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 * [[image:https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Me-ZEEZG0RF3S1pKyES3wdzMm40SY1Cn9KztNl1DuwkuTyhckN1PlIrvRuRroTdNtXm92-JKH_RixWJKNa_NP7SbV80sZLF3SWyKogE4G0g_Kuz7GQw]] || **Clicker 5** is a __fully customizable writing support and multimedia tool__  for children of all abilities, yet can be a valuable AT tool for students with special needs. Helps students strengthen and improve their literacy skills with __engaging, interactive learning activities__  that are tailored to student strengths and needs, and __tied to the curriculum__ . Students can boost their independence and confidence in reading and writing. __Structured support__  (scaffolding) is provided with customizable grids that can feature subject-specific picture symbols, letters, words, and/or phrases. Students are supported as they engage in __curriculum-focused__  reading and writing activities. ||


 * “ //Based on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Clicker offers a range of both curriculum and accessibility support to meet individual needs within the Individualized Education Program (IEP).”// [|www.cricksoft.com] ||

**Management** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">editing your Master Grid will automatically update all grids made from that Master ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Features:**// || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Overview:**// ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Split Screen** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">word processor (Clicker Writer) and word bank (Clicker Grid) with cells containing letters, words or phrases students can click on and send to word processor ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Multi-Sensory Approach** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">using words, pictures (over 1800 pics in its library, plus links to more, or use your own) sounds (including mp3 files) and (MPEG) videos, animations also available ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Personalized Scaffolding & Support** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">learning activities broken down into small steps that match the learning needs of the student; facilitates transitions for developing writers ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Point-and-Click Access** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pop-up grids are accessible using a mouse, touch screen, or switches ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Customizable Grids** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">match activities to student needs; ability to link grids together, grid templates available at <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[| www.learninggrids.com] ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Auditory Scanning** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">link between symbols or words and their sounds, hear the words before you 'write', talking books ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Visual Scanning** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">highlights the text as it's spoken ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Grid**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Accessible Document Format** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">documents saved in html format, so are accessible on any computer that is equipped with a web browser ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Appealing & Motivational** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">students who like using computers will find this program fun and easy to use ||


