Posted by Robert Stewart on the 29th November, 2010
The 2010 Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books is an innovative nationwide reading project in which children and young people from every corner of Scotland read and vote for their favourite Scottish children's books of the year. Last year: Over 31,000 children were involved and a...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd November, 2010
During November 2010, all Primary 1 children in Scotland will receive a free copy of Manfred the Baddie from the Scottish Book Trust. Manfred won the 0-7 age category of the Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books last year, and over 11,000 children voted in this age group. The books will ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 18th November, 2010
We are pleased to say that we will soon be able to provide accessible digital copies of the nine books shortlisted for the 2010 Royal Mail Book Awards. The books have been produced in cooperation with the publishers and The Scottish Book Trust. Last year over 31,000 children were involved in the a...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 8th November, 2010
SQA have made all the 2010 adapted digital papers available on the SQA web site. There are over 400 papers covering a wide range of subjects. These past papers are ideal for revision and practice, for pupils who are going to be sitting prelims with digital papers, or are intending to 'go digital'...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 2nd November, 2010
A new version of WordTalk is now available for Windows 7 (32-bit). Unfortunately the Windows 7 (64-bit) version is not yet ready. WordTalk is a free text-to-speech plugin developed for use with Microsoft Word. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as i...
Posted by 14 on the 29th October, 2010
Kids with physical disabilities often need to use 'scanning' (and switching) to access their communication and/or writing programs. Scanning is a widely misunderstood word. A good definition was coined by David Colven and Simon Judge in 'Switch Access to Technology'. They say: "I...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 15th October, 2010
The Scottish Voice has been very well received by the Scottish educational community and we know that she is being used to listen to: SQA digital exams; novels; digital textbooks; Microsoft Word documents; resources on Glow. She is also used by children who can’t...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 14th October, 2010
Issue 27 of 'New in CALL', the free news, views and events leaflet is now available for download. Inside this issue: Print Disability Licence; The Royal Mail Book Awards; iPad or Kindle; Augmentative Communication in Practice: Scotland study day; 2010-2011 CPD Calendar. ...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 1st October, 2010
We've recently found out about the Cool Tools for Schools wiki. This is an amazing resource, with lots of free / online tools that can be used by teachers and pupils (assuming they are allowed access online). Resources are categorised under the following headings: Presentation Tools ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 14th September, 2010
Over 100 textbooks (mainly for the English curriculum) and novels in Word 2003 format are now available from RNIB. The books were produced as a result of the Accessible Resources Pilot project led by Dolphin and Inclusive Technology. There is a list of the books available on the RNIB web site. T...
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