1. Digital Access By: Ariana Santos 9A

14. Hand Injuries Hand injuries can happen to just about anyone and they are a major disability for people who suffer from them. The injuries can vary from simple missing fingers, to a whole arm that is useless. Technologies have now been made to help these people so that everyone can use computers.

21. 1. Always Have Someone Who is Good with Computers Around the Children When Using them During School.

23. Computers are supposed to be fun and useful, not frustrating. Get someone to help with the children so that they don’t have to experience frustrating roadblocks and learn how do deal with computer problems.

24. 2. Make using computers FUN!

26. Getting children to enjoy using computers is the first step to making them more comfortable with them

27. 3. Use computers often

29. The more they use computers, the more comfortable they are with them.

30. 4. If you have any students with special needs, get them the help they need so that they can use the computers as well

32. Just because someone has special needs does not mean they should be excluded from computer activities.

33. 5. Computers are there to help you, so use them yourself

35. The first step you have in making your students and children enjoy using computers is to use them yourself.

36. Making an online survey, I found some information that was very helpful.

37. From asking the students in my class and other surfers on the internet, I found out some useful information. These were some of my results:

39. When they were asked about whether they had any of the following programs, the results were:

42. This is not right, each category should have 100% because these programs are very important. How can you make these figures go up?

43. Easy, Fight For Digital Access! Get these Programs in your home or classroom and get connected!

44. Thank you for your patience and for listening to my presentation. You too can change the world with one simple act.

45. Bibliography: Ribble, Mike, and Gerald Bailey. &quot;Digital Access.&quot; Digital Citizenship . 26 May 2006 <http://coe.k-state.edu/digitalcitizenship/Access.htm>. &quot;Dyslexia.&quot; Wikipedia . 29 Oct. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia>. Asaravala, Amit. &quot;Blind Get an Earful of Spam.&quot; Wired . 22 June 2004 <http://www.wired.com/science/ discoveries/news/2004/06/63934>. &quot;Google Canada.&quot; Google . 29 Oct. 2007 <http://www.google.ca>. &quot;Google USA.&quot; Google . 29 Oct. 2007 <http://www.google.com>. &quot;Google Germany.&quot; Google . 29 Oct. 2007 <http://www.google.de>. &quot;Google Portugal.&quot; Google . 29 Oct. 2007 <http://www.google.pt>. &quot;Google Spain.&quot; Google . 29 Oct. 2007 <http://www.google.es>. &quot;New Typeface to Help Dyslexics.&quot; Wired . 21 Oct. 2003 <http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/ news/2003/10/60834>. &quot;The Injured Hand.&quot; Union Memorial Hospital . 29 Oct. 2007 <http://www.unionmemorial.org/ npt.cfm?id=969>. Gilden, James. &quot;Spanish-language option may give sites jump on competition.&quot; The Times . 18 Jan. 2004 <http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-tr-internet18jan18,0,1326926.story?coll>. Wikipedia . 29 Oct. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>. Wikipedia . 29 Oct. 2007 <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauptseite>. Wikipedia . 29 Oct. 2007 <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accueil>. Wikipedia . 29 Oct. 2007 <http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portada>. Lindsay, Julie. QA Grade 9 IT . Wikispaces. 28 Oct. 2007 <http://qataracademy-it.wikispaces.com/ Grade+9>. A Thank you to Mrs. Lindsay who’s support and advice guided me through this project. Thank you to my mother, who allowed me to use her classroom for today.