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MazioCreate Literacy & Numeracy Resources
 
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Meet Mr Car Board, your new tutor.
Virtual support options doesn't mean leaning against a table instead of the bar.  Nor does it mean a cardboard cutout standing in the classroom, instead of the tutor you were promised in the last budget.  The virtual support I'm discussing is gizmos and gadgets that we can use on screen to assist students in the classroom i.e. if the IT department hasn't barred those sites as spam. 

One of my biggest frustrations when teaching adults literacy and numeracy was the total lack of good support material and tools.  That's the main reason for starting MazioCreate.  I've been scouring the internet trying to locate suitable programs that would support teachers who have adult students in their classroom.  Trying to find FREEBIE downloads is not easy.  On more than one occasion when the program was advertised as free, as when I went to download the buy now button swung into action.  This happened while trying to download an on screen ruler program that I have previously used.  You may have more success.   Read more...

 
 
Soft or hard options don't refer to your preference for boiled eggs or choice of dessert i.e. chocolate blancmange or sticky date pudding with butterscotch sauce and almond praline - the hard bit. (I'm getting ready for the winter treats.)  They refer to knowledge and skills related to your job / career and how you go about doing that job.  About ten years ago I was a member of a working party that was involved in the development of guidelines for a Certificate 1 in Life Skills for people who have a disability.  Our facilitator gave us very broad guidelines, except for one point, there were to be no soft options under discussion only hard or skill based options. The people with the money had spoken and we were to follow this mandate to the letter, or in this case syllable.  Our money people were the state government and we all worked in the state education department, but did that mean we had to take this mandate lying down? Absolutely not!  Well maybe, if we wanted a specific course for this group of people. Okay we had no recourse on this matter, but maybe there was another way. Read more...