Getting started in Adult Literacy and Numeracy

DAY 4 – Session SevenICT Handouts

IT1. Glad or sadIT2. CLAN Resource baseIT3. ICT programme and ideasIT4. Deaf ways to learnIT5. Inspiration – Mind MappingIT6. Try it outIT7. Drop Down ListsIT8. Sample sentence structure

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What makes you feelglad about using computers or mobile phones?

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What makes you feel sad about using computers or mobile phones?

Contact details Opening Times

Portacabin Monday9.30 – 4.305 & 7 Regent Road Tuesday 9.30 – 4.30EdinburghWednesday 9.30 – 12.30EH7 5BLThursday 9.30 – 12.30 Tel 0131 550 6832Fax 0131 270 6074Email resources@clanedinburgh.org

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CLAN Resource Base is a multi media resource centre for literacy and numeracy practitioners in Edinburgh.

We are open to anyone designing and delivering courses, training programmes and projects with literacy and numeracy content.

We also hold resources on literacy, numeracy, ESOL and ICT.

As a member you can:

browse our collection get advice and information search our catalogues borrow books and packs copy and print materials, posters and booklets use our computers to go online, view software

and prepare material borrow ICT equipment.

As a guest you can do all of the above except borrow equipment. To join, simply speak to a member of staff.

Reprographics

We offer a reprographics service producing posters, leaflets, booklets and magazines in black and white or colour. We can also provide short demonstrations on using a scanner, printer, laminator and comb binder.

For your use in the Resource Base, we have:

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a suite of laptops with high speed broadband Internet access

colour and black and white printing, scanning and photocopying facilities

reprographics tools (see above)

We have a range of software you can try out in the Resource Base, including: Inspiration, Read & Write, , Star Spell, Numbers for Life, Smart Spender, Dragon Naturally Speaking and much more!

We can lend you

laptop computers printers and combined printer / copier / scanners digital cameras, digital camcorders wire free mice and keyboards calculators, spellcheckers, reading pens digital projectors combined TV / video Interactive Whiteboard/E-beam Tablet Laptop

Borrowing Items

We have a wide range of print resources and ICT equipment for loan. Please ask staff and refer to Loan Policy leaflet for full details.Where is CLAN Resource Base?

The Resource Base is now located within the same complex as Edinburgh University Settlement

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(Old Royal High School). From the east end of Princes Street, walk up Waterloo Place to Regent Road. Car parking is available.

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Resource Base Portacabin

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Resource Base Portacabin

Go through the gates at New Parliament House (Old Royal High School).Walk past all buildings until you see the Portacabin at the end.

Think about ways you could use these programs with the people you work with…

Program like…why?

don’t like…why?

Ideas

Word

Inspiration

Powerpoint

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Program like…why?

don’t like…why?

Ideas

Moviemaker

Comic Life

Wheel CD

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Program like…why?

don’t like…why?

Ideas

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In Pairs

Task: plan an activity for a learner (group of learners) you are working with, using or adapting ideas from a resource pack

think about learner/s you work with

what do they want to learn more about? (learning goal/s)

have a look at the resources which may help you make an activity

talk about your ideas and note them below

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Name of resource: ____________________________

Planned activity:

How does this fit with the learner’s goal/s?

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Deaf ways to learn (inspiration file converted into Word)

Learning Styles

Visual

Auditory

underline using highlighters and coloured pencils

find textbooks with diagrams and

images

Discuss and share with others

Use verbal mnemonics Acrostics & acronyms

'buried under robbie's granny's house'

(for 'burgh')

Rules e.g. "i before e, except

after c"

Link words to a story, use rhyme

and rhythm

use music as trigger

Dramatise, play charades and verbal games

Kinesthetic

Reduce to main principles

make it concrete with v is its and real

li fe materials

Classify using post i ts ,

highlighters

Read /Write

use handouts with a c lear layout: main points, bulleted i tems, ideas in

write notes with lists, headings,

defini tions

Use examples to help with abstract

ideas

Catch the right flight tonight

make mindmaps, spiders, use colour

coding, pictures, symbols

organise and sequence with cut up

text and post-its

use coloured paper

look for books with info in sentences, turn diagrams into

statements

connect learning to a scene you

visualise

"Hands on" approach with

tasks

Inspiration – Mind Mapping

You will have a file on your CD called Learning Styles. This mind map was made using Inspiration. Have a look at the file to see how ideas have been organised and linked, using words, images and arrows.

What do you think of this way of presenting ideas/concepts?

Try it out!

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Work in pairs.

Look back at your thoughts about using computers and mobile phones. Use these ideas to make a mind map.

Open the program from the desktop – double click on the Inspiration icon.

Click on Create a mind map

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Type in your main idea in the central bubble.

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Type in your ideas by clicking on the branch

Use the search box to look for images

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Browse the libraries

Word – drop down lists

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To add an image, click on a branch, then the image. OR Click on the image and drag it to a position on your map.

To add more branches, click on the wee symbol.

What are Drop Down lists?Drop down lists allow you to make up a page of text or individual sentences with gaps where you can ask the student to choose a word. (This kind of gap activity is knows as Cloze). You might use these drop down lists for filling a gap within a sentence with an appropriate adjective or adverb. You can also offer a choice of words that can / cannot form a complete sentence. A drop down list can look like these:

Notice how character spaces have been added before and after the drop down list, so that it does not obscure the other words.

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N.B. Drop down lists don’t appear on the printed page. The page prints out with the chosen words.

How to use drop down lists:

Open a blank page in Word.

Open the Forms Toolbar by going to the menus at the top of the screen and choosing View, Toolbars, Forms.

Form Options Padlock

Position the cursor where you want your list to appear. Click the Drop Down Form Field icon (third from left), now click on the Form Field Options icon (fourth from left). Here you can enter and change your list. Your first item could be ‘ ………… ‘ or ‘choose from: ’.

When you have finished adding to your list, you can change the order words appear in using the move arrows on the right. It is a good idea to put a couple of character spaces before and after each word you add so that they are clear on screen (rather than tight in the box). Finally click on OK.

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You can now move on to making up a new sentence or group of sentences with drop down lists.

When you have finished making all of your drop down lists, lock the forms using the padlock icon on the toolbar. You can now test each list by moving your cursor to the drop down box and clicking on the arrow at the right.

If you are familiar with the tools for changing font colour and using highlighter ‘pens’ you might want to experiment with colouring your drop down lists. This is slightly difficult as it requires good coordination.

Later on, you may want to add more text to the page or change the drop down lists. To do this, you need to unlock the forms by going to View, Toolbars, Forms and clicking on the padlock icon.

In Pairs

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Task: plan an activity for a learner (group of learners) you are working with, using or adapting ideas from a resource pack

think about learner/s you work with

what do they want to learn more about? (learning goal/s)

have a look at the resources which may help you make an activity

talk about your ideas and note them below

_________________________________________________

Name of resource: ____________________________

Planned activity:

How does this fit with the learner’s goal/s?

Tenses

Past tense

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Yesterday I feel ill.

Present

Today I felt better.

Future

Tomorrow I will feel good.

Punctuation

Each sentence needs:a question mark

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or

an exclamation mark ora full stop

1. Where is the car park ?2. Watch out ?3. Do you like pumpkin soup ?4. Yesterday I went swimming

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