Posts and Resources by Katie Lyon
Movenote – the move to visual instruction
Posted in Teaching and Learning
Katie Lyon May 16, 2013
Katie Lyon May 16, 2013
The Spectronics Consultancy Team have just learned about a great little app called Movenote and we thought we would share our ideas for using it to provide alternative instruction for your students with diverse learning needs. Movenote allows you to add a video of yourself teaching (or of anything for that matter) to any photos or slide content and …
Eye can now use Clicker 6 with Mouse Dwell
Posted in Techniques & Tips
Katie Lyon May 11, 2013
Katie Lyon May 11, 2013
We have been updating you for a while now about the many improvements to Clicker in the latest version – Clicker 6! But one that we haven’t explained in great detail is the ability to use the new “Mouse Dwell” access option, which allows the Clicker Sets, onscreen keyboard and predictor to be accessed via a mouse or …
Texthelp Toolmatcher: Getting the most out of Read&Write GOLD
Posted in Tools & Resources
Katie Lyon May 9, 2013
Katie Lyon May 9, 2013
For those of you out there utilising all of the many great features of Texthelp Read&Write GOLD you will already know there is something for just about everyone! But I’m sure there are many people who are still just using the basics of the program for one or two students in their classrooms and are maybe not aware …
Speak Selection – you just have to know about this!
Posted in Accessibility and Access, Apps and Mobile Learning
Katie Lyon April 20, 2013
Katie Lyon April 20, 2013
Speak Selection is one of the most exciting and useful accessibility features on the iPad. It has been around for a while now, since iOS 5 in fact, but has continued to improve with time. We had mentioned it in Accessibility Settings in iOS: access to i-devices explaine d but since this time there have been more features added …
Downloading ANY video to your camera roll – easy as!
Posted in Tips and Tricks
Katie Lyon April 3, 2013
Katie Lyon April 3, 2013
Having just returned from my first round of iPad workshops across the country, I can’t tell you how many new tips we have picked up from everyone! There really are some clever educators out there implementing iPads into their classrooms for students with diverse learning needs. Be prepared for some follow up blog posts such as this one, …
New Updates all around for Clicker.
Posted in Teaching and Learning
Katie Lyon February 18, 2013
Katie Lyon February 18, 2013
There have been lots of updates and new releases happening for many of the Crick Software solutions – I thought I had better bring you up to speed with some of the new improvements. APPS You may have heard me talking about the newish Clicker apps in recent blog posts such as New Crick apps – from …
The Clicker apps in ACTION!
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning, Opinion
Katie Lyon January 17, 2013
Katie Lyon January 17, 2013
By now, you may have heard about the new Clicker apps bought to you by Crick Software. If not, you can check out my recent blog post New Crick apps – from the masters that bring you Clicker! for more information. They really have some great features to support writing. Clicker Sentences is an early writing tool that …
It’s SALE time on these great apps!
Posted in Sources for Quality App Reviews
Katie Lyon December 20, 2012
Katie Lyon December 20, 2012
The festive cheer just doesn’t stop at this time of year! It’s SALE time on some of the apps we think are really great and we wanted you to know about it! We have just learnt that tbox apps are taking 50% off their therapy apps, Minimal Pair Pack and Odd One Out Pack, until the end of …
New Crick apps – from the masters that bring you Clicker!
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning
Katie Lyon December 14, 2012
Katie Lyon December 14, 2012
“Wow!” “OMG!” “These are amazing!” “I am in love!” These were some of the comments from our Consultancy team when we were lucky enough to see the pre-release of the new Clicker apps in action – you might think we need to get out more, but they really are great! When Crick do something, they do it well …
Drop everything! Dropbox is more than you think!!!
Posted in Teaching and Learning
Katie Lyon December 11, 2012
Katie Lyon December 11, 2012
With more documents, presentations, pictures and movies being stored on more desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets every day it is important to have an organised file management system to avoid going around in circles and wasting time. Particularly when working collaboratively with others, or within a classroom setting, being organised can be the difference between working smarter and …
