Assistive Technology Blog Carnival

Assistive Technology Blog Carnival #4, Issue: "Grab Bag"
Deadline: June 27 for submissions; Will be up June 30.

The next edition of the AT Blog Carnival, our 4th, will be out on June 30. We are calling for submissions by June 27 from those of you who have blogs and would like to submit a post on AT. This issue is a "grab bag" because we want to open this wide for folks to share whatever they have in their post archive or something new they would like to share on assistive technology. As submissions come in, I will group them as well as I can into categories. So, we want to hear what you have to say. What have you been learning about AT lately? What new gadget has you intrigued? What new area do you think is a frontier in research and development for servicing disability?

AT Blog Carnival

I have to admit I didn't "get" the blog carnival thing at first. A carnival? Of blogs? Huh?

As a blogger I am sometimes shamelessly out-of-touch. Then Ricky Buchanan of AT Mac e-mailed me to let me know she was submitting my post about taking my class to see Les Mis to the AT Blog Carnival. Given that my life was (an continues to be) a little out of whack I am not even sure if I replied to that compliment (sorry Ricky).

Then I checked out the AT Blog Carnival website, it turns out it is written by the author of a blog I have been following on my RSS reader for sometime, Lon Thornberg who writes No Limits to Learning and No Limits to Life. (He also has My Reading Chair, with text-to-speech readings of books for children.) In the end I submitted another post of mine, Part Two of "My Voice is My Power" series about AAC. (I couldn't figure out if Ricky submitted the Les Mis entry for March or April.)

In the end the blog carnival provided me with some links to some great blog entries and some new blogs to add to my RSS feeds. Here is a quick list of the entries submitted (but you should check out the Blog Carnival site to read about why the each post was submitted).:

• From my blog: "My Voice is My Power: Part Two" (then read about the same individual in My Voice is My Power: Part Four) and Les Mis
• From Ricky's AT Mac Blog: "Did you know your Mac could do that?" and "Assisitive Technology Makes a Difference: Dustin's Story"
• From Ron Graham's Access Ability Blog: "Yahoo Acknowledges Inaccessible Content"
  
• From Dr. Barbara Boucher's Blog TherExtras: "Assistive Technology and Me"
• From Jason Voiovich at "The State of the Brand"
• From Paul Nastch at Assistive Gaming
• From Dustin Oakley at The Crass Pip on AT Blogging
• Craig Phillips, Second Chance to Live
• Heather Johnson on Audio Book College Content
• Nick from Understanding Media on Podcasting in the Classroom

I hope next month we can look forward to more great entries, maybe from the likes of Paul Hamilton, Karen Janowski or Sam Sennott.