Blog for Tuesday, October 18
Today I was rummaging through a bag that I won at "Closing the Gap" and found a list of apps for the iPad/iPod that help students with communcation difficulties. One of the apps that caught my eye, and was purchased, was Pictello.
Pictello is an app by a company called AssistiveWare that helps students create talking stories and photo albums. It can be used to create stories to teach social skills or to recall events, make photo albums to allow non-speaking people to share their news and interests, share important events and memories with family who live far away, make talking books, teach narrative skills as part of a literacy or language skills curriculum, create schedules and task instructions, share stories or write group stories using iPad on a VGA monitor or interactive white board (VGA adapter required), and create multilingual stories using text-to-speech or voice recordings (AssistiveWare, 2010).
Check out this video: Introduction to Pictello
What a neat way for students to write a story and be engaged through the creative process.
References
AssistiveWare. (Designer). (2010). Introduction to pictello.
[Web Video]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B6ld4KaDWA&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
AssistiveWare. (2010). Pictello - visual stories for everyone. Retrieved from http://www.assistiveware.com/pictello.php
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