Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 8th January, 2018
CALL Scotland's webinars are a valuable opportunity for relevant, practical FREE Professional Learning on the topic of inclusive digtal technologies. What you learn from these webinars could enhance your teaching methods and thus increase the learning opportunities for your students ...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 4th January, 2018
Dictate is a speech recognition add-on for Microsoft Office products. Once installed, you can talk aloud in Word, Outlook Mail and PowerPoint and have your words automatically transcribed into the selected field. Is it any good and how does it compare to software such as Dragon Naturally Speak...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 6th November, 2017
My presentation at last week’s ASN Provision in Education: Priorities, Potential and the 10-Year strategy was about the assistive and communication technology expertise that CALL Scotland has and shares nationally and how this directly corresponds to the services within scope that have b...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 13th September, 2017
New iPad courses on offer - FREE Professional Learning! An Apple Regional Training Centre (RTC) delivers courses to build the skills and confidence of educators to use Apple technology inside and outside the classroom. CALL Scotland is a designated Apple RTC and our special interest lies in p...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 17th August, 2017
Should schools consider investing Pupil Equity Fund money in Assistive Technology and training? Yes and here is why... Learners with Additional Support Needs have lower achievement than learners who do not have ASN. Use of Assistive Technology can raise "raise achievement in the communit...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 16th August, 2017
I must learn more about inclusive digital technologies and how they can support my students with additional support needs. Did you say to yourself at some point last year? Did you get the chance to do it? Have you started back at school and are reminded straight away ...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 20th July, 2017
Microsoft has a new speech recognition plug-in which can be used in Word, Outlook email and Powerpoint. It can even translate your words to different languages which could be a useful practice tool for students with English as an Additional Language. It was easy to download and install Dictation as...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 18th July, 2017
Dragon Naturally Speaking is high quality speech recognition software for Windows and MacOS. As well as dictating to your computer, you can format text and control the computer. NaturallySpeaking installs on the computer so you don't need an internet connection for it to work. We reco...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 4th July, 2017
Clips is a new Free iOS app for making and sharing videos with text captions, special effects, graphics and more. It was very easy to create this short captioned video. Using the camera on your iPhone or iPad, hold the red button to record live video (or use a video clip from your P...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 20th June, 2017
The Pupil Equity Fund (worth £120 million) is directly allocated to schools to address the poverty related attainment gap. To close this identified gap, children and young people from all backgrounds need to be given more opportunities and greater support to succeed in order to achieve e...
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