Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd December, 2009
Spoken Ink is a new web site offering downloadable audio short stories by authors such as Roald Dahl, Angela Carter, Julian Barnes, Margaret Atwood "and a host of new and unknown talent." Most of the stories cost 99p to download and you can listen to them on your computer, MP3 player, mobile phon...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd December, 2009
Last Friday we gave a couple of talks on assistive techology and AAC, to students on the Moray House Primary Postgraduate course, and here's the powerpoint presentation. It is a whistle-stop tour through Communication, Access, Literacy and Learning. The presentation is a PDF and the notes for each...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 18th December, 2009
This is a chance for you to help improve the accessibility of Glow. If Glow is to fulfil it's aims it needs to be accessible to every pupil in Scotland and one way of helping many pupils with visual or reading difficulties is through 'text-to-speech' software, so that pupils can have material on G...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 16th December, 2009
The latest edition of the Accessibility Action Group newsletter is well worth a read and shows how much is going on in the field of accessible formats. For example:
new guidelines for publishers in how they should respond to requests for permission to adapt books or for digital versions of ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 14th December, 2009
Lots of teachers, pupils and parents are interested in scanning books into the computer, converting it readable text, so that for example:
pupils with physical disabilities can press a key on the keyboard, or click a switch, to turn the pages, or
dyslexic pupils can have the text read out ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 4th December, 2009
The University of Edinburgh celebrated 40 years of commercialisation with an exhibition and reception in the Playfair library on November 16th 2009. The Smart Wheelchair was Mr (or should that be Miss?) 1987 - the year when we started work on the first protoype. The event was attended by His Roya...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 4th December, 2009
The University of Edinburgh celebrated 40 years of commercialisation with an exhibition and reception in the Playfair library on November 16th 2009. The Smart Wheelchair was Mr (or should that be Miss?) 1987 - the year when we started work on the first protoype. The event was attended by HRH Princ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 25th November, 2009
Last week 26 teachers and educationalists from all over Scotland gathered at Stirling Management Centre for the second part of CALL's four day course on making learning materials in accessible formats - "Books for All". The course was funded by LTS and led by Paul Nisbet and Stuart Aitken of CALL ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 23rd November, 2009
Staff, parents and pupils often ask us for advice on whether a spellchecker can be used with an SQA Adapted Digital Paper, so this is what we think is the situation. If you are in any doubt, contact the SQA Assessment Arrangements team.
Question. Can I use a spellchecker in the examination?
Answ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 27th October, 2009
Paul Nisbet and Stuart Aitken have developed a comprehensive 4 day course that attempts to cover techniques for making learning resources in accessible formats. The course is split into two sections and the first half was held on 29/30 September, at Stirling Management Centre. It was attende...
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