Sunday, November 30, 2008

Reflections Class 5, November 29,2008

We spent this class learning and practicing Clicker 5 as well as creating a cloze activity with Cloze Pro.
Clicker 5 is a form of assistive technology that supports reading and writing and has text to speech . You can customize activities for the students to meet their needs.Creating the activities is relatively easy and it has great graphics. I like the fact that students can write with single words or phrases. I can see the possibilities to support all areas of the curriculum.
This was one of my favorites so far. I have students I would like to try this with. I have a consultation with our assistive technology consultant in December for a student that I think would thrieve with this program. I have already sent an email about the availability of it.
Cloze Pro is also a great tool. The graphics are not as nice but you can input your own pictures.
The tutorial is easy to follow and is worth looking at if you are unsure how to use it. I opened the tutorial and Cloze Pro at the same time. I listened to part of the tutorial and then I tried it before moving on.

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