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Writing** || * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teaches left to right sentence construction
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Voice review of student writing samples encourages self-correction (sentences read out loud as they are completed)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lessons that target sequencing, sorting, matching, labelling
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing frames for discussions, procedures, recounting, explanations, and narratives
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students can create their own talking books ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Reading** || * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wide range of books available in all curriculum areas at a variety of reading levels: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|www.accessiblebookcollection.org] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> has over 100 Clicker books; over 70 talking books at <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|www.learninggrids.com]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Digital storytelling
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Highlights and reinforces key vocabulary
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Picture and symbol support for emergent readers; divided into curriculum-related folders
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explicitly and intuitively links reading and writing activities
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Full-screen grids available to create talking on-screen books or multi-media presentations ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-align: center; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">__WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM USING CLICKER 5?__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">3. A process for selecting the technology as an appropriate AT solution (Lisa) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Re: The process for selecting the technology as an appropriate AT solution…. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">How would a team that was interested in Clicker 5 know that it is a good fit for the student? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">For example, are there assessments or writing samples, keyboarding assessments, mouse control assessments, that the team should have the student complete to demonstrate the need of this AT software? What are the student considerations surrounding the selection of this software as an AT solution? What would the process be for the team to ascertain that this would be a good fit for the student as a reading or writing support? I’m looking for the data collection and trials part of things. =SELECTION PROCESS FOR CHOOSING CLICKER 5 AS AN ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION:= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">If a student is struggling with writing, either cognitively or physically, and struggles with written output in a way that slows down their productivity, then Clicker 5 may be an appropriate AT solution for them.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Students with...**// || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Support Provided by Clicker 5:**// ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Written Output Difficulties || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">students who have low written productivity, or struggle with organization or the formulation of ideas: students can click word banks to select word, phrase or pictures, automatically capitalizes, teaches sentence building/construction, student can write sentences without actually writing or using keyboard ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dyslexia || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">picture support, spell-checking, talking word processor (Clicker Writer, using Clicker Grids), talking books ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Language Delay or Deficit || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">students who read significantly below grade level; symbol sets provide visual supports for students who are emergent readers, have receptive or expressive language difficulties; are ESL, or who have communication needs ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Speech or Language Impairments || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">clicker with symbols, develop phonological awareness with visual/auditory cues, use of built-in speech as a communication aid ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Physical Disabilities || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">switch accessible writing and talking books, online keyboard and grids, write without using a standard keyboard, communication aid (built-in speech) ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Low Vision || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">zoom, high contrast colour, large toolbar, large fonts, variable line spacing, auditory scanning (high quality adjustable speech component), talking books ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Initial Diagnostic Assessments || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">writing samples; reading comprehension (phonological and auditory processing assessments, oral fluency, decoding skills); K-TEA (Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement); fine motor skills; obtain baseline data and determination of what student wants to do that they cannot currently do ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Identifying which IEP goals can be achieved with support of Clicker 5 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">increasing written output (i.e. student will compose 4 sentences with 5 words or more in their Journal on a daily basis, using Clicker 5); increasing reading comprehension; reducing need for visual supports when reading; building content-area vocabulary, increasing independence and self-confidence as a learner ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Trials of AT solutions || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">initial observation and trial of student trying Clicker 5 on a classroom/school computer to complete a classroom assignment (e.g. reading and writing about the life cycle of frogs); trials of other AT solutions also ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment of AT || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">determination if Clicker 5 is an appropriate AT solution for the student; (do they have a positive experience with it, find it increases their written output productivity, reading comprehension; confidence; self-esteem, etc.?); obtain feedback from student, as well as samples of the work they are producing ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Develop AT Implementation Plan || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">training and support provided to student and relevant staff members as Clicker 5 integrated into student’s educational program across curriculum areas ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ongoing support, follow-up and assessment || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">systematic ongoing assessment of Clicker 5’s effectiveness (i.e. student successfully uses Clicker 5 over time to increase written output productivity and success, as related to IEP goals); follow-up and planning for transitions - evaluate AT use regularly; reassess, plan for transition ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Summative Assessment || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">continuous evaluation of Clicker 5’s effectiveness as an AT solution is formalized at the end of each school term, as well as each school year; planning and considerations for transition ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TRAINING MATERIALS: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This link is to a YouTube playlist of Clicker 5 tutorials designed by Crick Software. In addition, there are 3 video tutorials demonstrating step by step use of Clicker 5. Topics covered by Crick Software tutorials include: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A PowerPoint presentation from Crick Software introducing Clicker 5. This introductory PowerPoint presentation gives a brief overview of the features of Clicker 5 and the functions that a user can expect upon accessing the program. Features introduced in this PowerPoint include: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a PowerPoint presentation created by a user of the Educational Software Wikispace detailing different topics with the use of screenshots. Topics covered by this step-by-step tutorial include: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A wide and diverse range of tutorial resources created by SET-BC (Special Education Technology British Columbia). Presentations, support materials, and video demonstration are provided to help with setting up and using the program. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video Presentations introducing basic features and uses of Clicker 5 include: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Support materials are in PDF file format and detail the following topics: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video Demonstrations on uses of Clicker 5 include: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This link is to a Clicker 5 tutorial in PDF file format from the Montgomery County Public School District in Maryland. The tutorial details steps on building Grids with Clicker Writer and Clicker Grid. Thorough text instructions are supplemented with screen shots which illustrate the maneuvers required with the program. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This link above from Bridges Canada provides a guide for the setup of image libraries within Clicker 5. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The above links provides a detailed library of PDF files detailing different uses, features, and tutorials for Clicker 5. This wide array of resources is courtesy of qdocuments.com, a internet file search engine. If you would like to narrow the scope of your search for Clicker 5 resources, type in specific search terms into the search toolbar for more precise documents meeting your needs. Tutorials and documents for Clicker 5 can be narrowed to the following file formats: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Note: A paid subscription is required to access video tutorials.** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The above link provides a wide set of video tutorials on working with Clicker 5 from Atomic Learning, an educational company based in the United Kingdom. Topics covered by the website include: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT MATERIALS <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This link provides 4 practical suggestions for teachers who are trying to integrate Clicker 5 with limited technology resources in the classroom. The suggestions below are targeted at classroom teachers with one to three classroom computers who also want to use the resource for the benefit of the entire class. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This PowerPoint from Cricksoft, makers of Clicker 5, details practical applications within a classroom. Practical applications for the following topics are covered:
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Clicker Writer
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Talking Books
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating Grids
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning Grids
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">EAL Learners
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Multimedia projects
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and Switch Access. ||
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit Mode
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pop-up Grids
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Clicker Explorer and much more ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Clicker 5 Templates
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit mode
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Book Making Instructions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sentence Building Instructions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Labelling ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ClickerWriter
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ClickerExplorer features
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">use of Learninggrids.com
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Modifying Clicker Grids and many others
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Modifying and Creating Grids
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating a Pop-up Grid
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using web images, and many others
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Overview of ClickerWriter
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Overview of Clicker Grids
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Navigating Clicker Explorer
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating Grids and many others ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/hiat/tech_quick_guides/Clicker5tutorial.pdf__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://bridgeslearning.pbworks.com/f/Clicker%2BManaging%2Blibraries.pdf]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://bridgeslearning.pbworks.com/f/Clicker%2BManaging%2Blibraries.pdf]
 * ======<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] ======
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PDF
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PPT
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DOC ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use of Clicker Writer
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Editing Clicker Grids
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using Sound and Video
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and Scan Highlights and Sounds ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a Clicker 5 word bank and talking processor. The word bank should include all words necessary for most sentences and more challenging words which the teacher would like students’ to incorporate into their writing.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Model usage of the word bank to students. The teacher should demonstrate how to use the keyboard and mouse to utilize word bank words for the word processor. As words are placed in the word processor, the teacher should demonstrate basic word processing tools available in Clicker 5 such as the talking spell-checker, text read aloud, and printing.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Provide students’ with time in the computer lab to demonstrate their knowledge of using the word bank and the talking word processor.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Offer students’ the chance to use the Clicker 5 word bank for their writing assignments. If computers are not readily available, it is suggested that the teacher print off copies of the word bank to provide for students’ to use so that the entire class can benefit from the Clicker 5 word bank. ||
 * ===__//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Suggestions for effective Clicker 5 implementation in classrooms: //__===
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grade-group collaboration to develop suitable grade-level word banks and lessons
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assess the benefits that Clicker 5 has for students’ with disabilities. Questions which may be helpful in learning about student abilities’ with Clicker 5:
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which students’ need to have writing read aloud to them?
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which students’ need the word bank to be read aloud to them?
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which students’ need additional support even with the word bank words provided and read aloud?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Send home work that students’ have produced using the word bank so that parents can gain an understanding of how their child is utilizing the program and how they may be able to support them
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Inform parents of the program ‘Natural Reader’. This free software is a read aloud text program that students can use at home as a support for homework and studying. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://www.cricksoft.com/Files/US-Clicker/ClickerInYourClassroomUS.pdf]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://www.cricksoft.com/Files/US-Clicker/ClickerInYourClassroomUS.pdf]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sentence Building
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Word Banks
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing Frames
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Talking Books
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Labeling
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sorting
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Matching
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sequencing ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning grids collection up kept by Crick software. This is a large resource bank where educators can also upload their own learning grids. Learning Grids are sorted by grade and topic of study. It is advised that teachers’ preview the grids before use as they are usually customized for a particular class/group. Teachers’ can edit and personalize the grid to suit their own class. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A wide range of tutorial resources created by SET BC. Presentations, support materials, and video demonstration are provided to help with setting up and using the program. || A website of digital texts for persons with disabilities. This website includes over 100 Clicker books for students to use. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Various Elementary-aged Clicker 5 activities on different topics from reading to math. || This Wikispace has links to a variety of online resources. Of particular note for students' is the Clicker Grids section created by contributing teachers. Although the website is no longer being updated, the Grids may be of use for elementary teachers. || This link from Learning Magic provides free sample Grids on various topics || Free text to speech software that students can use at home. The free version from Naturalsoft can be beneficial for students seeking to study and work at home. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">STUDENT RESOURCES: ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://www.learninggrids.com/us/SearchResults.aspx]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]
 * [|http://www.accessiblebookcollection.org]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">http://studentswithdifference.wikispaces.com/Clicker+5+Activities
 * http://clickerpedia.wikispaces.com/home
 * []
 * [|http://www.naturalreaders.com]

[] || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] || [|http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=sped_facpubs&sei-redir=1#search=%22http%3A%2F%2Fscholarworks.boisestate.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1004%26context%3Dsped_facpubs%26sei-redir%3D1%23search%3D%2522lesson%2520plans%2520clicker%25205%2522%22] || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=sped_facpubs&sei-redir=1#search=%22http%3A%2F%2Fscholarworks.boisestate.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1004%26context%3Dsped_facpubs%26sei-redir%3D1%23search%3D%2522lesson%2520plans%2520clicker%25205%2522%22] ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PRAISE FOR CLICKER 5: ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Occupational Therapist and Assistive Technology Specialist, Rose Racicot, has undertaken a study exploring the effects of using Clicker on the writing productivity of grade K-6 students with mild to moderate developmental delays. Ms. Racicot's results indicate that Clicker makes a significant difference to the independent writing productivity of students with autism, developmental delay, and learning disabilities, as demonstrated by the considerable growth in the participant's overall writing scores. “
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“In the UK, The University of Nottingham's Dr. Arjette Karemaker has also undertaken a Clicker study, assessing the effectiveness of Clicker on the literacy development of kindergarten-age students of varying ability levels. Dr. Karemaker's results showed increased performance gains across a broad range of basic literacy skills, from phonological awareness to recognizing high frequency keywords, after intervention with Clicker as compared to traditional pedagogical practices. She also found that Clicker increased computer enjoyment among students and teachers alike.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Clicker 5’s incorporation of pictures, including those supplied by teachers and students, increases student interest and engagement in literacy enhancement activities. The inherent flexibility of the program allows teachers to develop a variety of unique and individualized emergent literacy lessons. In addition, a wide variety of teacher resources that support the use of Clicker 5 in emergent literacy instruction (e.g., free ‘Clicker Grids’) is available on the internet.”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“In emergent literacy instruction, Clicker 5 holds great promise for the development and enhancement of five key emergent literacy skills”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">4. Training materials (e.g. quick start guides, tutorials, screen demonstrations, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">videos, etc.) that would help teams learn how to use the technology (Chris)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL80DEE35ACEF55D28__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- This is a Youtube playlist of Clicker 5 tutorials designed by Crick Software and 3 videos demonstrating step by step use of Clicker 5. Topics covered by Crick Software tutorials include: Clicker Writer, Talking Books, Creating Grids, Learning Grids, EAL Learners, Multimedia projects, and Switch Access.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">[|__http://www.cricksoft.com/Files/US-Clicker/Clicker5US.ppt__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- A Powerpoint presentation from Crick Software introducing Clicker 5. This introductory Powerpoint gives a brief overview of the features of Clicker 5 and the functions that a user can expect upon accessing the program.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">[|__http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/file/view/Clicker+5+Tutorial.pdf__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- This is a Powerpoint presentation detailing different topics with the use of screenshots. Topics covered by this step-by-step tutorial include: Clicker 5 Templates, Edit mode, Book Making Instructions, Sentence Building Instructions, and Labelling

