{"id":1,"date":"2013-06-06T03:31:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T03:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/?p=1"},"modified":"2013-06-09T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T17:19:00","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/2013\/06\/06\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Apple iPad<\/span> is a portable device designed to allow <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">flexibility<\/span> in use. \u00a0This touch-screen tablet has numerous features beneficial in educational settings as well as an ever-growing list of available downloadable applications that individualize the device to fit specific students&#8217; needs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>iPads facilitate <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cANYTIME, ANYWHERE learning\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><em>(Brand &amp; Kinash, 2010)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These devices are designed for the mainstream, but have the potential to be customized for, accepted and adopted by students with special needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>The purpose of this wiki is to provide a source of information and support for school teams looking to integrate the iPad as Assistive Technology for students with special needs. \u00a0It specifically targets the use of the iPad for assistance with reading.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2010 Year of the iPad - Focus on Autism\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/31yEs9itueE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Apple iPad is a portable device designed to allow flexibility in use. \u00a0This touch-screen tablet has numerous features beneficial in educational settings as well as an ever-growing list of available downloadable applications that individualize the device to fit specific students&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/2013\/06\/06\/hello-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ipadsforliteracylearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}