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Clicker 5 ANZ (Australian/New Zealand Version)

 

Clicker is a powerful yet easy-to-use writing support and multimedia tool that enables children to write with whole words, phrases or pictures

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What is Clicker?
Clicker is an onscreen keyboard with speech. Each key (or cell) can hold a letter, word, phrase or picture. When you click on a cell in a Clicker grid, the text and graphic in the cell is sent into the built-in word processor – Clicker Writer. Cells can also speak their text using the built-in software speech, and you can record your own voice directly into a cell!

Do you work with early readers and writers? Do you want to extend your older writers? Do you need to support your struggling writers? Then Clicker is for you.

Children can write with whole words, phrases or pictures by clicking on cells in a ‘grid’. Grids can be linked so that students can move through them in a sequence, offering scaffolding through written tasks, and access to an unlimited number of words or pictures. Reluctant or struggling writers really achieve success as they write in a way that they have never done before.

Words in the grid can be spoken with a right-click, enabling the student to hear a word before writing it. Sentences in the word processor are read aloud automatically as they are completed with a full stop. The child’s writing can be printed out or saved in HTML format, so that school children can publish their work on the school website.

Clicker Grids are amazingly easy to create – use words from reading books or the current topic in your classroom. Lots of ready-made grids are included with the program, and thousands more are available online at Crick Software’s free website of resources at LearningGrids ANZ and LearningGrids.com (UK and US) (over 70,000 registered users).

Clicker is also a powerful tool for creating multimedia presentations which can be enhanced with digital photographs, sound and video. For example, children can make simple talking books, produce a multimedia guide to the school or create collaborative onscreen presentations.

Click here for the ANZ Resource CD to upgrade to Clicker 5 ANZ if you already own the UK version of Clicker 5!

View latest features in the Clicker 5.2 update
Click here to see an MS PowerPoint presentation of What’s New in Clicker 5 ~ 2 MB

Need to add word prediction into your Clicker 5 Grids?
Good news! Clicker 5 now works with Penfriend XP and Penfriend XL version 3.0.4.7 or later. If you have an older version of Penfriend XP or XL you can download an upgrade to the latest Penfriend version that will support Clicker (version 5.2 onwards); this upgrade can be downloaded from the Penfriend downloads website.

 

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