GoWorksheet PLUS vs Animega

GoWorksheet PLUS takes printed classroom worksheets and tests and makes them accessible with an iPad! Quickly turn printed worksheets and tests into work all your students can use. Bring in an image or take a photo of the worksheet, and customize it for your student's needs. Customization includes added word banks, allowance of tapping to fill multiple choice answers, drag and drop answers, virtual manipulative for counting exercises, line matching, or audio output that includes more detailed instructions or additional prompting. Two versions of the GoWorksheet app are available. GoWorksheet PLUS is for adding accessibility alternatives to a worksheet so all students can complete the same work. GoWorksheet is for filling out customized worksheets. Capturing text with OCR (optical character recognition) is a useful tool for creating an enhanced worksheet. Text that is to be read aloud can either be keyed in or added with the built-in OCR that identifies text on the screen. Word banks are another useful tool. For questions with short answers, the keyboard pops up when tapped. Instead of typing the answer, a student may select the answer from a teacher-created word bank. Use the AAC toolbar for quick access to messages. Once a GoWorksheet is created, multiple ways are available for the teacher to share it with the student, and for the student to return the completed worksheet. Sharing options include AirDrop, email, any cloud storage set up on the iPad (such as Google Drive or Dropbox), print, or save to Photos.

Animega-interactive sentences stimulates language and communication development in learners beginning to explore the mysteries of the written language. What do the letters represent? How can they represent words, sentences and events? NOTE, this is the Lite version with very limited content! The language content of the program is meant to be explored by the learner with help from – and in interaction with – a teacher or parent. The language material and the appended animations do not only offer motivational literacy training but also creates moments for conversations where the learner can express his or her imagination and thoughts. Animega-is consists of a total of 66 tasks (exercises) distributed over six levels. The rich material (> 250 words/phrases and > 6000 sentences) can be accessed through two different routes: Create and Test. In short, the learner can either generate interesting animated events by using text buttons to create sentences, or test his or her proficiency by first viewing the event, then choosing words to create the sentence that best represents what he or she has just viewed. Animega-is is an evidenced based app. There are to date more that 20 scientific publications supporting the theory that has inspired the software development. The app rests on ideas formed within an international collaboration: Mikael Heimann (Linköping University), Mats Lundälv (Sahlgrenska University Hospital) and Tomas Tjus (University of Gothenburg), Sweden, and Keith E Nelson (Pennsylvania State University), USA.