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Clicker 4 Review
Literacy and Learning, April/May 2001

... Clicker comes with many ready-made grids, but it is very simple to create and save your own, providing support for children in any curriculum area.

The package has also developed rapidly, constantly changing in the light of fresh requirements from schools. This responsiveness is obviously a major benefit of a small software company, and leads to close links between software development and classroom practice.

Clicker 4 is the latest version, and moves significantly closer to the world of the Internet. It is now fully integrated with the environment of web pages: any document made with Clicker can be published as a web page or sent as an email from within the program itself. This will certainly empower children with special needs to take an active part in creating multimedia and web materials. Other enhancements include the use of video, networking facilities and a much larger range of resources.

Crick has also started publishing supplementary CD-ROMs. These contain curriculum materials to work with Clicker 4. I first tried out Find Out and Write About Animals of Hot Lands. Pictures and factual text are presented in an easily digestible way. When you have explored the information you can switch to a writing mode to use a Clicker Grid to assemble your own text. This is a useful set of resources for children to work with non-fiction texts

Find Out and Write About Castles is organised in a similar way. Information about castles is presented at three different levels with differentiated grids/writing frames... The general text is spoken in a good, clear human voice... Find Out and Write About The Ancient Greeks presents facts about Greek life in an attractive way. Clicker Animations provides 100 lively animations to use in stories and websites, together with some ready-made grid activities.

Andrew Rudd

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