Tag Archives: curriculum support
Useful FREE online resource
Posted in Tools & Resources
Ian Bean December 27, 2011
Ian Bean December 27, 2011
FREE Image Generators This month we’re highlighting this great set of online tools to allow you and your students to create a range of images using your own text. Create a newspaper clipping by simply adding a headline and a story. Great starter for desktop publishing lessons. Lots to choose from; movie clapper boards, banners and even a cigarette packet you can add …
Read2Go App – Ready Set Read! for Students with Learning Difficulties
Posted in Accessibility and Access, Apps and Mobile Learning, New Technologies, Teaching and Learning, Web links
Jane Farrall July 29, 2011
Jane Farrall July 29, 2011
Read2Go, the new accessible eBook reader for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is now available for download from the iTunes App store. Read2Go works with Bookshare. Any book available to you through your Bookshare login can now be downloaded to your iPad or iPod touch and read on your mobile device – offering a more accessible, portable library. (If you need more information …
QR Codes – What are they and how can I use them in my classroom?
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning
Greg O'Connor June 13, 2011
Greg O'Connor June 13, 2011
A QR Code is a type of barcode that is readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera telephones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded may be text, URL, or other data*. Like me, you may have seen these codes in newspapers and magazines, on promotional material, in the corner of posters …
Literacy for All at Willans Hill
Posted in Latest News
Jane Farrall June 3, 2011
Jane Farrall June 3, 2011
In the middle of last year, I was lucky enough to meet Chris Lennon, Principal at Willans Hill School in Wagga Wagga when Chris attended the AGOSCI Literacy Intensive, which was led by Dr Karen Erickson and Dr David Koppenhaver. Chris and I fairly quickly hatched a plan – which was to roll the Four Blocks approach to literacy out across her whole school. …
Making Words – Accessible to all students through Boardmaker Studio
Posted in New Technologies, Techniques & Tips, Tools & Resources
Jane Farrall April 8, 2011
Jane Farrall April 8, 2011
Making Words is one of my all-time favourite literacy strategies. It has been fabulous for students just learning to spell and for those who think they aren’t good at spelling or phonics (and who have sometimes given up). I can’t thank Patricia Cunningham and Dorothy Hall enough for publishing this activity for the rest of us to use! But before I go on and …
Useful Spectronics Blog posts: Check them out!
Posted in Tools & Resources, Web links
Barbara Landsberg March 31, 2011
Barbara Landsberg March 31, 2011
The Spectronics team continue to be busy bloggers sharing their thoughts and updates on happenings in the world of technology. Listed here are some of the most recent posts, but to view all, or to add your comments, just visit the Spectronics Blog. You can also set up an RSS Feed to be notified of when a new entry is posted. Click here for …
Inclusive Learning Technology Workshops in Brisbane!
Posted in Events, Workshops
Eliza Bale March 11, 2011
Eliza Bale March 11, 2011
Our technology workshops to be presented in Brisbane from Thursday 14th and Friday 15th April 2011 are filling up fast! As Spectronics is Australia’s largest supplier of technologies for support of students with disabilities and/or learning difficulties, our workshops are designed to help you to keep up with the newest technologies available to assist your students’ learning, communication and independent achievement in school and …
Universal Access using Graphics and Drawing Software
Posted in Tools & Resources
Gerry Kennedy March 10, 2011
Gerry Kennedy March 10, 2011
1. Introduction Some students dislike or struggle with writing or typing text. A number of reasons or factors may be involved. They may have previously failed in creating text, have poor spelling, writing or typing skills or they are slow to create text. Some find planning and organising their thoughts challenging. Others discover that the mechanics of hand writing fail them as it is …
Spectronics on the road in 2011: Register now for full day workshops!
Posted in Events, How to learn more!, Workshops
Barbara Landsberg February 28, 2011
Barbara Landsberg February 28, 2011
The Spectronics team are about to hit the road for another series of popular workshops in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Workshops for Auckland and Wellington in November of this year are currently being finalised too. It would be great if you could join us!
ANZ Versions of Communicate: SymWriter and Communicate: In Print 2
Posted in New Technologies, Tools & Resources
Barbara Landsberg September 14, 2010
Barbara Landsberg September 14, 2010
We announced in October last year, that as Writing with Symbols was over ten years old, it would no longer be available. Since then we have seen great interest in the two replacement programs – Communicate: In Print 2 and Communicate: SymWriter. Combined, these new programs offer all of the features of Writing with Symbols and MUCH more. Install both and have access to …
