doran review consultation
Posted by 4 on the 9th March, 2012
Scottish Government is reviewing how education will be provided for children and young people with complex support needs. Peter Doran is chairing that review, often referred to as the Doran Review. As part of the review, consultation events will be taking place with parents. The intention...
More libraries are lending eBooks and downloadble audio books
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 9th March, 2012
The eBook revolution continues apace in all sorts of ways, and more Scottish public libraries are joining in by lending eBooks and downloadable audiobooks, for us to borrow and read or listen to on our computers, iPhone or iPad, and Android devices. So far, five local authorities offer eBooks and ...
Why, if and when to move to BoardMaker Studio...???
Posted by 14 on the 17th February, 2012
Here's a 'changing over to the new Boardmaker Studio?' discussion that I imagine quite a few establishments will be having over the next wee while. *** Original Enquiry I have a bit of a predicament and would really appreciate your help! In this city, we are about to refresh all our current...
Stand Up comedian with iPad communication aid
Posted by 14 on the 17th February, 2012
Here's a first! Lee Ridley is a young chap with CP and severe motor speech impairment using an iPad as an AAC system, to deliver his stand-up comedy routine. Brilliant, good luck to him!
SQA Answer Booklets in Word format are now available
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 3rd February, 2012
One of the requests from the staff who attended the Digital Papers Focus Group meeting in October 2011 was for SQA to provide answer booklets in Microsoft Word format. While answer booklets have been provided as PDF documents, some staff felt that the Word format would be more suitable for some ca...
Windows 7 Ease of Access Centre Guide free to download
Posted by Craig Mill on the 2nd February, 2012
Ease of Access Centre Guide Microsoft has included a range of accessibility features (Accessibility Options) in its operating systems since Windows 95. Windows 7 incorporates several improvements such as a change of name from 'Accessibility Options' to 'Ease of Access Centre'. These features pr...
iBooks 2, iBooks Author and digital textbooks
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 20th January, 2012
Yesterday Apple launched iBooks 2, a new version of the iBooks app for iThingys; iBooks Author, a program for the Mac which is for writing and designing iBooks, and a range of interactive textbooks. The video about the interactive textbooks video a well worth a look - very promotional but also ins...
Orang utans and iPads
Posted by 14 on the 17th January, 2012
Well - the iPad is truly everywhere these days. Watch these fascinating videos - turns out that orangutans also like iPads! They like to watch videos, paint, play kids' Apps, watch other orang utans via Skype, ebooks etc. I have always been very interested in primate language studies and...
Including All Children in the Scottish Children\'s Book Awards
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 16th January, 2012
The 2011 Scottish Children's Book Awards is an innovative nationwide reading project in which children and young people from every corner of Scotland read and vote for their favourite Scottish children's books of the year. Votes MUST reach Scottish Book Trust by 5.30pm on Friday 27th January ...
New TeeJay secondary books on the Books for All Database
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 8th December, 2011
We have just uploaded the six TeeJay Maths secondary books to the Books for All Database, which means that all the TeeJay textbooks are now available for pupils with print disabilities to use. The files have been kindly supplied to us by Tom and John at TeeJay, and there are strict terms and condi...
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