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Posted by Craig Mill on the 26th May, 2015
If you have the latest online version of Office 365 (available through Glow) or if you have downloaded the desktop version, Office 2013 (also through Glow in participating authorities) there’s a new feature, ‘Office Store’ that could offer some handy features to support learni...
Posted by 4 on the 25th May, 2015
Premiere this week in Riga Latvia – but you saw it first (blink and you will miss it!) CALL had a bit of fun putting together a 1 minute video with closed captions: YouTube version; Downloadable version. Plus accompanying transcript (Word transcript (.doc) and text transcript (...
Posted by Joanna Courtney on the 14th May, 2015
Proloquo2Go (P2Go) version 4.0 has been released and it looks like many improvements have been made. There is no additional charge to update if you are an existing P2Go user and if you are a new user it will cost you £199.99 (previously £129.99). Why should I update my app to ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 1st May, 2015
We have uploaded another 96 books kindly contributed by Mary Matson at VTSS in Edinburgh to the Books for All Database. Some are scanned copies and some are Large Print. There are too many to list here, but you can see the full inventory on the news section on the front page of the databas...
Posted by 14 on the 29th April, 2015
Astonishingly, tomorrow is officially my last day as a member of the CALL Scotland team, as retirement whisks me away to a new stage of life. How can 30 + years have passed so quickly? Well, I suppose - because every day is different and I've been enjoying it all ...
Posted by 14 on the 29th April, 2015
We've just had a sneak preview of the new Clicker Communication App for iPad that will be available soon, designed primarily for children and young people. It is perhaps not revolutionarily innovative in AAC terms, but it nicely integrates all the usual features of a basic AAC system w...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 28th April, 2015
Best wishes to all learners, parents/carers, teachers, assistants and SQA staff for the 2015 SQA exams which start today! The timetables starts with Drama this morning, Economics this afternoon, and runs until Friday June 5, finishing with High Early Education and Childcare. According to t...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 17th April, 2015
Speech recognition has been around for many years, and many people have tried it without much success. It could be made to work, but often involved a lot of training, time and effort. Today though, computers are much more powerful, speech recognition software is much more accurate and reliable, and ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 30th March, 2015
Development Officer - Assistive Technology & Additional Support Needs As a result of recent and upcoming staff changes, we are looking for a person to come and join the CALL team. This post is full-time and fixed-term until 31st March 2017 - although we hope and expect that funding will ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 30th March, 2015
Thanks to Isabell Irvine from Inverclyde for contributing Large Print books in both Word and PDF. The Word files are provided in case staff need to edit them to change the font or font size for example. George's Marvellous Medicine - LP14 Word George's Marvellous Medic...
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