start 14:30:48 exploring their streams. They have live streams. 14:30:51 And then they have some that are video highlights. 14:30:56 So like if you are into Sharks, the live streams, 14:30:58 sometimes the shark may swim by, sometimes they 14:31:00 don't. Especially if they are in the ocean. 14:31:03 But the highlights will show you like all their 14:31:05 best clips from the cameras. 14:31:10 So I'm going to switch here to my iPad. 14:31:12 Let's 14:31:15 make sure my iPad has not gone off of screen share 14:31:16 again. 14:31:18 There we go. 14:31:22 Server goes to sleep. So here's my iPad. This 14:31:27 explore.org looks like a little brain. I love 14:31:29 their -- I may be an malessed, but I love their 14:31:30 icon. 14:31:35 So, it's pulling up the channel. So you can see. 14:31:38 This says continue watching. This is because I 14:31:41 watched Bears for a long time today. This one is 14:31:44 a livestream from these Walter falls in Alaska. 14:31:47 And hopefully we'll get something good. Yes. 14:31:52 Lock. It's the spawning. There are three bears 14:31:55 in this one shot. So it's just really, really 14:31:57 amazing, really col. It's something great to 14:32:01 share with our kids. That sound is coming from my 14:32:03 iPad that you hear. I will turn that down. But 14:32:06 if you like the sound, you can hear the waterfall 14:32:10 there. I mean, lock, he's just watching the 14:32:13 salmon spawning. It's just amazing going 14:32:13 upstream. 14:32:16 So it's something really cool. A good educational 14:32:19 opportunity and a good just relaxing opportunity. 14:32:23 One of the people on our team who will remain 14:32:25 unnamed says that every morning when she has her 14:32:28 coffee, she has like the beluga whales or 14:32:30 something that she enjoys watching. So she just 14:32:33 sits and watches the livestream. The bears are 14:32:36 amazing but that's not the only one. There's also 14:32:39 this Brocks live chat. And this guy talks about 14:32:43 the Bears. 14:32:45 >> There's a whole river smell of dead fish right 14:32:48 now. This is I think I'll just trty to get to 14:32:49 this question. 14:32:52 >> Amy: He answers questions. He's reading them 14:32:55 off live. He answers them. He talks about really 14:32:57 neat facts about the bears. And why they are all 14:32:59 there together. Sometimes you'll see four or five 14:33:01 of them in one shot and they're just all ignoring 14:33:04 each other. Just really interesting information. 14:33:06 So this is one that we have especially shared with 14:33:13 our senior population, again, as they are home and 14:33:15 looking for things do and trying the keep their 14:33:17 minds sharp. This is just a great one. They're 14:33:19 not all Bears. There are all kinds of here are 14:33:22 the categories here. Dog bless you is all these 14:33:24 things about dogs. Apparently this is one of 14:33:26 their most popular kind of collections. You can 14:33:30 go in and see where they are 14:33:33 raising service dogs, 14:33:40 where they're training them. They have different 14:33:45 kinds of collections. This nature Zen is one that 14:33:47 is just all different kinds of relaxing scenes. 14:33:50 So a lot of good stress relief. We were talking 14:33:52 about mental health earlier. We're all really 14:33:54 concerned about not only our mental health but the 14:33:57 people that we serve, those people with 14:33:59 disabilities who are more at risk for some of the 14:34:02 problems with mental health issues. 14:34:05 So these are just a lot of really, "hey, you're 14:34:07 really stressed, but I know you really like ocean 14:34:09 scenes. It's too bad we can't be at the beach 14:34:12 right now or it's too bad we can't go the aquarium 14:34:15 but let's take a look at some of these animals and 14:34:17 see what they're doing. Just something to get 14:34:19 your mind off of all that stressful news and the 14:34:24 other things that are kind of bombarding us right 14:34:24 now. 14:34:31 So this is, again, a great free one. It's done by 14:34:31 a nonprofit. Just a lot of really great feeds on 14:34:32 there. And things that you can check into. 14:34:35 So just keep scrolling down. And it is also, like 14:34:38 I said, it is web-based. So you can go to their 14:34:41 website at work and need during your lunch break 14:34:43 you can just click on their website and find 14:34:46 something to watch. And take a little brain break 14:34:48 from that. 14:34:53 So, let's go back again to the PowerPoint. 