Teaching by Design: Using Your Computer to Create Materials for Students with Learning Differences [With CD-ROM]

Finally a book that shows you how to make those nifty games that are normally unaffordable for many teachers. In a heartfelt way, Kim Voss pours all of her knowledge about teaching special students, primarily from her experience with her daughter Ashley, and mixes it with an understandable dose of technology. The end product is amazing! I read the book, took a breath, and tackled each project without quitting once. Now I have materials that are professional and appropriate. Say good-bye to handwritten flash cards and stickies forever!

Teaching By Design: Using Your Computer To Create Materials For Students With Learning Differences is a straightforward "how-to" guide to quickly and easily crafting customized educational tools with the resources of a basic personal computer at one's disposal. Written especially for teachers working with students who have learning disabilities or impairments, Teaching by Design covers how to control variables in font size, images, and layout, why larger font isn't always better, a smorgasbord of easy-to-make projects ranging from color/shape/size lotto to interactive spelling cards to fill-in-the-blank word magnets and decals, and much more. The materials presented are designed to make learning as easy and intuitive as possible without excess distractions, and as such are applicable to all children whether learning disables or not. An accompanying CD-ROM of templates to simplify the process rounds out this invaluable, user-friendly resource recommended especially for instructors, but also useful to parents and lay people looking for educational games to play with developing young minds.

Excellent templates and web site resources.....better if you have a graphics program like Illustrator, CorelDRAW 0r Freehand.