The Activites provide a comprehensive introduction to all of the
main features of the program. Each activity is designed to take
between 10 and 20 minutes, although the precise time will depend
on your own confidence with Windows.
Activities 1-7 cover the main aspects of using the program to create
materials for students to use.
Activities 8-12 introduce making on-screen grids for student writing.
Activities 13 and 14 are for more experienced users.
Activities 15 and 16 are for people working with switch users.
 1. Introduction to Writing with Symbols 2000 312KB
This worksheet is designed for people who have not used symbol
writing software. It gives an overview of the main features
of the program. It does not go into great depth on any point,
as each aspect of the program is followed up in other activity
sheets.
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2. Making symbol documents 157KB
This activity shows you how to write in symbols,
and how to get the symbol you want for a word. |
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3. Setting the display 143KB
There are many ways in which you can configure Writing with
Symbols. This will explain toolbars, text formatting, symbol
formatting, size, symbol color, line thickness, spacing,
qualifiers and saving settings. |
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4. Using the word processor 136KB
This activity explains why writing in text mode may be useful,
changing modes within a document and using the speech and
spell checker. |
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5. Adding a photograph 120KB
This activity explains how to use photos within Writing with
Symbols and how to add them to your wordlist. |
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6. Grids for printing 402KB
This activity explains how to set up and making grids along
with making a matching activity and using templates. |
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7. Wordlists explained 191KB
This activity explains all about wordlists, from what a wordlist
is to editing and merging wordlists. |
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8. Grids for writing 166KB
Writing with Symbols 2000 lets you create on-screen grids with
symbols, pictures and words, to meet individual requirements.
A set of on-screen grids with the writing document is called
a writing 'environment' because it contains all the content
and settings for that particular user or purpose. This activity
takes you through some examples of environments included with
the program. |
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9. Making a simple Wizard environment 378KB
This activity shows you how to create a very simple environment
using the wizard. |
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10. Making environments with linked grids 374KB
This activity shows you how to create a more complex environment
using the wizard. |
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11. Editing an environment and adding commands to a cell 226KB
This activity shows you two ways that you can edit an environment
and then shows you how to add commands to cells. |
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12. Environments with irregular grids 580KB
This activity follows on from activity 11 and deals with the
scanning sequence in grids that do not have a regular layout,
where you may have grouped cells. |
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13. Modifying wordlists in
the Resource Manager 212KB
This activity assumes that you have version 2.6 of Writing with
Symbols 2000, and will explain how to modify wordlists or add
symbols from other wordlists to create your own. |
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14. Using sound 162KB
You can attach sound (.wav) files to an entry in a wordlist.
This activity takes you through how to do this, through the
Writing with Symbols 2000 program or in the Resource Manager. |
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15. Switch access explained 168KB
The first part of this activity will look at the switch menus
and then relate these to two of the example environments. This
activity assumes that you are familiar with switch use and how
switches are connected to a computer. |
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16. Creating an environment for switch access 147KB
This activity will show you how to create a switch environment
with certain functions to aid navigation, and assumes that you
have already followed Activities 9 and 10 and are familiar with
using the wizard environment. |
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Writing with Symbols 2000 is published and distributed in the USA
by Mayer-Johnson LLC
These support pages have training materials and help sheets made
for the International English version. The features are identical
except that you will need to substitute the names of the wordlists
that are on your system, and you do not have the new Widgit Literacy Symbols
