Course: Use of ICT

General

Here you will find a collection of ICT-based resources, embedded videos and links to support children at all stages of learning EAL

Announcements Forum

Aide-mémoire of best practice principles

ICT aide-memoire

Use of ICT to support EAL learners File

Translation Tools

Microsoft Translator - videos courtesy of Glasgow EAL service

Induction

google earth

Using Google Earth for induction, orientation and integration File

Encouraging oracy

recorders

Ideas for using oral recording devices File

Supportive wordprocessors and soft keyboard helper applications

Book Creator

This has an audio recording facility alongside other more traditional word processing tools. Book creator is now available in 10 languages. There is an example below (click the image to start reading) about how this tool can be used to support pupils learning EAL.

Supporting Language Learners with Book Creator

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

https://read.bookcreator.com

Clicker Writer from Cricksoft (available for Windows/Mac, iOS and Chromebook)

Clicker Writer features realistic speech feedback, talking spell checker, audio note recorder and an intelligent word prediction tool. You can integrate images with text and access Clicker's expanding bank of word grids to support the writing process.

Grammarly helper application

This is an application as well as a plugin for browsers and other wordprocessors that supports the writing process in lots of sophisticated ways.

Texthelp's read&write helper application

From hearing emails or documents read out loud to text prediction, picture dictionaries, summary highlighters and a grammar, spelling and confusable words checker, read&write makes lots of everyday literacy tasks simpler, quicker and more accurate (from https://www.texthelp.com/en-gb/products/read-write)

Note: read&write as an application is a subscription-based model but educators can get a free license. There are also free plugins for browsers.

Watch a walkthrough of all the major tools in read&write below: