Free Boardmaker Resources
Posted by Claire Harrison on the 23rd February, 2017
Topic themed resources are available to download from the Boardmaker website. For schools using Boardmaker Studio or Boardmaker Online, those of you who have searched for activities on their community sharing site boardmakeronline.com will know the challenge in wading through the ma...
Stop the Clicker stutter
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd February, 2017
Last week I was working with a learner in primary 4 who has recently started using Clicker for writing and recording. He accesses the on-screen keyboard with a joystick to control the mouse pointer, and a separate switch to click the mouse button. But there's a big problem - when he activates th...
Attainment, ASN, technology and the Pupil Equity Fund
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 20th February, 2017
Scottish Government recently announced the new Pupil Equity Funding scheme which will provide £120 million direct to 2,300 schools across Scotland. The funding is based on the number of learners who are eligible and registered for free school meals and will be around £1200 per pupil. Sho...
Giving your Kindle App a Voice
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 15th February, 2017
Text to speech has been available for some Kindle book readers for a number of years, but if you wanted to add this feature to the Kindle apps for a Windows or Mac computer, this involved an incredible amount of faffing about. All this has changed with the latest versions of the apps, available from...
Technology and Dyslexia: half day seminar
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 31st January, 2017
The CALL Scotland team will be sharing their knowledge and expertise of a wide range of hardware, software and apps that can support dyslexic learners at a half day seminar on 23rd March at the University of Edinburgh. The use of assistive technology can help raise attainment for students with addit...
Additions to the CALL Library
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 31st January, 2017
CALL Scotland has a small library space in our offices at the Moray House School of Education in Edinburgh. The CALL library includes books, journals, conference papers, DVDs, videos on: Augmentative and Alternative Communication Symbol sets Assistive Technology ICT for Education iPads and Mobile D...
New Resources from SENICT
Posted by Claire Harrison on the 27th January, 2017
Many of you who work with learners who use switches as an access method will be familiar with Ian Bean, who over the years has produced many fabulous switch accessible activities. I’m sure I only have to mention ‘The Dancing Hippo’ and you’ll find yourself absent-mindedly hum...
Seeking Participants for Learning Disability Research Workshop
Posted by Gillian McNeill on the 23rd January, 2017
Are you interested in influencing new research into learning disability? Are you a service user, parent or carer with experience of learning disability? Participants are being sought for a research priority-setting workshop to be held in March, in London. The purpose, to identif...
Scottish Teenage Book Prize 2017
Posted by Claire Harrison on the 19th January, 2017
The Scottish Teenage Book Prize is a new award from the Scottish Book Trust. The award celebrates the best of fantastic Scottish teen fiction. There is still time to register, so be sure to log onto the book trust website and cast your vote. You have until 17th February to vote for your favourite bo...
CALL Scotland meets Bookbug Prize Authors
Posted by Gillian McNeill on the 17th January, 2017
It’s not every day we get the chance to get up close and personal with the authors of picture books that our children love to read, but this great opportunity fell to me last week at the Bookbug Picture Book Prize Reception. This event was hosted in Edinburgh by the Scottish Book Trust (SBT) w...
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