Do It Yourself Making meaningful computer based activities

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Do It YourselfMaking meaningful computer based
activities
Penny McCulloch Special Education and Learning
Difficulties Consultant
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Learning needs of students with autism may
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• Cognition and learning
• Social and play skills
• Sensory processing
• Communication
• Behaviour

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The computer can be a tool to supportthese
learning needs at school and home
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Software that enables teachers, therapists,
parents/carers and children to create
individualised interactive learning activities is
becoming popular
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Why do it yourself?

• Make sure students are engaged
• Use real life examples and experiences as a basis
  for learning
• Create a balance between the school curriculum,
  individual goals and student interests
• Take advantage of incidental learning
  opportunities
• Accommodate individual learning
• styles

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Common features of DIY software

• Include example activities
• Provide a framework to develop your own learning
  activities
• Design templates help speed up process
• May include built-in bank of multimedia resources
• Incorporate your own pictures, sounds, videos
• Activities are quick and easy to make
• Universal access
• switches, interactive whiteboard, touchscreen,
  mouse
• Ability to share files between school and home

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More features

• Increase student involvement in the creative
• process
• Kid friendly resources e.g. digital blue camera
• Student authoring elements simple tools

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Switchit!Maker 2Chooseit!Maker 2Jigsaw! Maker
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What activities can you make?

• Social stories
• Curriculum support activities
• Language and literacy activities
• Project presentations for class
• Simple talking books
• Choicemaking activities
• Cause and effect
• Work training sequences for older learners
• Access training
• Class quizzes/simple assessment tool
• And more

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Switchit!Maker2

• Make your own talking book,
• social story or cause and
• effect activity
• Similar to PowerPoint except
• easier!
• Symbolised buttons/tools
• One or a series of activities
• Visual display options
• Range of access options
• Auto-run activity or
• operated by user reduce
• adult intervention!
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Chooseit!Maker2

• Linear, onscreen decision-making activities and
  quizzes
• 1,500 clipart style pictures pcs
• Add text or own image choices
• Vary your answers
• Add personalised rewards
• Range of access options
• Share activities with free player
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Switchit!Jigsawmaker 2

• Create your own jigsaw puzzles
• 4 different completion styles
• Range of access options
• Add music and
• recorded sound
• Includes music and
• photo samples
• Customise your reward
• Students can add their
• own pictures
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Kid friendly cameraDigital Movie Creator2

• Capture digital video and audio at or away from
  your computer
• Robust construction, lightweight and compact 16MB
  of memory
• Captures up to 2000 snapshots
• Up to 4 minutes standard quality away from
  PC.Unlimited when attached to PC
• Enhance video footage using the editing software
  provided, with full library of titles, special
  effects and transitions
• Recommended for Ages 8 to Adult
• Runs on AAA batteries

235 23.50 gst
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Where do I get images?

• Digital Camera/video
• Scanner
• The Web! - Google Image Search
• General Clip Art or photo collections
• Specialised image collections
• Picture This Pro collections
• Photo Object Collections

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Picture This Pro

• 5000 photos with backgrounds removed
• Lotto card/page layout software built in
• Enlarge to A4 size!
• Add on collections
• Jpg format
• 195 19.50 gst
• School routines and rules
• Functional Living Skills and Behviour Rules
  edition

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New! Visual EssentialsPhoto and template
collection

• over 3,500 photos, templates and layouts
• create visual materials for special needs
  individuals and early learners
• hundreds of pre-made
• schedules, checklists,
• token boards, chore charts,
• self-help pages and behaviour
• charts

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More picture collections

• Life in Focus
• Photo textures
• Visual Foods Photo collection
• Flash! Pro
• www.spectronicsinoz.com

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Mix and Match!

• Use graphic resources from other software
  packages you have on your computer!

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Video resources

• Video Bank
• Animals, transport
• Over 40 MPG movies per CD
• Additional jpeg image files
• 79.00 7.90

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Sound and music resources

• A Zillion Sounds
• Enlighten Up
• Ice Calm - Background Patterns for Improvisation
• Music tracks
• Music sites on web.
• www.spectronicsinoz.com