Inspired by Anthony Evans’ post I have been inspired to attempt teaching a short unit of work using Google Sketchup to my Key Stage 4 group of mixed ASD and GLD learners. I have adapted Anthony’s unit plan and the first lesson went down very well. The group are fairly difficult to engage, yet were completely [...]
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At risk of sounding like a 2Simple fanboy, I picked up a copy of 2Create a Superstory at BETT in January. It’s great! Egged on by this review, I used it with a group of KS3 ASD learners, who really enjoyed creating their stories. The software is powerful yet beautifully simple to use. Their digital stories [...]
HelpKidzLearn is an online resource with some really good simple activities for younger SEN and SLD learners created by Inclusive Technology. It’s a great source of starter activities for my ICT lessons, and is well worth a look.
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Project Natal is a device announced today for the Xbox360. It’s a motion sensing device that allows you to control video games and Xbox 360 menus with your body instead of a peripheral controller. Natal gives you voice and full-body motion control over your on-screen avatar using an RGB camera, depth sensor and multi-array microphone.
I’ve [...]
I’ve been using 2Simple DIY to platform games with a Healthy Eating theme. We had great fun! The children downloaded pictures of “bad foods” from the internet, designed the level’s, created their characters, recorded the sounds and playtested each others games. Best of all – the games can be saved as a SWF file and [...]
I am very excited to be going to Ghana on Saturday. We have an international link along side William C Harvey School in Tottenham with New Horizon Special School and Castle Road Special Schools in Accra, Ghana and is funded by the Department for International Development. We have called the programme Creating Friendship and Interdependence. [...]
Koosh Generator is a lovely little online program that would work well with SLD learners using a touchscreen or interactive whiteboard and when teaching cause and effect. I spotted it on the prolific Teaching Learners with Multiple Needs blog.
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Vocaroo is a great little web app. It has a beautifully simple interface. After recording a sound file it give the option to listen to it, post it on the internet (via an embed code) or send it via email. You can even download it.
I can see an application here with the work we have [...]
“The Feelings Game“ is a simple game teaching emotions. I works really well on an IWB. This would fit in really nicely with a lot of the work we do with our ASD learners.
I found it on the excellent Woodlands Junior School website, which has a page of useful SEN links.
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I recently started studying for an MA in ICT & Education at Leeds University via distance learning. I have been asked by my tutor to keep a journal of my experiences – and it made sense to me to intergrate it with my existing blog.
I attend weekly sessions that take place online. The current module [...]
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