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This radio interview with Matthew Shifrin covers his new projects, including virtual reality, comic book access, rock climbing, and a podcast.

In this TEDx talk, Matthew Shifrin shares his adventures traveling alone overseas, converting Lego instructions for children who are Blind/Visually Impaired (BVI), and working with MIT scientists to bring an immersive superhero-comic experience to readers who are BVI.

Matthew Shifrin is an advocate for what is possible for people who are Blind/Visually Impaired. He has written braille and audio Lego instructions for the Lego Group, given TEDx presentations, and has several YouTube and Vimeo videos.

With UAbacus, add and subtract numbers using the "logic method" for abacus computation. Practice computation skills, get help with each step as needed, and verify the correct answer.

This app provides inspirational prompts to draw characters, creatures, objects, environments, and situations. The prompts are designed to challenge skills, captivate imagination, and push users out of their comfort zone.

With iAnnotate, users can read, annotate, and share PDFs, Microsoft Office files, images, and web pages. Use  iAnnotate to take notes, sign agreements, highlight documents, insert stamps, and more. iPhone support, iPad Pro and multitasking support, automatic Apple Pencil detection, shape annotations, improved web markup, enhanced support for OneDrive (and OneDrive for Business), iCloud Drive, and iCloud backup.

This iPad app offers voice-guided meditations on a variety of topics dealing with the stresses and challenges of day-to-day life. Includes 40 free meditations and 14 landscapes.

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University offers free writing resources, such as citations generators (APA, MLA, Chicago), and instructional materials. Students will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction. Please note: This website has pop-ups.

Learn programming and build websites and apps in just five minutes per day. Learn programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Java, HTML, CSS, Swift, Kotlin, C++, SQL, PHP, and more. The programming courses and lessons are suitable for everyone, even with no prior coding knowledge or experience.

Seven computer programming courses are offered on the Khan Academy website: Intro to JS; Intro to HTML/CSS; Intro to SQL; Advanced JS Games and Visualizations; Advanced JS Natural Simulations; HTML/JS Webpages; and HTML/JS Interactive Webpages.