Creatively harnessing ICT in special needs education.
All the following animations were created by a KS3 ASD class with a 40 minute lesson using Pivot. It is fantastic free software for introducing animation – very simple to use and with very pleasing results. The kids loved it!
“Friends” by L in SB
“American Wrestling” by H in SB
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We’ve had some child-protection issues at school lately involving social networking sites and I have been addressing e-Safety issues in class and assemblies. There are ongoing issues as to what sites to filter and whether online games should be permitted (Runescape is the current favourite amoungst the secondary cohort).
This film gave me food for thought [...]
I’ve been using 2Simple’s 2Email with SEN students over the past term – and have had some fantastic results. The software enables students with very limited literacy to send emails. The system is internal only – with no access to the internet – and all users are identified by their name and, crucially, their photo. [...]
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I have been thinking a lot about ways of exchanging work with our partner school in Ghana. This has been somewhat of a challenge given that we are an SEN school, and most of our learners have limited literacy skills. We have played with ways using photos and short videos to encourage the children to [...]
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