A collection of early learning musical activities.

 

Free Play - Play the on-screen keyboard. Record and play back a sequence of notes. Choose a new voice to play back the same sequence. Record a sequence for someone else to copy.

 

Play the same note - A note is played - play the same note. Turn on a visual clue. Hide the keys entirely whilst the note is played. Experiment with different voices.

 

Play a lower note - A note is played - play a note that sounds lower. Turn on a visual clue. Hide the keys entirely whilst the note is played. Experiment with different voices. Although you can just keep hitting the top or bottom note on the keyboard as appropriate, there is the freedom for the teacher to say 'play one note higher', or 'see how close you can get to the note that is being played'.

 

Play a higher note - A note is played - play a note that sounds higher. Turn on a visual clue. Hide the keys entirely whilst the note is played. Experiment with different voices. Although you can just keep hitting the top or bottom note on the keyboard as appropriate, there is the freedom for the teacher to say 'play one note higher', or 'see how close you can get to the note that is being played.

 

How many notes? - A random sequence of notes is played. How many are played? Choose sequences between 1 and 3 notes or 4 and 7 notes. Choose whether the notes are spread over the whole keyboard or just the first 5 notes. Choose how long a pause is played between each note.

 

How does it sound? - Open ended. Play one of 15 sounds by clicking on a picture. Use the arrows to go to another sound. Click on the words to describe the sound. Type in your own words and print the screen. How might it represent that sound? What other ways could you represent the sound in a picture?

 

You can set targets at different levels, to gradually improve an individual's listening skills in a fun way. Use a mouse, keyboard, touch monitor, or IntelliKeys.

 

Download Music Games for Windows - 3Mb

 

Download Music Games for Mac - 3.5Mb

 

Download the Music Games documentation as a Word file (249k) or a PDF file (640k)

 

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Another free, switch accessible program from Inclusive.

 

Record your voice and hear it played back while a face animates!

 

Choose from seven faces:

• Alien

• Female

• Male

• Robot

• Simple

• Clown

• Santa Claus

 

Use one or two switch scanning, mouse or touch monitor and keyboard shortcuts.

Save the sound file to disc.

Set an automatic recording time out.

Download Talking Faces - 3.3Mb

 

Download help file as Word file (23k) or RTF file (10k).

 

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From the Northern Grid for Learning website...

"SENSwitcher is a suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children new to computers. It is, we believe, the first time anyone anywhere has developed an online switch enabled application which targets ICT skills from purely experiential through cause and effect, switch building, timed activation, targeting and row scanning."

 

"Programmed by Inclusive Technology, a world leading developer of software for special needs, it uses the latest Macromedia Flash technology to deliver 132 high quality animated activities which can be operated by a wide range of input devices. SENSwitcher has been designed as a progressive teaching and assessment tool and is accompanied by an 18 page set of teachers notes together with assessment records, developmental skills progression models and small step checklists linked to the QCA P Levels for ICT. These documents are available FREE from the download area (of the Northern Grid web site)."

"The program is available FREE to teachers, parents, care workers, if fact anyone who wants to use it. We hope you and your children enjoy it."

SENSwitcher online - Northern Grid for Learning

A free, switch accessible CD player for Windows 95 onwards.

 

It features:

• two different graphic styles

• one or two switch access

• mouse and keyboard access

• automatically remembers settings

• suitable for controlling from an IntelliKeys or Concept Keyboard

 

Download Inclusive CD Player - (2.2 Mb)

 

Download instructions as Word file (28 k) or RTF file (9 k).

 

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A stand-alone serial switch driver for Windows, programmed to send the standard keys of Space and Return. For single or two switch access. Option to send a continuous stream of key presses or a single key press. Send a selection of other commonly used key presses such as function keys and number keys.

 

Download Inclusive Serial Switch Driver - (1.2 Mb)

Free pictures from some Inclusive software. The pictures can be saved individually, or downloaded as collections in ZIP files.

 

Monsters

Pictures from SwitchIt! Scenes - (program available for Windows and Mac).

 

Animals

Pictures from My World - Animal Matching and My World - Animal Sorting (programs available for Windows and Acorn).

 

Flowering plants

Pictures from Living and Growing - Science KS1 (program available for Windows and Mac).

 

Spider and Friends!

Pictures from Early Math with Spider and Friends (program available on CD-ROM for Windows and Mac).