Unlocking Potential

Personalisation in practice …and in budget

Enabling learners to demonstrate, record and showcase their

achievements without spending very much money.

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Innovation on a budget - 1

Giving learners alternative formats• Talking Word or PowerPoint• Text to MP3• Text to Mindmap• PowerPoint to Mobile phone• Teacher paced explanation to student paced

explanation.• Multiply accessible resources – eg Xerte.

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Innovation on a budget - 2

Learners creating new types of evidence• Sound recordings• Video without the camera• Video with a camera• Mindmaps

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How to capture innovation

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An e-Folio application designed for Specialist Colleges

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• An open source e-Folio application designed and commissioned by four colleges and JISC TechDis working with the Rix Centre.

• An open source application that will be free to use and is being trialled in Colleges now

• Designed to encourage the direct use of multimedia materials by our learners to their advantage

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features

• Easy to use pages that can hold text, images and movie clips.

• The option for learners to use a picture log in rather than hard to remember passwords

• A facility for staff to upload materials in bulk and allocate them to learners.

• A switch operated page reader with easy login feature.

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Easy to use pages that can hold text, images and movie clips.

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The option for learners to use a picture log in rather than hard to remember passwords

Unlocking Potential

A facility for staff to upload materials in bulk and allocate them to learners.

Unlocking Potential

A switch operated page reader with easy login feature.

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For more information

• www.techdis.ac.uk/getcreating• www.techdis.ac.uk/getcreation• www.techdis.ac.uk/getfreesoftware• InFolio information – contact

helpdesk@techdis.ac.uk