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Clicker is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, writing support and multimedia tool that enables children to write with whole words, phrases or pictures. Clicker 4 is the talking word processor that has the ability to combine graphics, text, and speech to support students' reading and writing skills.
This set of 5 tutorials, with information pertaining to both the Win and Mac platforms, has been developed to facilitate an easy and stress-free start to using the powerful features of Clicker 4 to support classroom reading and writing activities.
For more information and resources on Clicker visit their website at http://www.cricksoft.com.
Clicker 4 narrated Demonstration Modules
In these narrated software demonstrations, assistive technology consultant Lois Turner, SET-BC, guides you step-by-step through the basic features of Clicker 4. This set of tutorials was developed by Micki Nakashima, SET-BC. Lois has added the narrated software demonstrations for the Windows version of Clicker 4 .
The sections are short and topic specific. We hope Clicker 4 users will find this information readily available and useful.
Notes:
Controls for viewing narrated demonstration files:
- Press ALT + Enter to see the full screen as you view the demonstrations.
- Press ESC to exit full screen mode if you wish to see pause / play buttons.
- Corresponding print tutorials are available for download on this webpage.
- The print tutorials include information for Windows and Mac operating systems.
In this tutorial you will learn how to: Launch the Clicker 4 program, Log in, Use the On-Line tutorial, Write using the keyboard, Change user preferences for picture and speech support, and Using a grid to enter text into Clicker Writer.
This tutorial explores the use of clicker grids. Clicker grids can contain graphic boxes, text boxes and/or cells. Cells can contain both graphics and text and action commands that are sent to Clicker Writer. Grids can be used as an on-screen input method.
An important skill in using grids is the ability to modify the content for individual needs. In this tutorial you will learn how to: quickly modify existing Clicker 4 grids to change the text, the graphics, and the contents that are sent to Clicker Writer and also make changes to the size, colour and font colour of cells.
In this tutorial you will learn how to: create new grids with cells, add text, delete cells, add cells, save grids, determine what to send, and create your own custom designed grids. Clicker 4 ships with templates for word banks, sentence writing, picture grids and book making grids. You will also explore the use of templates to create new grids.
In this tutorial you will learn how to link grids.
In this tutorial you will learn how to customize your own grid.
In this tutorial you will learn how to get images using Google and import them into Clicker 4.
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