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">[|__http://www.setbc.org/setbc/access/access_clicker5_resources.html__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- A wide range of tutorial resources created by SET BC. Presentations, support materials, and video demonstration are provided to help with setting up and using the program

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">[|__http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/hiat/tech_quick_guides/Clicker5tutorial.pdf__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- Clicker 5 Tutorial detailing steps on working with Clicker Writer and Clicker Grid

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">[|__http://www.atomiclearning.com/uk/en/clicker_5__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- Video tutorials on working with Clicker 5. A subscription is require for these tutorials

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">[|__http://bridgeslearning.pbworks.com/f/Clicker%2BManaging%2Blibraries.pdf__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- This link provides a guide for the setup of libraries within Clicker 5.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">[|__http://www.qdocuments.com/Clicker-5-Tutorial--PDF.htm__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">__http://studentswithdifference.wikispaces.com/Clicker+5+Activities__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- Various Clicker 5 activities on different topics

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">5. Implementation support materials (e.g. strategies and suggestions for integrating <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">the technology in classroom settings, lesson plans) (Chris)

<span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 1px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.learninggrids.com/us/SearchResults.aspx__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Learning grids collection up kept by Crick software. This is a large resource bank where educators can also upload their own learning grids. It is advised that teachers’ preview the grids before use as they are usually customized for a particular class/group. Teachers’ can edit and personlize the grid to suit their own class.

