Our websites:
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 13th May, 2014
Last week at the CALL Scotland RTC launch I presented a workshop on iPads and Dyslexia, and one of the topics we considered was sharing of learning resources between Windows and iPad. Many teachers use Microsoft Word to create curriculum resources, and so a fundamental question is “h...
Posted by 4 on the 9th May, 2014
CALL Scotland is delighted to announce that today we became an accredited Apple Regional Training Centre. CALL is now one of the 100 or so learning hubs across the UK that promote collaboration and sharing of resources and best practices with teachers and the wider education comm...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 21st April, 2014
We had a couple of enquiries last week about different aspects of 'text to speech' on an Apple Macintosh computer so it is probably a good time to put together some updated information, particularly relating to the Mavericks (10.9) Operating System. The first related to general text to speec...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 16th April, 2014
A new graphic novel based on the life of John Muir, the Scottish pioneering conservationist was launched by the Scottish Book Trust earlier this month. The novel is written by award-winning author Julia Bertagna and illustrated by Glasgow-based artist William Goldsmith, and free copies are being...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 2nd April, 2014
Recently there has been renewed interest in the potential of speech recognition for learners with writing and literacy difficulties (partly as a result of the restriction on use of a scribe for assessing writing at National 3/4 Literacy). Dragon NaturallySpeaking is we think the best speech recognit...
Posted by 14 on the 19th March, 2014
I've become interested in a communication app called SPEAK all! designed by researchers at Purdue University specifically for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder who use PECS. SPEAK all! is still somewhat in development, so I don't want to mislead by over-laud...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 19th March, 2014
[This is the first blog in an occasional series considering different aspects of the use of speech recognition] We had some interesting feedback today from a school about a recent loan of a laptop with Dragon NaturallySpeaking software installed for trial use by one of their pupils: "J&nb...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 3rd March, 2014
Literacy is a mandatory Unit for all learners at National 3 and 4 and assessment covers the skills of reading, writing, talking and listening. Where reading is being explicitly assessed, the use of human reader is not permitted, and similarly, where writing is being assessed, a scribe cannot be used...
Posted by 14 on the 28th February, 2014
Had a great day yesterday on the CALL course 'iPads and Communication - fully featured AAC apps from symbols to text' . It can be hard work ploughing through a range of complex apps that all look somewhat similar but actually have a wide variety of different features, strengths and weak...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 7th February, 2014
Text-to-speech is one of the most useful accessibility tools for learners with and also without literacy or access difficulties. Pupils with dyslexia or reading difficulties can use text-to-speech to access digital text; pupils with English as a second language, or with language or learning dif...
Newsletter: join thousands of other peopleOnce a month we'll send you an email with news, research and thoughts, as well as training courses and free webinars you may wish to attend.
Our social media sites - YouTube, Twitter and Facebook