Lincoln Logs at Annie's Resource Attic

Annie's Resource Attic has just posted a great new activity around Lincoln Logs and log cabins. She explains it far better than I ever could so head over and check it out!

P.S. As always she has Clicker5, Classroom Suite, Dynavox and PowerPoint versions of various options.

Downloading Activities

I traditionally spend Sunday evening moving all of the Boardmaker, Classroom Suite and Clicker 5 things I will use during the week onto my travel disk drive so that I can import them into my classroom computers (one set up for switch users and two for touchscreen or head tracker users). This means that whenever I can I download any activities I find online and save them to use when they fit into my curriculum.

Today (while updating the Free Boardmaker Boards and Activities Permanent Post) I discovered some great new activities at My Dynamic Therapy. Be sure to check them out.

Also be sure you are getting the monthly downloads from Mayer-Johnson and the boards everyone posts at the Yahoo Boardmaker Group.

Website of the Day: Annie's Resource Attic

Annie's Resource Attic is a site for teachers that offers activities and animations for download in a variety of formats including Classroom Suite, Clicker 5, My Own Bookshelf, Power Point and Test Me, Score Me. This is the "attic" of the Anne Brundige studio..

All activities are free, list suggested ability level (cause and effect and up) and have a description of the activity. The site is set up like a blog and can be subcribed to using an RSS reader like Google Reader or Bloglines.

Activity Sharing

Official AAC Software and Devices Sharingweb Sites

• AMDI Activity Exchange
• Crick Clicker5 Learning Grids
• Dynavox - none (although there are some files for download they are not true "sharing")
• Intellitools Classroom Suite Activities Exchanges
• Mayer-Johnson Boardmaker, Boardmaker Plus, Boardmaker Speaking Dynamically Pro Adapted Learning
• Prentke Romich Teaching Materials Exchange 
• Proloquo2Go - None 
• Satillo - None
• Tango- None
• Tico Projects
• Tobii Communicator/Viking Communicator and Symbolmate Page Set Central

Other Places to Find Materials:
(B=Boardmaker, WWS=Writing with Symbols, CS=Classroom Suite, Click=Clicker5)

• Baltimore City School Boardmaker Adapted Books (B)
• Behavior Boards (B)
• Boardmaker Yahoo Group (B)
• Burnaby Boardmaker Resources (B)
• Call Centre Boardmaker Files (B)
• Cindy's Activities (B, WWS)
• Clickerpedia (Click)
• Communication Overlays (B)
• Creative Communicating Freebies (I+)
• Dade School Resources (B)
• Dilite Activity Boards (original)
• Dynavox Board Downloads (UK Site)
• Dynavox Page Exchange (D 2c and 3100)
• East Gippsland Boardmaker Support Group (B)
• Eau Claire School Boardmaker Files (B)
• Engineering the Classroom Boards
• Fairfax County Boardmaker Activities (B)
• Gateway Communication Board
• How to make a back up copy of Boardmaker
• Intellitools Activities Exchanges (CS)
• Jewish Picture Sets
• Kidspiration Collection (K)
• Learning Grids (Clicker/Clicker Paint)
• Mayer-Johnson Activity of the Month (B, SDP)
• Mayer-Johnson Sharing (B, SDP)
• My Dynamic Therapy (b, i, dynavox)
• NYC AAC Resouces (B,WWS, I)
• OATC Activity Exchange (b,i,c,k)
• PictureSET (B)
• Print and Teach Free Stuff
• Project Participate Curriculum Creations (b, wws, i)
• Queensland Boardmaker Resources (B,C,D,I)
• Reducing the Risk (b)
• Region 2 Library
• Speaking of Speech Materials Exchange (B)
• Spectronics Activities Exchange
• Speech Games (B)
• Sunrise Boards (B, PDF)
• Switch Use Resources (PPT)
• Teacher Created Resources (B,S,I)
• Text Communication Board
• Tinsnips Boards (B, PDF)

Website of the Day - Clickerpedia

My new Australian friend from the Assistive Tech and TLWMSN social networks on Ning has created a page called Clikerpedia.

Clickerpedia is a great resources for all things Clicker 5. It includes downloads of activities and templates, tutorials and multi-media references, links to free resources and quick tips.

Check it out.

Clicker 5

On Thursday the postman delivered Clicker 5 to my door. I spent a frustrating couple of evenings trying to figure out why everyone said it was so easy before I discovered a few online tutorials. The video ones at Kent School and Atomic Learning were particularly helpful. Crick Software, Call Centre and Kent School have nice print tutorials too.

Once I got a hang of the basics making activities was easy. I even uploaded a unit on jobs for older learners with special needs and a few other activities to learninggrids.com. Learning Grids is an online resource of Clicker grids that others have made to share. There are quite a few activities here to check out.

I have also found a few sites (besides learning grids) that have activities to download:

• Kent School
• Queensland Activity Sharing
• Spectronics
  
• Special Education Supports
• SET BC Accessible Books
  
• Curriculum SET
  
• Learning Magic (for $$$)
  

I am pretty excited to try these lessons out with my students tomorrow. I will write another review or two as I experiment more.