Shape Coding vs Images and Sounds

Please try the free Lite version before purchase to ensure all functionality will work on your device. SHAPE CODING® by Susan Ebbels is a flexible app designed for teachers and speech and language therapists / pathologists to use with children and young people who are having difficulties producing and understanding English sentence structure and grammar. It uses the SHAPE CODING® system which has been shown in several research projects to help children and young people with language disorders increase the length and complexity of sentences they can understand and use and to improve the accuracy of their sentence production. The SHAPE CODING® system uses a visual coding system to show the rules for how words are put together in sentences, to develop the child’s understanding of spoken and written grammar and to develop their ability to use grammar successfully to express themselves. The system includes use of colours (word classes), arrows (tense and aspect), lines (singular and plural) and shapes (syntactic structure). These are all included in the app, but the professional controlling the app can choose which features display for individual students. Multiple “teachers” can use the app and each “teacher” can have multiple students. The app is personalised for each student. The app is designed to be flexible so that professionals can adapt the levels and information displayed to suit the current levels and targets of individual students. The default first setting for each new student includes only basic sentence structures. Further complexity can be turned on (and off) by the “teacher” and individual settings are preserved for each student between uses. The app is equipped with a basic set of words which can be inserted into the shapes to make sentences. However, additional words can be added for individual students, or indeed for all students working with a particular “teacher” (this can be useful for names and topics which are common across a class of students for example). These can either be added before a session with a student, or during a session and can be saved for future use if desired. The app uses text-to-speech, so that students who struggle to read can also use the app. This app assumes a certain degree of familiarity with the SHAPE CODING® system. For more information see www.shapecoding.com. Training on how to use the SHAPE CODING® system is available from https://training.moorhouseinstitute.co.uk/. For a demonstration of some of the features of the app see https://shapecoding.com/demo-videos/, and for Frequently Asked Questions see: https://shapecoding.com/app-info/faqs/. Follow us on Twitter @ShapeCoding, Facebook @ShapeCoding and Instagram @shape_coding or if you have any problems or feedback, please contact us at training@moorhouseschool.co.uk Please review our privacy policy https://shapecoding.com/privacy-policy-apple/

The Images & Sounds eBook comprises over 140 videos linked to text. Discover a three-layered Framework for Audiovisual Composing that guides the reader through the process of creating videos. Uncover how art, drama, dance and music underpin composing in images and sounds. Explore how audiovisual composing began through photography, radio, film and television. Find out how narrative strategies, structures, codes, conventions and techniques work in a specific audiovisual composition. Observe and view audiovisual composing being practiced by children, students, adults and researchers. Unearth innovative audiovisual - essays, letters, reports, portraits, poems, and case studies, from participants in the UK, across Europe, Peru and China. Encounter animation. Images & Sounds shows how audiovisual language parallels and complements written language. In the field of professional publishing: film mirrors novels; television and on-line news parallels newspapers; documentaries emulate books on history, geography and science; and television lifestyle and reality shows imitate magazines. However, audiovisual composing has not complemented written composing within education. Audiovisual essays, reports and case studies, for subjects across the curriculum, are not found alongside written ones. Students do not create audiovisual short stories and poetry in audiovisual language classes that match such activities in written language classes: and do not study professional audiovisual texts as they currently analyze written literature. This is a massively missed opportunity. Mass mixed-media communicative competence for the 21st century, should match written literacy developed in the 20th century. On opening the eBook, you first view the front cover for a few seconds before being taken to the Contents page, your Gateway to the pathways and layers contained within Images and Sounds. The Legal Page, Acknowledgements and Introduction – Preface, and list of Chapters with Titles – Audiovisual Catalogue and Guide can be found on the Contents Page. The Audiovisual Catalogue contains the audiovisual Contents List, for each chapter, as screen shots. The screen shot activates the video. The video has 3 option buttons. Show Details takes the reader to another screen containing credits, focus/background notes, and key concepts. The notes and references for the text, can be located by a small blue star in the body of the text. The eBook links to www.images-and-sounds.net - the Library contains additional related contents - Backstories for chapters 5 – 8 and References to films and videos used in the annotations. Images & Sounds Audiovisual Language comes in two formats: a fully functioning eBook and a Papertronic Book (a hybrid printed and electronic version). The eBook and Papertronic Book have the same operational system and page design.