Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 12th September, 2014
16/7/18: We regret that Hodder Gibson textbooks have been temporarily (we hope) removed from the Database at the request of the publisher, following alleged illegal use. We hope that they will be available again in time for the 2018/19 academic session. Rebecca here in CALL has uploaded another 11 H...
Posted by Gillian McNeill on the 11th September, 2014
I noticed an e-newsletter from HelpKidzLearn sitting in my inbox today which mentioned the arrival of some new activities. I hadn’t visited this site for a while, so decided to investigate further……. HelpKidzLearn really is a great online resource for teachers and par...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 10th September, 2014
Our grateful thanks to Tom Strang and colleagues at TeeJay for providing us with PDFs of their new National 4 and 5 maths textbooks. The CfE Books N4-1, N4-2, N4+ and N5 are now available from the Books for All Scotland Database. The books are PDF files and we have added bookmarks to aid navigati...
Posted by Joanna Courtney on the 3rd September, 2014
The shortlisted titles for this year's Scottish Children's Book Awards were announced on August 28th by the Scottish Book Trust. The Bookbug books are Princess Penelope and the Runaway Kitten by Alison Murray, Robot Rumpus by Sean Taylor and Ross Collins and Lost for Words by Natalie Russell...
Posted by 14 on the 3rd September, 2014
Hey - an exciting new project by CALL Scotland friend and ex-Steering Group member Grant Douglas, with 4c Design. It’s the brilliantly designed S’up Spoon that allows people with cerebral palsy or unwanted hand/upper body movements from other causes, to load up wi...
Posted by 14 on the 1st September, 2014
Widgit Vocab Widgit has just launched a new series of iPad apps called 'Widgit Vocab'. These apps introduce and develop basic vocabulary around a range of different themes, and are specifically designed to help extend a user's vocabulary range with list...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 28th August, 2014
For a few years now we have been distributing digital versions of Hodder Gibson textbooks on CD, and the service has become increasingly popular with schools. We're very pleased to say that the publishers have now given us permission to make the books available for download via the Books for ...
Posted by 14 on the 12th August, 2014
A variant of Personal Communication Passport has recently been published, designed for use by people with autism who might need hospital treatment and/or who need to communicate their needs to doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. This was developed by Baroness Angela Brow...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 6th August, 2014
Balabolka is a very powerful, free text to speech program that can be used for a lot of different tasks, including basic text to speech, changing the appearance of text to make it more accessible, reading eBooks and creating audio files. This blog will focus on the use of Balabolka to read eBooks in...
Posted by 14 on the 5th August, 2014
Communicative competence was defined by Janice Light (1989) as: "– the state of being functionally adequate in daily communication and of having sufficient knowledge, judgment, and skills to communicate effectively in daily life." Light's mo...
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