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Student wearing blue headphones while using a laptop

Google Classroom

June 4, 2021

Digital classroom-management apps have been growing in popularity over the past few years, and even more so during the recent covid-19 pandemic. These apps allow teachers or parents to easily create and manage classroom content such as tests, quizzes, assignments, etc. Today we are going to take a quick look at Google’s classroom app, Google Classroom.

Top view of person using a laptop

Colchester Community Workshops Thankful for Digital Jumpstart

June 2, 2021

Colchester Community Workshops (CCW) provides valuable services to adults with intellectual disabilities in Truro, Nova Scotia. We were thrilled to receive a letter from CCW thanking Neil Squire for Digital Jumpstart training, which has helped their clients stay connected during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From the left side, top to bottom, the shareable shows a blue rectangle which includes seven accessibility icons. The accessibility icons represent motor skills impairment, sign language, speech impairment, mental/neurodiversity or learning impairment, visual impairment, hearing impairment and access or mobility impairment. The icons are followed by the text: Disability Inclusion 2021: Leaving No One Behind Share photos and videos of how you are celebrating National hashtag AccessAbility Week by using our hashtags. The text is followed by four images which include: one smiling indigenous man wearing dark sunglasses, a young woman smiling, a woman smiling in a pool and a woman speaking in sign language. The right side include the text: National AccessAbility Week. May 30 to June 5, 2021 Hashtags Accessible Canada and Hashtag AccessAbility Canada Wordmark

National AccessAbility Week 2021

May 30, 2021

It’s National AccessAbility Week! Join us from May 30 to June 5, 2021 to celebrate the valuable contributions of Canadians with disabilities; the accomplishments of individuals, communities and workplaces to remove barriers to accessibility and inclusion; and the ongoing work we all have to do to counter discrimination against persons with disabilities and promote a culture of inclusion.

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