Author: AccessAbility Smyles

If you are a SENCO or a teacher in school with a child with special needs or a headteacher or professional this may be of interest to you about training :-

Apps – do your pupils or staff need training?

Crick software have announced today an exciting conference for those work at and with Special Schools. This event will take place in London on Thursday 17th November at the The Hilton Euston London. It will also have a delicious 3 course lunch!! All for £99 per delegate.

Apart from the lunch it will be a time to be inspired at the beginning of an academic year to see and learn about transformational technology helping pupils. speakers include Carol Allen and John Galloway.

For more details click on the link below:-

http://www.cricksoft.com/uk/training/CPD-day.aspx

The last post  about what pano can do on Facebook got me thinking about how I could achieve that on own website . Using a website called Demander and the share option ( you need to sign up and make an account first) you can create embedded code use the iframe option and you can see the result for “Atrium@The Met” click on the link below:-

//www.dermandar.com/p/evBPGN?a=1&c=1&f=1

Are you aware that you can create magnificent 360 degree images using your iphone pana mode in Facebook? The feature appeared a month or two ago and as you move your iphone in space you can explore the image on your Facebook page as if you are there. Cool, uh?

For more details check out this link – great to use with your VR set as well!

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/06/09/facebook-panoramic-photos/

Also Messenger includes audio and video now which appears to be really good as well. I connected in the states with my son in Australia using it.

On holiday in the states I came across many instances of missed communication. For instance the first t-shirt messages leaves me mystified as to what the meaning is, does it  you?

Often we do the same in the IT world . We think we have got our meaning across but because there is no shared culture it plainly didn’t communicate. The same applies in training. We think our presentation has communicated but did we really consider the following:-

• The audience perspective
• Level of content used
• Clarity of the slides used

Feedback is tremendously important. Using IT can provide instant feedback from multiple sources. Research demonstrates that this high levels of engagement and encourages better understanding. The principle of you learn more when you do something is clearly important. So why not offer more opportunities for feedback during your presentations.

Here are just a few suggestions :-

Invite open ended answers by the use of open ended questions. Use phrases like what do you think about that? How would you use this? What problems do you see? What can be gained by doing this?

For checking understanding use apps like Socrates, Nearpod to quiz the group and modelling 21st century methods of instant feedbacks by all the group at the same time.

Use a summative survey that deals with higher level feedback regarding performance, content and delivery by saying what will you use tomorrow or how could you make it more simpler to understand.

i think that using these methods would give you more understanding of what learning has taken place ( good or bad!) and also how you have performed as a trainer or teacher.

AbilityNet have produced materials to publicise their free service , telephone number and ITCanhelp volunteer support

Tony Kershaw writes:-

“I am including information cc to my sister Anne Powell, Dave Summerville (who was himself Jenna Coleman’s Tutor at Arnold School in Blackpool).
Sad to think that such a great school as Arnold School in Blackpool ,with many good times had by pupils and staff, which has closed. Albeit that it has merged to form Arnold KEQMS on the Lytham St Annes site rather than its old site in Blackpool. Pupils’ would no longer have the great distractions of the Big Dipper or the Max Tower at the world famous Blackpool Pleasure Beach close by at south shore Blackpool. Where from the Learning Support office a great view and a-god-send for all concerned, from time to time.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3514336/I-ready-great-responsibility-lies-Jenna-Coleman-stars-Queen-Victoria-trailer-major-new-TV-drama.html

This website is a one page wonder just to introduce myself to interested customers.please either use the QR code or http://aas123.strikingly.com/

I have posted before about The Grid. It has had some modification and the ability to post directly from an iPad and make an attractive website instantly is a good improvement. But editing still presents difficulties so you have to plan in advance and make sure the content is what you want loaded