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Why Use Tablets

Increased use of tablets and apps in ISC’s

Touch screen and accessibility options

Personal devices / BYOD

Differentiation in mainstream

Future Skills

Integration with network

Managing accounts

What technology does wellAccessibility

Third Party

Tap & swiping

Zoom & Pinch

Voice Over

Toggling

Audio controls

Invert Colours…

Accessible Tablets

Ipads Siri video Accessibility Options– VoiceOver, Zoom, Invert Colours,

Microsoft Surface– USB port– Combined input and access– Touch friendly narrator and magnifier– Accessibility preferences transferable– Accessibility and Office apps – Android Apps

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What technology does well- supports group work

Differentiation, collaboration participation 1:50

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Apple for the teacher?

Self-paced 2 week project – controllable vehicle

Instructional video and e-book = Rewind videos and additional instructions in e-books and elsewhere.

Planned, filmed and edited an advert

Created a Jingle, and a

brochure, calculated costsand presented to parents

and ‘blogged’ about it.

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Technology as an AT tool. Doing what it does best….promoting

collaboration, supporting personalisation ….not requiring specialist skills

Tablets are intuitive, simplified, picture based, self-contained tools for

learning

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Where to start?

What do you want to do?

What skills will be needed now and in the future?

What works and how?

What technology does best? Differentiate

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Planning monitoring and differentiation

Differentiated teaching - Stickpick

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Story telling

OurStory

Built in camera

Dictation

and email

Blogging

Demibooks

Multi-media narrative

Pictello – talking photo albumor sequence

English Language

Language – Bluster Vocabulary builder

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Maths

MyMaths

FactrSamurai

Little Digits

Count to 100

Set a test using Quizcast

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Skills and understandingCause and effect

Talking Tom

Speech Box

Sensory Lightbox

Little Digits

Emotions

Swarkovski

Pocket pond

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EchoStrings, Magic Zither Soundbox Sound Prism - compose Garageband - play

Pottery HD make and sell ArtRage DoodleBuddy

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Supplementing and simplifying Communication

Communication

MyChoice - Makaton MyTalkTools TapToTalk TappedIn SoundingBoard (AbleNet symbols) Scene & Heard Lite – (Widgit) FreeSpeech Sono Flex Lite –symbols to speech Alexicom AAC - Speaking linking pages WritePad - handwriting and voice recognition

- Pocket pound -GarageBand

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Pictures

PECs- Picture Exchange Communication System Create your own using the ipads photo Album and PicFrame

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Other languages

Hearing Impaired

Visually Impaired

Where to put it all?

ViA – Aggregator of Visually Impaired Apps HeyTel and Voice Brief Big Browser – large keyboard and colour themes Light and Video Motion Detectors LookTel - Money reader and Colour ID VizWiz and oMoby – image recognition TTS, EverNote, Dragon, GPS Talking Maps,

Chimes, Alarms and Talking Calculators aggregators and organisers of information

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Emotions and social skills

SmartyPants

Social Skill Builder – interactive video

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Tailored App - Young Epilepsy

Seizure Video

Symptom log

Diary

Medical prompts

Contact details

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Organisational Apps

Calendars and reminders, Creating visual timetables and sequences

Dictation /recording - EverNote, AudioNote PaperPort EduCreations – record audio, add type or written notes

GPS – navigation / independence Camera – video conversations QR Code readers simplify information retrieval MindJet – share maps with PC

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Resources and Ideas

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@tes_senwww.tes.co.uk/sen-teaching-resources

Resources and Ideas

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Apps - Bloom Taxonomy

Community and tagging

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Sources and Resources

iPads in schools LiveBinders community Will Britton twitter tesconnect - Special Needs @tes_sen http://smallbutkindamighty.com/2012/02/28/how-i-

make-pecs-on-the-ipad/ ASD Teacher Apps and Autism Autism Speaks list of apps @talkaboutautism Teacherswithapps - SEN

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Examples and case studies

AOC WM iPads Innovate learning Experience iPads in the classroom SeedPod video Apps for Productivity

Linkage College Case study– MyChoicePad – (Makaton) – TaptoTalk

Tyne Metropolitan Case Study– Proloquo2go - Pocket pound -GarageBand

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Jisc RSC South West

juliataylor@rsc-south-west.ac.uk

07525770552

01392 400472

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