Posted by 14 on the 12th February, 2010
Hurrah! At last Mayer-Johnson UK and LTS have got their act together and brought out a cheap deal on BoardMaker for Scotland. CALL has been pushing for this. BoardMaker purchasing information has been pretty muddled lately, so the new clarity is welcome, as well as the discount. The offer is o...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 4th February, 2010
Procurement Scotland have negotiated a good price on the Toshiba NB200 Netbook (Procurement Scotland quick guide is available) for purchasers in Scottish public sector organisations. There is a 3G (allows you to connect to the internet via a mobile SIM card) and non-3G version being supplied with th...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 28th January, 2010
Another 54 books were added to the Books for All Scotland Database today. There are 23 new books in PDF which have been produced by CALL Scotland. LTS funded the production of these books, which are scanned PDF copies of third and fourth year textbooks from various publishers including Heinemann...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 26th January, 2010
The Books for All programme is about learning resources in accessible, alternative formats for people who cannot access standard printed books. Sometimes this is due to, for example, severe dyslexia, visual impairment, blindness or physical impairment. In these case it is self-evident that the r...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd January, 2010
SQA have put up the 2009 adapted digital past papers on their web site for anyone to download. They cover all levels from Intermediate through to Advance Higher with a wide range of different subjects. This means you can now download papers from 2007, 2008 and 2009 for revision and practice. In r...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 21st January, 2010
For People Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication Time: Saturday 13th March 2010, 11am - 4pm Location: CALL Scotland, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh Webpage: Technology Discovery Day It's FREE and refreshments will be provided. Drop in, or stay all day! The day is run by expert staff from...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 20th January, 2010
Another opportunity to learn how to make Books for All! Learning & Teaching Scotland, on behalf of the Scottish Government, would like to invite you to send a representative from your local authority to attend Books for All CPD event at Stirling Management Centre. This free CPD is a fo...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 18th January, 2010
A new version of FineReader has just been released and the basic OCR accuracy seems to be much better than the previous version 9 (which was actually much worse than version 8 - we carried on using 8 because 9 was so bad). Here's a screenshot of a PDF image that was recognised using FineReader 9:...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 18th January, 2010
Were you lucky enough to get an iPhone or an iPod Touch for Christmas? Perhaps your school was able to scrape together funds to buy one? In addition to all the music and videos that you can download from iTunes, you'll find a bewildering array of apps that you can use, covering everything from tun...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 13th January, 2010
WH Smith are selling eBooks half price until 15 January. There are over 100,000 available and so you can get your hands on say the Twilight series for £4 each (no thanks), Rebus novels by Ian Rankin (that's more like it) as well as books by the likes of Barack Obama or Jeremy Clarkson. ...
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