Happy New Year | Inclusive Learning Technologies Conference 2012 Update
Posted in Conference 2012
Eliza Bale January 31, 2012
Eliza Bale January 31, 2012
Welcome back – I hope you have enjoyed your much deserved break! We are all back on deck for 2012 and have literally hit the ground running with conference preparation. Here is the latest! Session selections now open Delegates are now taking advantage of selecting their preferred sessions. As we promised in December, session selections have been open since early January. What a way …
Useful FREE online resource
Posted in Tools & Resources
Ian Bean December 27, 2011
Ian Bean December 27, 2011
FREE Image Generators This month we’re highlighting this great set of online tools to allow you and your students to create a range of images using your own text. Create a newspaper clipping by simply adding a headline and a story. Great starter for desktop publishing lessons. Lots to choose from; movie clapper boards, banners and even a cigarette packet you can add …
More resources from the Spectronics team including PowerPoint presentations
Posted in Tools & Resources
Barbara Landsberg December 22, 2011
Barbara Landsberg December 22, 2011
We are constantly finding new ways of sharing great articles, links and resources with you, with the Spectronics Blog being the central place for display of all of our resources. We are also adding posts by new Guest Bloggers – including Gerry Kennedy from Australia and Ian Bean from the UK. Did you know you can now sign up to be notified by …
iAdapter for iPad no longer available from Spectronics
Posted in Accessories, Apps and Mobile Learning
Barbara Landsberg December 21, 2011
Barbara Landsberg December 21, 2011
The iPad is attracting a lot of attention in the special ed/learning support arena at present. Some considered. Some media hype. But it definitely does have a place in the special ed technology toolkit. One of the areas in which it falls down is its volume in social settings for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) users. It needs additional amplification to make it more …
Play School Art Maker FREE
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning
Ian Bean December 21, 2011
Ian Bean December 21, 2011
If you’re working with younger children you won’t want to miss this great free app. Create animated scenes with your favourite toys from Play School. Choose a background, add the toys and move them around to create your ‘story’. The app records the movements and sounds automatically then plays them back for all to enjoy. For more information about this app please visit their …
Touch Skills Progression
Posted in Tools & Resources
Ian Bean December 19, 2011
Ian Bean December 19, 2011
Colleagues around the world are using the ‘Switch Progression Road Map’ that I wrote during my time at Inclusive Technology to help them assess, teach and record switching skills. Hilary Norton, an advisory teacher for ICT/SEN and inclusion wrote in an article for MJO, “This book should be in every classroom.” In my latest book, ‘Touch Skills Progression’, I explore the skills students with …
FREE Online Training
FREE Online Webinars Ian is delivering a series of one hour online webinars in association with Ablenet, a leading US supplier of assistive technology and communication devices. Taking part is really easy, simply register for the sessions you would like to see by clicking the links below. Ten minutes before the session, log in and call the 0800 freephone number and you’re ready to …
Amazing Sensory Guru technologies now here in ANZ
Posted in New Technologies
Barbara Landsberg December 15, 2011
Barbara Landsberg December 15, 2011
Multi-sensory Room technologies have not changed dramatically for many years, but Sensory Guru in the UK is now ramping it up in amazing ways! They are turning around largely passive environments, offering options for active participation and for a progression of skills development within a multi-sensory environment. The Magic Carpet interactive projection system is just one of their new technologies. The system projects interactive …
Boardmaker Studio: Multi-site licensing and no more CD in the drive!
Posted in Tools & Resources
Barbara Landsberg December 12, 2011
Barbara Landsberg December 12, 2011
Boardmaker Studio, the first update to Boardmaker for a number of years, was released late last year. It is becoming very popular now, so it might be timely to take another look at why you might consider upgrading your current copies of Boardmaker or Boardmaker Plus! to Boardmaker Studio. What are the advantages of Boardmaker Studio? No CD in the drive is required to …
One, two, three… NO!
Posted in Techniques & Tips
Ian Bean December 8, 2011
Ian Bean December 8, 2011
Many commercial switch training software programs feature a ‘switch building’ level where the learner is required to press the switch a number of times in order to ‘build’ either a pattern, picture or scene. With each press of the switch, another part of the image is ‘built’ until at the last press in the sequence the complete image is revealed and usually animated …
