Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 10th October, 2013
Serendipitously, there are some new assessment exemplars focusing on learners with additional support needs on the National Assessment Resource and the exemplar from Denny High School is relevant to the current discussion regarding appropriate support for learners in assessment of literacy at Nation...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 10th October, 2013
Under Section 96 of the Equality Act, SQA has responsibility to decide what is and is not a ‘reasonable adjustment’ for assessment in the new National Qualifications.
From August 2013, SQA have decided that human readers are not to be regarded as a reasonable adjustment when learners ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 8th October, 2013
Frank Shaw from South Lanarkshire emailed to say that the South Lanarkshire library service now have an eBook and digital audiobook lending facility. To find out more, visit their web site.
I took the opportunity to search and update our Books from Libraries page on the Books for All w...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 3rd October, 2013
Bobath Scotland are running a one day workshop on Powered Mobility for children, led by Ros Livingston and Debbie Field. This is a great opportunity to think and learn about both the evidence base for paediatric powered mobilty and it's importance for children's development and...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 11th September, 2013
As of August 2013, SQA clarified what is and is not a 'reasonable adjustment' for learners with disabilities in assessments, and it seems that this has caused a bit of disquiet in some areas of Scottish education.
From speaking to practitioners, I believe that there is a general mis...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 19th August, 2013
We have scanned and uploaded most of the Higher Scottish set texts to the Books for All Database and so they are now available for any of your learners who have print disabilities. The books are PDF files so they can be read on almost any device - Windows or Mac computers, iPads, Android t...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 3rd July, 2013
Back in March I gave a presentation at the Developing Teachers in a Post-PC Era conference that we organised with Apple UK, where I suggested that one of the potential benefits of more learners using more new mobile technologies (iPads, tablets, mobiles etc) was that digital books and ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 2nd July, 2013
Large Print Maths books
Thanks to Caroline Jamieson in Moray for some new Large Print maths books:
Chapters 11 to 22 of TeeJay's new Curriculum for Excellence Level 1b book, in 20 point print (to add to the first half of the book);
Heinemann Higher Maths (ediion 1), also...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 2nd July, 2013
The latest additions to the Books for All Database are Scottish Heinemann Maths 6 and 7 Textbooks, Extension Textbooks and Assessment Books. This completes the set we think of the SHM books. These titles have all been scanned and then adapted with answer boxes. In some cases extra pages ha...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 5th June, 2013
We've had reports of Co:Writer 6 not working properly on netbook and laptop computers, particularly those running Windows 7. This seems to be a particular problem with the thousands of Toshiba NB250/300/500 machines bought through the Procurement Scotland arrangement.
Here's how to solve it for ...
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