14:35:00 Okay. So that was explore.org. 14:35:03 Really cool, right? So this is a really great, 14:35:06 the way I'm showing you these, this is really what 14:35:10 Bridging Apps does. We try to give people these I 14:35:13 don't case scenarios and make them think about 14:35:15 things and use for things in a way that they might 14:35:18 not have thought of before. 14:35:23 Now, I'm going to talk about the fun ones just for 14:35:25 a few minutes and then I want to give you 14:35:28 information about our Bridging Apps website. We 14:35:32 have a tool there on our website I don't think 14:35:35 Brian would let me forgive me if I didn't mention 14:35:39 that. That's kind of the meat and potatos of 14:35:41 Bridging Apps. If about anybody played heads up. 14:35:44 I am not affiliated with them. They are a 99-cent 14:35:47 app. I am not encouraging you to go spend a 14:35:50 dollar. But if you work with people with autism, 14:35:53 with social anxieties, things like that, I know 14:35:54 you're about to say I can't believe you're 14:35:57 suggesting I do this. But as a teacher, if I had 14:36:00 had this, something I would have played with my 14:36:04 students in class because it is a great 14:36:04 icebreaker. 14:36:09 Heads up is bsically charades. You can choose to 14:36:13 have it record if they're doing it and act it out, 14:36:15 it will record the people who are acting it out. 14:36:18 It's a great fun video to go back and watch. We 14:36:21 have some from our retreat that are locked up that 14:36:23 no one's allowed to see. But we played this on 14:36:27 our retreat. And it was really funny. 14:36:30 So, it's a great icebreaker. It's something to 14:36:32 think about for the classroom when we get back to 14:36:33 the classrooms. 14:36:36 Anyway, just another thing. It's not just for 14:36:39 fun. It can be a great kind of getting everybody 14:36:42 out of their comfort zone and learning to learn 14:36:44 about each other. Opening up to learning about 14:36:45 each other. 14:36:48 This other one, chatter picks, these are two of 14:36:51 the same things. Chatter picks and chatter picks 14:36:53 kids, they are both free. I will show you on my 14:36:55 device what they can do. And I'm going to show 14:36:57 you a little video about them. 14:36:59 The difference between the two is that chatter 14:37:04 picks will allow social media sharing and chatter 14:37:07 picks kids will not. So if you're giving this to 14:37:09 a child, I would recommend you I don't the kid 14:37:13 version so they are not accidentally posting to 14:37:16 Facebook or whatever videos of themselves or 14:37:17 videos that they make. These are just some 14:37:19 screenshots from heads up so you can kind of see 14:37:21 the difference in the heads up and the heads up 14:37:25 kids is that they I don't pictures in heads up 14:37:28 kids. And heads up uses words. So if you have 14:37:31 someone who's a nonreader, heads up kids is a 14:37:33 great idea because they can still participate just 14:37:35 like everyone else. 14:37:40 Chatter picks I. don't want to play that video 14:37:43 yet. Chatter picks is a really cool app. It is 14:37:47 done by Khan academy. If you're not familiar with 14:37:51 them, they are a great nonprofit for education. 14:37:53 They are apps are sustainable because of the way 14:37:56 they're funded. So we know that we can rely on 14:37:59 their apps. They keep them updated. They just 14:38:02 have some really great things for education, for 14:38:04 all ages. 14:38:06 So chatter picks is put out by them. 14:38:09 What you do with chatter picks is that you take a 14:38:12 picture with your device and then you Drew a mouth 14:38:15 on the object you took a picture of. And then you 14:38:18 can make it talk. So this video I'm going to show 14:38:21 you is actually an example from my daughter had to 14:38:24 do a book report. And she was in second grade at 14:38:26 the time, I believe. She was not diagnosed with 14:38:28 dyslexia yet. But we knew that there was 14:38:31 something, you know, going on, obviously in 14:38:33 dysgraphia like I said. So writing a book report 14:38:36 for her was painful. Like she did not want to do 14:38:39 that. She didn't want to have anything to do with 14:38:41 it. But she read this book. This is called 14:38:44 pancakes pancakes by arl Carl. We took a picture 14:38:47 of the cover. And then she told me what she 14:38:49 wanted to say about the book. And I wrote it