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

hello, sorry for cross-posting ,has anyone made a

Hi David,

FYI this is what other trainers provide:

CENMAC training covers:

INTRODUCTION
This introductory course will show staff how to make grids and talking books
using the programme, develop ideas for activities in class and how to use
materials made by others available as free downloads from the web.

ADVANCED
This course will develop the use of 'Clicker 5' for those already familiar
with the basics of the program. It will include:
Using picture libraries
Editing a master grid
Creating a talking book
Using pre-recorded sounds
Recording sound
Changing the grid layout
Adding hotspots
Adding video
Adding grids to a sequence
Adding pop-up grids
Labelling
Multiple choice activities
Creating new grid sets

ACCESS
'Clicker 5' will allow switch access through built in elements of the
program. This facility has just become available. Watch this space for
details.

Cricksoft's own training is accompanied by corresponding booklets. These
cover:

Clicker 5 Introduction
This booklet covers the main features of Clicker 5, including Clicker
Writer; using and creating Grid Sets; Pop-up grids; and talking books.

Clicker 5 Advanced
This booklet looks further at the multimedia features of Clicker 5 and how
it can be used for to create complex learning resources.

Clicker 5 Access
This booklet covers the range of access methods available in Clicker 5 and
how it can be used to address the needs of a variety of learners.
______

My thoughts:

Looking at your proposal, I think it is really important staff have an
overview of the potential of Clicker, so your beginner level training is
probably about right for some people, but I would include how to edit a grid
in this section. It might also be worth covering downloading, adapting and
using the online resources on 

http://www.learninggrids.com/SearchResults.aspx?siteId=1&p=1&sp=3&recs=10&pr
ogram=1&searchAll=true

(either beginner or intermediate)

Access settings seems to be the other thing that looks like it is omitted
from your plans - I don't know how relevant this is for your setting, but
its essential to cover this if you have switch users. Learning how to set up
group scans (row or column), as well as timings, scan border colours and
thicknesses, etc. can be really useful for some users.

Other than that I think what you have planned looks very useful. Is it going
to be hands-on? I know this can be difficult with large groups of staff. If
not, I think it is really important to allocate some additional time for
people to have a hands-on play.

Claire Barnes
Willow Dene School

P.S. I have had real problems with version 5.1 of Clicker 5. You can
download a patch to upgrade to 5.2 from the Cricksoft website and if you are
having problems, it might be worth doing this before your training (I
couldn't set it to single switch user on v.5.1 amongst other things).

-----Original Message-----
From: david fettes [mailto:davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: 29 January 2007 23:00
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Cc: sld-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: Re: [sld-forum] auditing staff skills in Clicker,WWS,Powerpoint

hello,time is flying and have to do training soon!Any
thoughts on the following audit to get three groups
for in -school clicker training?

beginner

Opening and closing Clicker
Typing into clicker writer
Using a clicker talking book
Using a grid
Using pop up grids
Using labelling activities
Saving files/opening files/printing files

Intermediate

Editing a grid
Creating a new grid
Linking grids
Creating a talking book
Setting the switch access method
Using pre-recorded sounds
Recording sound
Creating a jukebox type grid

Advanced

Create a cause and effect sequence of grids
Create picture building activities
Using picture libraries
Using forced order grids
Changing grid layout
Adding videos
Creating labelling activities
Create matching activities
Creating sorting activities

thanks
david

--- david fettes <davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> hello, sorry for cross-posting ,has anyone made a
> checklist of skills (from simple to complex) needed
> by
> staff when using Clicker,WWS,Powerpoint with
> students
> with SLD/autism/PMLD - ? We are going to run
> training
> for staff (a lot) in these programs very soon (!)
> and
> need to see where each person is starting from to
> plan
> groups
> If you can send any docs/lists  to me off-list I
> would
> be grateful !
> thanks
> David
> 
> 
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