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SwitchIt! Maker 2

 

SwitchIt! Maker 2 will turn your text, images, movies and sounds into simple on-screen activities. These activities are automatically accessible using a mouse, whiteboard, touch monitor, keyboard, one or two switches or IntelliKeys. Make talking books starring your pupils, or a slide show of a recent trip. Put that digital camera to good use!

SwitchIt! Maker 2 is especially designed so that children can make activities as part of a lesson. It’s that easy! SwitchIt! Maker 2 first asks you to choose a layout for a new page - do you want words with a picture, or just a picture? Then add an image or some video. Type in the text using your keyboard or the on-screen keyboard (great on an interactive whiteboard), then add some voiceover or load some music. That’s it! Export and import features let you transfer your activities to other computers or onto CD, etc. Also included is a freely copiable “player” version so students can take their activities home.

The program also has over 1,500 useful example files, including a selection of PCS symbols from Mayer-Johnson and Rebus Symbols from Widgit, clip-art pictures, sample videos and music. It also allows you to import a wider range of image and sound files than ever before.

SwitchIt! Maker 2 allows you to make a huge range of activities for your learners.
It also includes a selection of example activities to get you started. Best of all, students can make activities themselves. Put it on an interactive whiteboard and watch them fly!

Here are just a few things you can create: 


• A slide show tour of your school or town, to send to your overseas partner schools.
• A pictorial journal of a class trip to the farm, the museum, the fire station - anywhere!
• Pictures or videos of a class drama project. Students can record their lines straight into SwitchIt! Maker 2. (This is highly motivating for reluctant speakers.)
• A storybook with your students' own pictures.

• A slide show with photos of children in a class, to give to a new child who is soon to join.
• A sequence of photos and symbols showing the order of activities through the day.
• A 'big and small' activity using photos of familiar food.
• A Kim's game activity with photos of familiar food.
• A sequence of simple images and videos for visual stimulus with students with profound learning difficulties.
• A multimedia 'life story', CV or 'Communication Profile' for a student about to start work experience.
• A self-running rolling presentation of children at work for display in your school's reception area on open days/parents' evenings.
• A demonstration of how to make a cup of tea, using photos or videos
 

Windows: Compatible with Win95 and later versions

Mac: Non-Compatible Switch Access: Yes

Recommended for: Early Learning

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