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Ian has spent much of the last 10 years researching how children with severe and complex needs interact with technology. In 2011, while at Inclusive Technology, he wrote the Switch Progression Road Map which is now used by hundreds of schools around the world as a guide to assessing and teaching switching skills. In 2013, Ian will publish Touch Skills Progression, a comprehensive teaching and assessment guide covering touch technology such as touch screens, interactive whiteboards, interactive plasma screens and 'tablet' devices such as ipads. The Touch Skills Progression booklet covers the full range of skills from early intentional touching (cause and effect) through to making meaningful choices by selecting from a range of on-screen options. Detailed level descriptors and small steps are carefully explained and illustrated through case study and classroom examples using common software that you'll have on your school network. |
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| Looking at the 'Switch Training' settings in SlideShow Maker and how to use them with the Switch Progresion Road Map. | Some simple ideas for using digital cameras from an article I wrote for NASEN's 'Special!' Magazine. | ||
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| Every switch accessible HelpKidzLearn activity mapped to Ian's 'Switch Progression Road Map.'. | A large collection of 'sensory' poems for multi-sensory lessons posted by colleagues on the SLD Forum. | ||
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| An easy to follow step-by-step guide to making an 'Animal Sounds' quiz in SwitchIt! Maker 2.. | A easy to follow tutorial showing how to edit music for your Slideshow Maker cause and effect activities in Audacity.. | ||
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| Another easy to follow step-by-step guide, this time showing how to make a switch accessible jukebox in SwitchIt! Maker 2.. | Some additional handouts from my series of iPad courses delivered together with Flo Longhorn. <zip file> | ||
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| A large collection of useful ipad resources which accompanied some of my training workshops in 2012. | A list of ipad apps shown to colleagues attending the TES Resources show in Manchester 2012. | ||
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| During my time at Inclusive Technology, I wrote several useful booklets including the very popular Learning Journeys: Switch Progression Road Map, which has been downloaded many thousands of times by educators and therapists. Colleagues around the world are using the booklet to help them assess, teach and record their student's progress in switching skills. The Switch Progression Road Map and my step-by-step guides to Inclusive Technology's 'ChooseIt! Maker 2', 'SwitchIt! Maker 2 and others in the 'Maker' series can be downloaded directly from the Inclusive Technology web site by clicking the picture. |
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| Hilary Norton, an Advisory Teacher for SEN ICT and Inclusion wrote "This is a book that should be in every special school classroom." You can read Hilary's review of my Learning Journeys: Switch Progression Road Map booklet here: Merlin John Online | |
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| Slides from an hour long Ipad presentation at the ACE Centre in Oxford in March 2013. | A PDF list of the apps that I'm currently using in my work with schools and demonstrating in my workshops. | ||
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| Fully annotated slides from an hour long presentation looking at assistive technologies and how they are used in class. | Fully annotated slides from an hour long presentation about teaching cause and effect with switches. | ||
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| Fully annotated slides from an hour long presentation about moving students on beyond cause and effect with switches. | Fully annotated slides from an hour long presentation about using switches with toys and electrical devices. | ||
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| Fully annotated slides from an hour long presentation looking at simple AAC devices and how we use them in class. | Slides from a 45 minute presentation looking at the use of symbols and other visual supports.. | ||
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