down 14:38:52 and we worked on it together. And then she 14:38:54 recorded herself saying that. And this was her 14:38:58 book report. So I want to keep my fingers crossed 14:39:01 that the sound works for you on this. 14:39:08 >> Pancakes pancakes. Zpliel' restart it because 14:39:12 I had it muted. I'm so sorry about it. And it is 14:39:14 also captioned. Captioning can take a break for a 14:39:17 minute. (captioner yea!) 14:39:44 >> Amy: Okay. So I know you're all like, aw, 14:39:47 wait. This second grader just was confident 14:39:49 because she did a back report and was able to turn 14:39:53 it in and no one knew what struggles shield with 14:39:54 it. She at any time have to stand in front of the 14:39:56 class and read anything. She didn't have to show 14:40:01 the teacher her writing that was illegible. This 14:40:05 is amazing. And this app is free. 14:40:07 So you can imagine a lot of possibilities for 14:40:10 this. Not only in school. If you are working on 14:40:12 social situations and you want your child or your 14:40:15 young adult or your family member to be able to 14:40:19 intro us the themselves, they could always take a 14:40:22 picture of themselves. Draw a mouth. You see the 14:40:24 little slash mark. You use your finger or a 14:40:27 pointer or a dial us to draw the mouth. And then 14:40:30 record themselves. So they're not actually on 14:40:32 video. They're not actually making a video of 14:40:34 themselves because not many of us like to be on 14:40:37 video. But they are using their own voice to 14:40:40 introduce themselves to someone. You know, a new 14:40:45 teacher. A new camp counselor. A new caregiver. 14:40:46 Whatever the case may be. There are a lot of 14:40:49 really amazing organizations for this app that 14:40:52 chatter pix probably just made it thinking it 14:40:54 would be funny. And it is funny. We take 14:40:56 pictures of our coffee cups and draw a mouth on 14:40:59 them. And they say things like "a.m. ill's not 14:41:02 nice until she has at least fill me up one time in 14:41:03 the morning". 14:41:05 We do funny things like that with it. But there 14:41:09 are a lot of really good arguments for use case 14:41:12 for this app. And, again, it is absolutely free. 14:41:15 I encourage you all to take pictures of your dog 14:41:18 and put a little mouth on them or your cat, it's 14:41:20 even better if you have a cat. And make them say 14:41:21 something. 14:41:24 So, again, this is just a really creative way to 14:41:27 put our loved ones out there. You know, when they 14:41:29 might not be so comfortable with that. 14:41:32 So, anyway, I wanted to make sure we got to that 14:41:34 and was able to share that with you. 14:41:38 Now, Brian, we don't have any questions, do we? I 14:41:42 feel like, again, I'm going really fast. But just 14:41:44 on time to be able to share. 14:41:46 >> BRIAN NORTON: None so far. 14:41:49 >> Amy: Okay. So now I'm going to stop switching 14:41:52 back and forth screens and I am going to just show 14:41:54 you our Bridging Apps website. 14:41:58 So, what we do at Bridging Apps besides the 14:42:00 in-person part is that we have this custom built 14:42:07 app search tool. I'm going to show you I think 14:42:09 the next slide is. Here's a screenshot of what it 14:42:12 looks like. I'll switch to it in just a minute. 14:42:14 We take mainstream apps. We do not develop any 14:42:20 apps on our own. We to have a couple of websites 14:42:23 but we don't develop apps. We take mainstream 14:42:25 apps and look at them through the lens of a person 14:42:28 with a disability. We're a mixed bag of people. 14:42:30 Professionals. We have parents. We have 14:42:34 nutritionists. We have speech pathologists. We 14:42:37 have all different kind of professionals, several 14:42:39 teachers. And all of the teachers have different 14:42:41 strengths, which is really interesting. None of 14:42:45 us are all the same kind of teacher. 14:42:48 And we also have reviewers all over the country. 14:42:51 So, you know, I heard Josh talking about an app 14:42:53 this morning that I know for sure we do not have a 14:42:55 review of. So I'm thinking "I need to reach out 14:42:59 to Josh and ask if he'll review that app for us". 14:43:03 So we do that. We go to professionals who we know 14:43:05 use these apps. They have to have used them with 14:43:07 someone with a disability and we get them to help 14:43:08 us write these reviews. 