Date: 10/26/2023 Time: 4:00-5:00 Location: internet Type: Webinar
Description
Are you finding a gap in AT support for students who are emerging writers? Do you need a tool with a wider continuum of support from beginning sentence writing to paragraph writing? Clicker 8 and Clicker Writer are UDL tools that have flexible support for ALL writers and can be used in general education to access curriculum. This one hour webinar will demonstrate the multimedia reading and writing support features and grid sets of Clicker 8 software and Clicker Writer app. Clicker allows scaffolding of reading and writing supports, including pictures and videos, text to speech, speech to text, word banks, word prediction, graphic organizers, voice notes and a paint program to meet the unique needs of each learner. Clicker Analytics will allow educators to easily capture writing data and track the progress of their students. Join us to learn more and ask questions about how Clicker can benefit your students.
Learning Objectives
1. Participants will name 2 ways the multimedia features of Clicker 8 and Clicker Writer support diverse learning needs and inclusion of students in general education classrooms.
2. Participants will compare and contrast how the features of Clicker can be customized to meet the needs of emerging writers as well as intermediate writers.
3. Participants will explain how to select Clicker 8 pre-made content from the Learning Grids website to meet the curriculum needs of their students.
Presenters
Rose Racicot, MS, OTR/L
Rose is an OT and Assistive Technology Specialist in Bellevue School District and at the Special Education Technology Center at CWU with 34 years of experience. Her passion is to help school districts and educators implement Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to create inclusive classrooms for all students to succeed. Rose facilitates learning experiences on UDL, literacy support software, educational iPad apps, and accessibility features across platforms at the local, state, and national level both in-person and through remote learning.
Toni Caggiano, Cricksoft
Contact
Email Sue Wright at the SETC office
Zoom Link
Clock hours for this webinar and others in this series are available from ESD105 for a small fee. The following Professional Development Enroller link provides more information about clock hours: https://www.pdenroller.org/cwu/catalog/165361