Posted by Robert Stewart on the 6th December, 2011
A question I was asked recently is how many iPads (or iPod Touch and iPhone) can you put an App on? The answer to that would be as many as you want. However, that doesn't mean that these devices can then be used by a clasroom of pupils at the same time if only 1 licence for that App has been purc...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 22nd November, 2011
CALL recently carried out an experiment to see how well a Toshiba netbook would cope with Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 (Dragon). Dragon is a speech recognition software package developed and sold by Nuance. The netbook used was a Toshiba NB250 which offers reduced computing power when compared to ...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 6th September, 2011
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. Last year:
over 40,000 children registered and an amazing 17,000 vot...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 17th August, 2011
CALL now has a large bank of netbooks and our latest edition is the Toshiba NB250. A good little netbook which is light weight, cheap (£225 via the Procurement Scotland contract), long 8 hour battery life and relatively fast if you are using one or two programs. Note that netbooks are ...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 29th November, 2010
The 2010 Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books 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. Last year:
Over 31,000 children were involved and a...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 2nd November, 2010
A new version of WordTalk is now available for Windows 7 (32-bit). Unfortunately the Windows 7 (64-bit) version is not yet ready.
WordTalk is a free text-to-speech plugin developed for use with Microsoft Word. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as i...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 15th October, 2010
The Scottish Voice has been very well received by the Scottish educational community and we know that she is being used to listen to:
SQA digital exams;
novels;
digital textbooks;
Microsoft Word documents;
resources on Glow.
She is also used by children who cant...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 14th October, 2010
Issue 27 of 'New in CALL', the free news, views and events leaflet is now available for download.
Inside this issue:
Print Disability Licence;
The Royal Mail Book Awards;
iPad or Kindle;
Augmentative Communication in Practice: Scotland study day;
2010-2011 CPD Calendar.
...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 17th March, 2010
CALL Scotland has been organising the FREE annual ICT and Inclusion (originally called ICT/SEN Update) roadshow since 2001. It provides people with an opportunity to see and compare the latest software and technology to support students with additional support needs from most of the leading UK co...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 11th March, 2010
YouTube is a popular video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. However, due to it's design and abundance of links its very hard to access using just switches. Not to worry though since there is an application called Cooliris which when used in conjunction with Facebook will...
Our social media sites - YouTube, Twitter and Facebook