<span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 1px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.cricksoft.com/Files/US-Clicker/ClickerInYourClassroomUS.pdf__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Powerpoint showing practical applications within a classroom.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">[|__http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/hiat/tech_quick_guides/RoadmapClicker.pdf__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- This link provides 4 practical suggestions for teachers who are trying to integrate Clicker 5 with limited technology resources in the classroom. The suggestions below are targeted at classroom teachers with one to three classroom computers who also want to use the resource for the benefit of the entire class.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">1) Create a Clicker 5 word bank and talking processor. The word bank should include all words necessary for most sentences and more challenging words which the teacher would like students’ to incorporate into their writing. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">2) Model usage of the word bank to students. The teacher should demonstrate how to use the keyboard and mouse to utilize word bank words for the word processor. As words are placed in the word processor, the teacher should demonstrate basic word processing tools available in Clicker 5 such as the talking spell-checker, text read aloud, and printing. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">3) Provide students’ with time in the computer lab to demonstrate their knowledge of using the word bank and the talking word processor. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">4) Offer students’ the chance to use the Clicker 5 word bank for their writing assignments. If computers are not readily available, it is suggested that the teacher print off copies of the word bank to provide for students’ to use so that the entire class can benefit from the Clicker 5 word bank.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Suggestions for effective Clicker 5 implementation in classrooms: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- Grade-group collaboration to develop suitable grade-level word banks and lessons <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- Assess the benefits that Clicker 5 has for students’ with disabilities. Questions which may be helpful in learning about student abilities’ with Clicker 5: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">a) Which students’ need to have writing read aloud to them? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">b) Which students’ need the word bank to be read aloud to them? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">c) Which students’ need additional support even with the word bank words provided and read aloud? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- Send home work that students’ have produced using the word bank so that parents can gain an understanding of how their child is utilizing the program and how they may be able to support them <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">- Inform parents of the program ‘Natural Reader’. This free software is a read aloud text program that students can use at home as a support for homework and studying.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">6. Student resources for using the technology (e.g. Clicker grids, Kurzweil 3000 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">annotated text, links to switch games) (Chris)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Within the Clicker 5 program, there are several tools which will be of particular help to beginner and struggling readers who have difficulties with language output. The first tool that students will need to become accustomed to will be the Clicker Grids. Clicker Grids have many different cells which contain words, phrases, or pictures which form a word bank for the student. To help with comprehension of words in the word bank, students can also have the words read aloud to them.

<span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 1px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Word banks can be subject specific and can be edited by the teacher to reflect the nature of the student and the rest of the class. A set of Clicker Grids are available at <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.learninggrids.com/us/SearchResults.aspx__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Grids at this website are compiled based on subject matter and age and will provide a general template for teachers’ to use for their class.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Another useful tool within the Clicker 5 program is Talking Books. Students and teachers are able to create their own books using different pictures, texts, sounds, or videos which are customized for the learning style, ability, and interest of the reader. By writing their own books, students are able to practice fluency and independence in reading. Books can be printed for further practice away from the computer.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">For a student struggling with reading, a part of the program which may be useful for recording work is the ‘Microphone’ icon within the Talking books. Students can record their own voices as they read through text and these recordings can be used as evidence of their work on assessments for their progress as some students may be reluctant to share their knowledge through writing.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">7. Examples of successful implementation of the technology in the classroom <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">setting

<span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 1px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Occupational Therapist and Assistive Technology Specialist, Rose Racicot, has undertaken a study exploring the effects of using Clicker on the writing productivity of grade K-6 students with mild to moderate developmental delays. Ms. Racicot's <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__//results indicate that Clicker makes a significant difference to the independent writing productivity of students with autism, developmental delay, and learning disabilities, as demonstrated by the considerable growth in the participant's overall writing scores.//__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“

<span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 1px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“In the UK, The University of Nottingham's Dr. Arjette Karemaker has also undertaken a Clicker study, assessing the effectiveness of Clicker on the literacy development of kindergarten-age students of varying ability levels. Dr. Karemaker's <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__//results showed increased performance gains across a broad range of basic literacy skills, from phonological awareness to recognizing high frequency keywords, after intervention with Clicker as compared to traditional pedagogical practices.//__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> She also found that Clicker increased computer enjoyment among students and teachers alike. <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 1px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://closingthegap.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6787__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> )

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">“Clicker 5’s incorporation of pictures, including those supplied by teachers and students, increases student interest and engagement in literacy enhancement activities. The inherent flexibility of the program allows teachers to develop a variety of unique and individualized emergent literacy lessons. In addition, a wide variety of teacher resources that support the use of Clicker 5 in emergent literacy instruction (e.g., free ‘Clicker Grids’) is available on the internet.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">“In emergent literacy instruction, Clicker 5 holds great promise for the development and enhancement of five key emergent literacy skills”

<span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 1px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__(http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=sped_facpubs&sei-redir=1#search=%22lesson%20plans%20clicker%205%22__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> )

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