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 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 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 Paul Nisbet on the 10th October, 2014
Tom Strang at TeeJay Publishers has kindly provided digital versions of the new Curriculum for Excellence books for the Books for All Database, so that learners with print disabilities can read and access them. Sarah and Rebecca here in CALL have been working hard to insert answer ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 1st October, 2014
One common challenge facing many learners with additional support needs is that of writing down mathematical and arithmetic working. This can be a real difficulty for learners with handwriting problems, dyspraxia, low muscle tone, dyslexia and dyspraxia, and learners on the autistic spectrum. S...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 12th September, 2014
16/7/18: We regret that Hodder Gibson textbooks have been temporarily (we hope) removed from the Database at the request of the publisher, following alleged illegal use. We hope that they will be available again in time for the 2018/19 academic session. Rebecca here in CALL has uploaded another 11 H...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 10th September, 2014
Our grateful thanks to Tom Strang and colleagues at TeeJay for providing us with PDFs of their new National 4 and 5 maths textbooks. The CfE Books N4-1, N4-2, N4+ and N5 are now available from the Books for All Scotland Database.
The books are PDF files and we have added bookmarks to aid navigati...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 28th August, 2014
For a few years now we have been distributing digital versions of Hodder Gibson textbooks on CD, and the service has become increasingly popular with schools.
We're very pleased to say that the publishers have now given us permission to make the books available for download via the Books for ...
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...
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