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Turn your text, images, movies and sounds into switch-accessible stories, slide shows and simple onscreen activities

Create cause-and-effect activities which are automatically accessible using a mouse, whiteboard, touch monitor, IntelliKeys, keyboard or switches.

Make talking books starring your students, or a slide show of a recent trip. Put that digital camera to good use!

Activities are easy to make and easy to play! Each activity has a sequence of onscreen pages which can have a picture, a video, some writing, music or recorded speech. You can use a simple switch, the computer’s spacebar, the mouse buttons or IntelliKeys to turn the pages.

SwitchIt! Maker 2 is especially designed so that children can make activities as part of a lesson. It’s that easy! The simple editor helps even young children and those with severe learning difficulties to make their own stories as part of a creative class activity. It’s ideal for making group activities using an interactive whiteboard too!

Click here to see how it’s easy to create activities in SwitchIt! Maker 2

New in SwitchIt! Maker 2:

• Now even easier to use!
  
• Choose from different text sizes and page layouts
  
• Export and import features let you transfer your activities to other computers or onto CD-ROM, etc.
  
• Includes over 1,500 useful example files, including a selection of PCS symbols from Mayer-Johnson and Widgit (Rebus) Symbols from Widgit, clip-art pictures, sample videos and music.
  
• A wider range of image and sound file formats can be imported, plus video!
  
  • Images: jpg, bmp, gif, png, tif, wmf, emf
    
  • Video: avi, wmv, mov, mpeg
    
  • Sound: wav, aiff, mp3
  
  
• Play a sequence of activities without teacher intervention
  
• Activity editor has symbols and an onscreen keyboard; suitable for young children and those with severe learning difficulties.

SwitchIt! Maker 2 also includes:

• a freely distributable “player” version so students can take their activities home
  
• a selection of ready made activities is provided to get you started

Activities that you can create include:

• A slide show tour of your school or town, to send to your overseas partner schools
  
• A pictorial journal of a class trip to the farm, the museum, the fire station – anywhere!
  
• Pictures or videos of a class drama project. Students can record their lines straight into SwitchIt! Maker 2. (This is highly motivating for reluctant speakers.)
  
• A storybook with your students’ own pictures
  
• A slide show with photos of children in a class, to give to a new child who is soon to join
  
• A sequence of photos and symbols showing the order of activities through the day
  
• A ‘big and small’ activity using photos of familiar food
  
• A Kim’s game activity with photos of familiar food
  
• A sequence of simple images and videos for visual stimulus with students with profound learning difficulties
  
• A multimedia ‘life story’, CV or ‘Communication Profile’ for a student about to start work experience
  
• A self-running rolling presentation of children at work for display in your school’s reception area on open days/parents’ evenings
  
• A demonstration of how to make a cup of tea, using photos or videos.

Customisable Options

SwitchIt! Maker 2 has a range of easy-to-use options that allow you to tailor the activities
to your student’s individual needs.

• Sort activities
  Select the activities you would like to be played and place them in the required order. This is useful for students to be able to work through a set of activities independently.
• Sound and video options
  Decide if you would like sound and video to be played automatically when a page is displayed, or in response to the user’s input. Also choose whether the user must wait for any sound or video to finish playing before they can move onto the next page. (This is very useful if the user has a habit of pressing the switch/mouse/spacebar indiscriminately.)
• Delay
  SwitchIt! Maker 2 has a useful ‘pre-acceptance delay’ function. This is ideal for students who make brief involuntary switch presses which you don’t want the program to recognise, for example as a result of tremor. If you set the delay to 0.5 seconds, the program will only accept switch presses that last longer than 0.5 seconds.
• Page number display
  Decide whether to have the page numbers of your activity displayed on the screen as it is being played.
• Colour options
  Set the colour of the text and background throughout your activities. This can be useful to create high contrast colour combinations, for students with visual impairment. It can also be useful to quickly and easily display an activity without the accompanying text, without deleting it all! Simply set the background and text to the same colour.
• Slideshow mode
  Use this option if you would like your activity to run as a slideshow or a presentation, for example, in the background at a parents’ evening.

See SwitchIt! Maker 2 review by Priory Woods School, UK

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Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	SwitchIt! Maker 2 - Single User Licence
	IN825	CD-ROM	Mac OS X, Win 2000, Win XP, Win Vista, Windows 7	$159.00	$0.00
	SwitchIt! Maker 2 - 5 User Pack
	IN825.1	CD-ROM	Mac OS X, Win 2000, Win XP, Win Vista, Windows 7	$279.00	$0.00
	SwitchIt! Maker 2 - Site Licence
	IN825.3S	CD-ROM	Mac OS X, Win 2000, Win XP, Win Vista, Windows 7	$409.00	$0.00