Author: AccessAbility Smyles

Word Prediction has been around a long time and yet there is no recent research done on it as being an effective for the dyslexic learner to use in classrooms where speech recognition doesn’t really work due to self-consciousness of the pupil. Listen to the above podcast and download it to share with others the benefits of word prediction tools as they are mentioned.

Bonus week! 2 for 1! Just trying out a different way of delivering the podcast to you. I use Podbeam to create it which sends you to the series link. You can also download it for use of offline I have discovered. I tried an audio player option but it doesn’t really work for me here.

In this epsiode I am looking at AT apps – I just mention a few that I find useful in my own work. Enjoy and please share to those who would find it useful

What is SOLID? It’s the brainchild of Sir Tim Berners-Lee who wants a new kind of web where ideas can be shared freely with no restrictions or rules as such. This is a risk. But when listening to him on Monday evening at the lecture at the Business Design Centre it was clear that Sir Tim thinks we need a mid-course correction for the worldwide web he invented. Hence this idea – SOLID.

So how can I describe SOLID? It feels like a wiki and yet it’s a personal cloud storage area. There are contacts lists, folders, files, documents. A place to store things. A place to share things. Public and private. It feels very, very basic and geeky with areas where code is listed for your site – presumably to share with others what you have built.

And that’s the key! It’s true free content with no control and stripped to its essential component. I still trying to get my head around it so to begin with I using it for a project to do with training in Assistive Technology. Keep everyone posted.

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