14:43:13 So let me switch to the actual browser here. So 14:43:22 you can, we can get in here and try it out. 14:43:26 Sorry. Hold on. 14:43:33 Make sure my window's open there. Don't want to 14:43:34 do this. 14:43:37 Hold on. Technical errors. 14:43:40 First all the pointer is -- 14:43:45 okay. There we are. 14:43:45 Chrome. 14:43:48 So when you go to our website the address I had up 14:43:51 there, Bridging Apps.org. This is our main 14:43:53 website. Has a lot of things scrolling through. 14:43:56 There are a lot of different options on here. We 14:43:57 have a blog. We have all these different things. 14:44:00 But this that I'm going show you is under this 14:44:03 tab. Oh, and there's the pop-up for it also. But 14:44:05 under app search if you click on the very first 14:44:07 thing, find an app. It is going to take you to 14:44:10 our tash board which is exactly like the 14:44:12 screenshot you just saw. 14:44:17 The neat thing about this is that we have built in 14:44:19 a lot of different search, ways to search for 14:44:22 something. So everything, again we don't take any 14:44:24 money from developers. You can't say I just 14:44:27 created this new app, I want to pay you to say 14:44:29 great things about it. We don't do that. 14:44:33 We give very honest reviews. And we always are 14:44:36 nice. But if something doesn't work for a certain 14:44:38 population, we will say that. "This was not the 14:44:41 best for this population but it might be great for 14:44:42 other, this other group." 14:44:46 We have a lot of different ways over here you can 14:44:48 search. We have different lists. If you just 14:44:51 don't know what you want to look for, but you want 14:44:53 some ideas, these things are lists. So there's a 14:44:56 Bridging Apps summer list. Libby by overdrive is 14:44:58 on it. You can click on that and you can see all 14:45:02 these different things that we have found to be 14:45:04 helpful for people during summer. Kids are out of 14:45:07 school, you might have other things to do. 14:45:12 There's one of the Khan academies I was talking 14:45:16 about. Keeping up with schools.Tic cock. Getting 14:45:18 -- Tik 14:45:21 Tok. You can also go up here and search for a key 14:45:24 word. So I could search hoopla. Another one we 14:45:27 just did. Don't do that. 14:45:31 Let's do books. 14:45:34 So, this actually gives us lots of lists for 14:45:36 books. Oh that's why it did that because I was in 14:45:37 app list. 14:45:47 So you can search by category. My ven e screen 14:45:51 share a little behind what I'm doing. You can 14:45:54 search for category. Only AAC apps. And then it 14:45:57 will bring up all these different apps for 14:45:59 different AAC uses. 14:46:03 So, you can go in and also search, let's clear 14:46:06 that out. You can also search age group. You can 14:46:09 search by price. You can guess. The teacher 14:46:12 search free first, which I was a teacher. I 14:46:16 totally relate. School districts also don't want 14:46:18 to put a lot of money into a certain app that 14:46:23 costs $15 for 50 or 60,000 students to use it. So 14:46:26 that would get really expensive times $15. 14:46:28 So you can search by price. You can search by 14:46:30 skill. 14:46:33 If you are in an area that uses Common Core, you 14:46:36 can search by Common Core. Here in Texas we use 14:46:39 what is called texts because Texas has to be 14:46:41 different. So these are our standards for 14:46:43 learning. We don't use Common Core, we have our 14:46:45 own. So you can search by those if you're a 14:46:48 teacher here. You can search by grade level. And 14:46:51 this is the most important filter to me. Because 14:46:54 someone was talking earlier about how long -- well 14:46:56 both of you, several people mentioned how long app 14:46:59 versus been around. The app store is 0 years old 14:47:01 today, that's amazing. Ten years. 14:47:07 Apple has been doing it longer than Android. They 14:47:10 had it together. They omed with 500 apps. If you 14:47:12 are only an Android user, it is a good idea to 14:47:15 click Android and it will narrow those apps town 14:47:19 for you. Because the worst thing to find 14:47:21 something that you think is amazing and then for 14:47:24 it to say it's not compatible with your device. 14:47:29 So we always tell people, a lot of our seniors are 14:47:30 Android users. This is the first thing you need 14:47:33 to check when you go in here to search for things. 