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When discussing via email the group website, I chose to do the Special Education page. I thought it was a reasonable assignment, not too difficult and not too easy. After creating the animation for the previous week’s assignment, I thought it fit well with the Special education page. It seems to reflect the feelings of many Special Ed teachers that I know. I found the link to CAST in the resource section of our courseware and although I did not originally know what it was, I found their research on literacy for students with significant cognitive disabilities interesting. I am glad, as a special education teacher, to have that resource to revisit as needed. I did not originally know where to find research about use of technology with Special needs students. I tried several search strings on Google before I found the article in the Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention. As a Specialized Support teacher with multiple students with Autism, I found the article interesting and useful. The frustration with that particular article, however, was in posting it to the website. I was unable to directly place the link in the website and therefore had to place the link to the Journal archive with directions of how to get to the article. In my search, I found a website for University of Buffalo’s Assistive Technology Training project. It has good information on the use of assistive technology to help special needs students with multiple content areas. This is another website I can use as a professional reference. I likely would not have found these pages if not for this assignment. In creating the assigned page, I had to revisit the CRAP principles. Originally, I placed information on the page and then went back to revise for design principles. I plan to use the design principles as well as the animation on my district webpage. If I get to work with resource or inclusion again, I would like to teach students to create a website to showcase their work. =References:= //School of Public Health and Health Professions - University of Buffalo//. (2005). Retrieved from Assistive Technology Training Online: http://atto.buffalo.edu/ Dalton, B., & Zeph, L. (2003-2006). //Center for Applied Special Technology//. Retrieved from Center for Applied Special Technology: http://www.cast.org/research/projects/lbd.html Goldman, T. R., & LeBlanc, L. A. (2004). //The Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention//. Retrieved from The Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention: http://www.baojournal.com/JEIBI/JEIBI-VOL-1/JEIBI-1-2.pdf