[senit] Clicker 5 switch access

Since Barry did a test drive on the original solution I've found another (simpler) way to achieve what's needed. If anyone else wants a copy, let me know.

Kevin

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From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of barry andrews
Sent: 26 March 2008 14:03
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Subject: Re: [senit] Clicker 5 switch access

My previous message got truncated.

  I meant to add that Kevin from Crick sent me the grid set and instructions to use and it worked well. It uses some features of Clicker and the Crick switch box that I didn't know existed.

  Regards

  Barry

barry andrews <barryandy1966 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
  Andrew

It's possible to set up what you need in another way. It involves making one cell play the sound/video in another cell. This is a feature available in any cell.

It would be easier for anyone who wants a way to do this to email me off list and I'll send the details (and a grid set up to do it).

Kevin

Andrew Walker wrote:
Thank You Kevin and Paul and also Andrew (the true genius), Although the page up, page down, suggestion doesn't directly solve the problem I posed, I can see that I could get the result I wanted by using this. I want to present a child with a choice of two videos to play. Press one switch you get one video, press the other switch and you get the other video. Ideally I wanted this to stay on one page, in order to present the same choice again. However I can see now that there is no particular need to have only one page.

If you could manage to solve the problem of individual switches addressing individual cells, I would use it to build pages with up to four cells to choose from, one for each of the switches attached to the Crick switch box.It just seemed to me that it ought to be possible. For the time being I will go with your suggestion.

Once again many thanks,

Andrew Walker
ICT Coordinator
Exeter House School
Salisbury
SP1 3BL

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[mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Kevin Lynch
Sent: 22 March 2008 13:48
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: Re: [senit] Clicker 5 switch access

As much as I appreciate Paul's description, I must point out that that the true genius is my colleague, Andrew Burt, who supplied me with the answer.
It works for the book but doesn't quite do what was asked for in the original question.

In Clicker 5, it's not possible to assign a switch to a particular cell.
That doesn't mean that you can't get it to do what's needed here. It would depend on what you want to happen after the cell has been activated. Do you want to stay on the same grid or open another one?

Kevin

I asked Kevin Lynch at Crick this very question last week (i.e. how can you click a switch to turn pages in a Clicker book directly, without scanning) and being a genius, he came up with an answer, which is:

Set Clicker 5 user access to none (i.e. not scanning)

Open USBKeys and set the switches as follows:

Switch 1 Ctrl-Page Down (next page in the Clicker book) Switch 2 Ctrl-Page Up (previous page in the Clicker book) Switch 3 Ctrl-End (reads the text box content)

Et voila - direct switch access to the Clicker book!

Paul

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Subject: [senit] Clicker 5 switch access

Hi All,

Does anyone know how I can set up a (non sending) Clicker 5 grid with only two cells, to accept direct switch access from two switches withoutscanning..

i.e. I want the left switch to activate the cell on the left and the right switch to activate the cell on the right. (Both cells play video clips when
activated.)

It seems as though this should be possible but I'm struggling with it at the moment.

Thanks,

Andrew Walker

ICT Coordinator

Exeter House School

Salisbury

Andrew Walker
ICT Coordinator
Exeter House School
Salisbury
SP1 3BL

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