[senit] RE: auditing staff skills in Clicker, WWS,Powerpoint

You can get round this by having a transparent cell overlaid on top of
another cell if you are really desperate to have more than one symbol /
picture in a cell.

Claire Barnes
Willow Dene School

P.S. Thanks Kevin for this handy tip (and all the others) yesterday.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mitchell, Dave (ChS, LBSS) [mailto:dmitchell at worcestershire.gov.uk] 
Sent: 01 February 2007 12:15
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: RE: [senit] RE: auditing staff skills in Clicker, WWS,Powerpoint

Kevin

many thanks

am I correct in assuming C5 only alows one image per cell (therefore one
symbol per cell)

any comment on the quality of WLS symbols (emf) displayed in the cells and
in clicker writer?

dave mitchell

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From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk]On Behalf Of Kevin Lynch
Sent: 01 February 2007 12:05
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: RE: [senit] RE: auditing staff skills in Clicker,
WWS,Powerpoint

The Widgit symbols can be registered as a library (as can PCS, folders
of photographs and any other collections of graphics).  For each
activity, you can chose the libraries you wish to have active and the
order in which Clicker 5 will search them.

Any cell can be set to take predictions from Penfriend.  The function is
set up by going to the Cell Properties Dialog.  In the text area of the
Appearance tab type {prediction[0]}, {prediction[1]}, etc.  The number
determines the order in which the cells take the words from Penfriend.

Version 5.2 comes with three ready-made Pop-up keyboards.  These have
QWERTY, alphabetical and high-frequency layouts.

Picking up on Craig's point about MFL, another new feature for v5.2 is
the ability to translate a picture library into another language.  You
do NOT have to copy the whole library and then rename the pictures.  A
language can be set for the library and the appropriate name added.
This means that when grid set has English as the library, typing "cat"
will produce a picture.  When the language is set to French typing
"chat" will produce the same picture.

Kevin

Kevin Lynch
Training Manager
Crick Software Ltd

-----Original Message-----
From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mitchell, Dave
(ChS, LBSS)
Sent: 01 February 2007 11:29
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: RE: [senit] RE: auditing staff skills in Clicker,
WWS,Powerpoint

Craig

thanks for this

and if the selected picture library is (say) wigdit literacy symbols,
then the image will be a WLS symbol?

Dave Mitchell

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[mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk]On Behalf Of Craig Mill
Assist-I.T.
Sent: 01 February 2007 11:25
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: [senit] RE: auditing staff skills in Clicker, WWS,Powerpoint

I have been following the discussion regarding staff skills with a great
deal of interest, particularly the Clicker training ideas. 

As some of you will know the release of Clicker 5.2. and Penfriend XL
version 3, extends the features of Clicker, particularly in terms of
predictive on-screen keyboards and prediction with switch access. 

Combined with a topic lexicon created in Penfriend and used in
conjunction
with Clicker's picture library, for example, a symbol library, you have
a
very useful tool to suit a range of learners of different abilities. For
instance Clicker can display an image or a symbol alongside the
predicted
word. Type an 'h' and Clicker can display a house alongside the
prediction

It is also possible to copy and paste 'prediction' cells from the
onscreen
keyboard into the grid section. Rather than having static cells,
Penfriend
will provide 'dynamic' cells that change depending oh what is being
typed
(similar to the onscreen keyboard but within a grid set). It works
particularly well with foreign languages when using grid sets such as
days
of the week, months of the year.

Another feature is to create Close Procedures in the document part of
Clicker by using the 'pen or highlighting' tool to create spaces in
sentences. Used in conjunction with a topic lexicon, Penfriend will
predict
words relevant to the Close task - simply click in the highlighted
(close)
area and select a word from the cell to complete the task.

Over the next couple of days I will have a short tutorial and some
example
grids that can be downloaded from the website.

Regards

Craig 

www.assist-it.org.uk 

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