Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 13th January, 2015
Following the incident where a TeeJay book was found available on the internet (see the 7 January blog post), we have modified the wording of the Books for All Database records and we hope that it is clearer and encourages staff to read and understand the terms and conditions. Tom Strang at TeeJa...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 9th January, 2015
You may have found that the TeeJay maths PDFs are not on the Books for All database any more. We have temporarily removed them because just before Christmas one of the files appeared on Wikispaces, freely downloadable, and this is not permitted under the agreement we have with TeeJay. We are...
Posted by 4 on the 9th January, 2015
A new free resource book on dyslexia is available. Although written mainly for adults who have dyslexia it may be of interest to a more general audience that includes parents of children with dyslexia. Written anonymously by an adult who has dyslexia it takes a holistic approach to reading. It de...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 6th January, 2015
Back in 2006 Naomi and Ross Forrester from Speaking Solutions in New Zealand visited us to find out about digital exams. Naomi and Ross are experts in speech recognition and digital tools to support learners with disabilities and difficulties. Since then they have been working with Louise ...
Posted by Craig Mill on the 15th December, 2014
Voice personal assistants are becoming increasingly popular with the rise of Apple’s Siri and Android’s Google Now. Siri and Google Now have a lot of features in common, such as location services, e.g. asking for the nearest restaurant, setting up calendar events and reminders, ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 15th December, 2014
New books uploaded to the database from Hodder Gibson are: Higher Human Biology for CFE Modern Studies Social Issues in the UK National 4 Maths Teacher’s Book, Answers and Assessment Practice Thanks also to Forbes Smith from East Dunbartonshire for contributing ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 12th December, 2014
Previously if you wanted to create an interactive digital prelim, assessment or other resource with answer boxes on screen, you had to use Adobe Acrobat Pro, which costs around about £60 per license under a special licensing arrangement from Education Scotland. Even though this is a ...
Posted by 4 on the 10th December, 2014
Many pupils are now using iVona MiniReader as their main text-to-speech tool in Scottish schools. One question has come up a couple of times and it came up again in today's SQA ICT & Literacy Seminar (URL). Today's question was how to use iVona to read out a National Literacy...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 3rd December, 2014
You can now download the 2014 past papers from the SQA Digital Question Papers pages. Since prelim season is almost upon us, these can be useful for class teaching as well as revision, and of course for students to practice using the papers on a computer, iPad or other device. You can a...
Posted by 14 on the 1st December, 2014
If you're looking for quick-to-make Winter / Christmas activities, check out the free downloadable symbol supported worksheets, from Widgit .
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