[senit] seen at BETT

BETT - stuff I liked:

*       Lots of exciting new Clicker resources - esp. Phonics (including
some good early sound awareness stuff - based on environmental sounds and
sound matching - not ready til March) and the new books they have brought
out (some of which are not available til March)

*       Very inspirational seminars from Ian Bean and Pete Wells at the
Fringe today, and also from Mick Walters (on Curriculum Design and ICT) from
the QCA (yes really...)

*       BBC jam - some very exciting new activities for children with VI and
HI (not on-line yet, and not for children with SLD, but if you know any BSL
users.) 

*       2Simple City and Maths City

*       I'd seen most of Inclusive's offerings at a recent Information Day,
but I'm very enthused about SwitchIt Maker2 and ChooseIt Maker2 - we have
both in school already and they are being used with inspiration by some
fairly technologically challenged teachers (I'm sure they wouldn't mind me
saying as they are the first to admit).

*       I also liked the look of PaintING - my only gripe was that it is
single user licences only, but I spoke to IT about that and they are going
to speak to the developer and see if they can negotiate something

*       Pete Wells flagged up (and demonstrated) an incredible piece of
software called Crazy Talk 4.5 and suggested some great applications for it
(although they did not exhibit at BETT as far as I know, and it's not cheap
apparently).

*       There was some interesting software from a company called Q&D
Multimedia - designed for Early Years, but the content is not babyish - a
couple of nice music creation programmes and some other stuff. Two of there
offerings are even switch accessible.

*       Lots more stuff, but I suppose those are the highlights (I hope I
haven't missed anything significant, there is other stuff, but having spent
the last two days there my brain feels slightly addled and I need to do a
bit of work pulling it all together)

Claire Barnes

Willow Dene School

-----Original Message-----
From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of david fettes
Sent: 10 January 2007 23:16
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: [senit] seen at BETT

Anyone been to BETT? What did you see of interest?

I enjoyed seeing amongst other things the new 2simple

paint a picture which has lots more features than

2paint;sensory software's paintING (with sound, like

the old Doodle) widgit communicate:sym writer

.Inclusive in the fringe (Bett organiser denied all

knowledge of it) had switchit wildlife, switchit

facemaker. Choose-itmaker maths will save some time

making support files. There is so much to see but the

travel difficulties are irksome!

What did you see?

David

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