iOS for O&M

Joe Dlugo, COMS

Using iDevices to enhance orientation

and mobility instruction

Designed Assembled Delivered

With iOS

• Draw-on maps

• Book Creator

• Doodlecast

• Monocular training

• iMovie

• GPS

Keynote Interact With Your Maps

Keynote

• The Mac version of PowerPoint

• Clean, easy to use interface

• $9.99 or free if you have an Apple product purchased after October 2013

• Draw-on feature

Inkpad Make a Hi-Contrast Map

InkPad

• Vector drawing app

• Doesn't work like a pen and paper

• Bit of a learning curve

• Free!

Book CreatorCreate Tales of O&M Lore

Book Creator• Simple to make eBooks

• Easily drop images, sounds, change colors, stylize text

• Excellent for at-home study, fun lesson supplements, visual efficiency activities

• $4.99

Book Creator How-to:support.redjumper.net

http://youtu.be/zP_z-Pvfft8

Distance Ed

Doodlecast Pro

• Record a presentation

• Interact with images as you talk

• Great for supplementary education or if student misses lesson

• $4.99

Take the Guesswork Out of Monocular Training

HookUpz Adapter

Tripod Mount

Tripod

Gotta Get the Gear

iMovieMake your student a star

iMovie iMovie can be used to instantly record and edit a film. Students become the star that must speak about the subject matter clearly and correctly to the camera. Multiple takes offer the opportunity of repetition.

Share the learning.Have infinite amounts of observers on your lessons. You can share the video with parents and staff.

Quick resultsCreate something exciting in one lesson's time.

Gotta Get the Gear

& a rubber band (to tighten the windmuff)

iMovie How-to:https://www.apple.com/support/ios/imovie/

http://youtu.be/q1DP6mYppgM

GPS

Voiceover Skills for O&M Specialists

Gotta Get the Gear

My Take on GPS for Walking Travel

• Designed for Car travel where hundreds of feet are covered in seconds.

• Expect accuracy to be spotty, especially in cities where it is needed most.

• Inaccuracies can be frustrating for all but the most academic students.

• Best uses: knowing what’s around and reassuring yourself you’re not totally lost.

• All new GPS lesson activities - Getting Your Student Started with iPhone GPS by: Me!

Sendero GPS LookAround

• Free

• Most simple to use

• Super power: introducing GPS

iMove• Free

• Advanced features - my personal most useful GPS app

• Super power: speech notes

Ariadne

• $5.99

• For the advanced and experienced iPhone user (has a lot of options)

• Super power: teaching address systems

BlindSquare• $29.99

• Surprisingly intuitive, feature-filled GPS app

• Super powers: Link easily to public transit routes

Seeing Eye Sendero GPS

• Subscription based

• A true full-featured GPS

• Super power: turn by turn route travel, hi-contrast POI readout

Heare

• Design and share routes on Heare website

• Great idea - but I haven't had success with it.

• Locate nearby places and write reviews on accessibility

AbleRoad

• Not a dedicated app for VI

• Can perform walking route travel

• Superpower: Free!

AroundMe

Nearby Explorer

http://tech.aph.org/fieldtest

Official User Manuals

• Seeing Eye: www.senderogroup.com/support/supportseeingeye.htm

• BlindSquare: blindsquare.com/instructions/

• Ariadne: www.ariadnegps.eu/user-manual/

• LookAround: senderogroup.com/support/supportiphone.htm