14:47:37 Another neat feature is that you -- you can see 14:47:39 where it says log out here. I am actually logged 14:47:43 in in my personal account. And once you do that, 14:47:45 you have your own little section over here that 14:47:50 says my Bridging Apps and you can create your own 14:47:53 app list and share those with people. My first 14:47:56 list is my app reviews. I have a hard time 14:47:58 keeping up with which app reviews I wrote after a 14:48:01 couple years of doing it so I put them all in 14:48:03 here. These are the ones for my daughter that I 14:48:06 either have used with her or that I am really 14:48:08 interested in using. So it will show the first 14:48:10 five here and then you can click see all and it 14:48:12 will take you to the whole list. You can make 14:48:15 this public. You can actually share it with 14:48:17 people. 14:48:21 We had, I had someone, an administrator 14:48:25 in a School District in a presentation tell me 14:48:27 that one she does for her teachers is she will 14:48:29 makes them all have a Bridging Apps account and 14:48:32 they have to mark, make a list of the apps that 14:48:34 they use for different situations. So especially 14:48:38 in my case I was a special education teacher, I 14:48:40 taught, I would have 30 different lesson plans for 14:48:44 a day easily because of all the different age 14:48:46 levels. So I might make a list that says fourth 14:48:51 grade reading. Third grade math. Whatever. And 14:48:54 then she makes them save those because all their 14:48:56 devices get taken up and they're cleaned during 14:49:00 the summer and they're completely erased so they 14:49:02 can be refreshed and start over. 14:49:05 And then when they come back in August, they don't 14:49:07 remember what they were using for certain 14:49:09 situations. 14:49:11 So, I thought that's brilliant. That's a 14:49:13 brilliant use of this. This is a free tool. And 14:49:15 she has taught all her teachers how to do that. 14:49:17 And then that saves them a little bit of stress at 14:49:19 the beginning of the year of having to recreate 14:49:20 the wheel. 14:49:23 So it's free to sign up for an account. You just 14:49:26 make an account using just a simple password and 14:49:29 your email address. And you can also save 14:49:31 searches. So you saw when I did that search 14:49:35 earlier, it shoals me these searches tparameters I 14:49:38 used for a search. So if I've gone through here 14:49:40 and I've taken the time to mark a dprad level, to 14:49:46 mark a certain TIQ I wanted. To mark an age, a 14:49:48 category, I can save that. So the next time I can 14:49:52 be like oh, that was what was I was searching for. 14:49:54 You can actually name it. That is what I was 14:50:03 search for that without recreating the wheel. 14:50:06 This is free. I say free a lot because people 14:50:08 sometimes don't believe that all the things we do 14:50:12 were grant-funded. We're an actual nonprofit 14:50:16 because Easterseals wlz nice enough to take us in. 14:50:18 So we're part of Easterseals. 14:50:22 And I'm trying to get, there we go. Screen 14:50:25 share's a little behind. So, again, you can, our 14:50:31 web page has all different kinds of be communities 14:50:35 on here. You can go and look for things, help for 14:50:38 seniors, veterans. We have a blog. If you follow 14:50:40 us on social media, you can see we're involved 14:50:43 with all the social media. We share a lot of tips 14:50:48 every day. I was talking with Brian are and 14:50:50 telling him yesterday that we've been able to 14:50:53 share these special series for staying at home, 14:50:57 video series. So we make a lot of videos 14:51:00 explaining different apps. One of ours was an app 14:51:04 about using Apple Pay. Because we're doing so 14:51:08 much contactless purchasing now, so how do you use 14:51:11 Apple Pay? Well it's not as easy as you might 14:51:14 think to initially set it up. So we have a video 14:51:14 about that. 14:51:18 And just little help and tips there. So all of 14:51:20 that you can reach from our website. And then 14:51:22 again you can check us out on social media for 14:51:33 sure. I am going to go back to my PowerPoint 14:51:39 here. Can you see my PowerPoint? 14:51:40 >> BRIAN NORTON: Yep. 14:51:44 >> Amy: Okay. So this is all of my contact 14:51:47 information. I know I'm finishing up a little bit 14:51:50 early, Brian, but I want to give anybody time for 14:51:52 questions if you, I don't know this is the very 14:51:55 end of the day if you have any questions that have 14:51:59 come in or if there's anything else. You are all 14:52:05 welcome to email me, call. Everything we do is we 14:52:08 do a lot of remote stuff anyway so the fact that a 14:52:11 lot of you are probably in Indiana and I'm in 14:52:13 Texas does not bother me. I'll be glad to have a 14:52:15 conversation with you. I'll be glad to help. I 14:52:19 know that Brian and all of them, Josh have been 14:52:22 really nice about linking a lot of our stuff to 14:52:28 their websites. We also do participate in the 14:52:31 podcasts that Josh does. So we always have a 14:52:35 segment on that called an app worth mentioning. 14:52:38 So Josh, if he's still on here, he jokes about the 14:52:41 Amies. We have another Amy. And the two of us 14:52:44 take turns doing those podcasts. So we are there. 14:52:47 And we do the same exact thing. We share an app 14:52:51 review, some little extra tips about it and things 14:52:53 like that. But this is my contact information if 14:52:54 any of you need it. 14:52:56 Brian, I was thinking during the other 14:52:58 presentations, if you want me to, I'm glad to 14:53:00 share this presentation if you just want to post 14:53:05 it or share it. Or at least to put a list of the 14:53:07 apps that we have talked about because I know for 14:53:10 me I was thinking earlier I want to know, I want 14:53:14 to see that list. Some of them that I was not 14:53:17 familiar with myself. So I'm glad, happy to put 14:53:20 that list or send it out to you in an easy format 14:53:22 for you to share however you want to do that. 14:53:24 >> BRIAN NORTON: Sure. One of the things that we 14:53:26 do is we'll collect all the PowerPoints from folks 14:53:29 and then we'll post those in PDF form in our 14:53:33 archive section of our website so folks can get to 14:53:36 those. So if you're able to do that, that would 14:53:37 be great. 14:53:40 >> Amy: Okay. Perfect, yeah. So any questions? 14:53:42 >> BRIAN NORTON: I don't see any questions coming 14:53:44 through. 14:53:46 Let me share my screen here. 14:53:53 Pop that up there. I want to bring folks he's 14:53:56 attentions back around. I'll kind of give people 14:54:00 an idea here. So there was a question will you 14:54:02 guys be sending the link to this ones it's 14:54:04 uploaded on the website to those of us who 14:54:07 attended? We certainly can. Usually I'll have it 14:54:09 up by next Wednesday or Thursday. It takes me a 14:54:12 few days to get the archive video edited down to 14:54:14 make sure the captions are available for folks. 14:54:17 And so give me a few days for that. But it's 14:54:20 usually up by the following week, midweek or so. 14:54:22 But, yeah, we can send that out through event 14:54:26 bright to let folks know that it's there. 14:54:31 We will be collecting all the PowerPoints and 14:54:35 making those available on our website. And so I 14:54:37 just want to draw your attention. So thank you, 14:54:40 first off, thank you for joining us today. Really 14:54:43 enjoyed having all of you here. 14:54:46 I have been so pleasantly surprised that we made 14:54:49 it through without too many or any, really, 14:54:51 tech 14:54:56 technical gives. That's amazing. I want to thank 14:54:59 our clinical team, Josh and Craig, Belva and Lisa, 14:55:02 Anna and Jim for joining us today. And Amy thank 14:55:06 you so much for being here from Bridging Apps. 14:55:07 Love your organization and love the partnership 14:55:10 that we have with you. Your contributions to our 14:55:14 podcasts and just what you're doing helping people 14:55:18 connect to apps, we think that is really great. 14:55:20 A couple of things that are just on the screen and 14:55:22 I'm going to leave these here for a little bit. 14:55:24 These are all the links that you should need first 14:55:27 and foremost to get your CEUs. But if you want to 14:55:30 check out our website go to eastersealstech.com. 14:55:34 Check out our loan library by going to INDATA.AT 14:55:38 T for all.com. Or there's the link to the 14:55:40 archived trainings. Been we'll have that up by 14:55:42 the middle of the week next week. 14:55:45 thank you guys 14:55:47 for joining us. I don't see so much of questions. 14:55:54 But lots of thank yous and great information and 14:55:56 so I'll keep this up and I'll keep my eye up on 14:55:58 the questions and answers and I'll keep answering 14:56:00 that. But thank you so much for joining l joining 14:56:02 us today, everyone.