Original Teaching Materials and School Activities With Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Satsuki Yamashita ◽  
Hayato Higo ◽  
Jinko Tomiyama ◽  
Noriko Saotome ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Authoring Tool ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Activities ◽  
The Creation

Original teaching materials with dot codes, which can be linked to multimedia such as audio, movies, web pages, html files, and PowerPoint files, were created for use with students with disabilities. Hand-crafted original teaching materials can easily be created by the users themselves—for example, by schoolteachers—with newly developed and easy-to-handle software. A maximum of four multimedia files can be linked to each Post-It sticker icon and/or dot codes overlaid with a specially-designed software (GM Authoring Tool), and such multimedia files are replayed with a specially-designed sound pen (G-Speak) and scanner pen (G-Pen Blue) with Bluetooth functionality just by using the pen to touch the Post-It sticker icon and/or the dot codes on the printed document. Many activities using dot code materials have been successfully conducted, especially at special needs schools. Basic information on the creation of these materials—and on their use in schools—is presented in this chapter.

Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes as Communication Technologies

2019 ◽  
pp. 263-276
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
School Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Invisible

The author has been using new dot codes developed independently by Gridmark, Inc. and Apollo Japan and conducting school activities with original handmade teaching materials overlaid with these dot codes in collaboration with schoolteachers all over the world. In the chapter, just touching the “invisible” dot codes printed on the paper or symbol icons by using a sound pen clearly reproduces voices and sounds. By using a scanner pen connected to a tablet or PC, multimedia sources such as movies, web pages, and PowerPoint files, in addition to voices and sounds, can be reproduced on its screen. In this chapter, state-of-the-art dot code technology including a recently developed new application for a smart phone is outlined, and basic information regarding the creation of original handmade materials using dot codes and the use at both general and special needs schools is presented.

Software for Creating Self-Made Content With Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes and Gifted School Activities for Students With Disabilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Akane Yoshida ◽  
Ryoichi Ishitobi ◽  
Mao Kudo ◽  
Megumi Sekine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Authoring Tool ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Audio Files

Gifted school activities for students with various disabilities were presented with self-made original content created with newly-developed software—Sound Linker, File Linker, GM Authoring Tool, and Gridmark Content Viewer software—that can handle multimedia-enabled dot codes, originally developed by Gridmark, Inc. Each dot codes can link up to four multimedia mediums—such as a movie—in addition to up to four voices/sounds. Touching dot codes with a speaking-pen enables audio files to be replayed, and touching dot codes with a dot-code reader enables multimedia to be replayed on iOS and Windows OS devices. Software and Post-it® sticker icon overlaid with dot codes and a speaking-pen and dot-code reader are distributed for free to school teachers. All the teachers can now create their own self-made original content and can conduct related school activities without buying any costly software and tools. Basic information on (1) creating original teaching materials using the developed software and (2) its use in schools for students with various difficulties is presented in this chapter.

Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes as Communication Technologies

2018 ◽  
pp. 6464-6475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Present Author ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
School Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The present author has been using new dot codes developed independently by Gridmark, Inc. and Apollo Japan, and conducting school activities with original handmade teaching materials overlaid with these dot codes in collaboration with schoolteachers all over the world. In our work, just touching the “invisible” dot codes printed on the paper or symbol icons by using a sound pen clearly reproduces voices and sounds. By using a scanner pen connected to a tablet or PC, multimedia sources such as movies, Web pages, and PowerPoint files, in addition to voices and sounds, can be reproduced on its screen. In this article, state-of-the-art dot code technology including a recently developed new application for a smart phone is outlined, and basic information regarding the creation of original handmade materials using dot codes and the use at both general and special needs schools is presented.

Original Teaching Materials and School Activities With E-Books Containing Media Overlays

2019 ◽  
pp. 76-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Saki Nagano ◽  
Eri Tanaka Sato ◽  
Mikiko Kasai ◽  
Takahide Ezoe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Reading Disabilities ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Activities ◽  
The Creation ◽  
General School ◽  
Reading Activities ◽  
Audio Reproduction

Original e-book teaching materials containing media overlays were created for use in teaching students with reading disabilities. FUSEe developed by FUSE network, Japan was used to create EPUB 3 e-books, where an audio was replayed with synchronized highlighting of the corresponding text. SMIL language or JavaScript package for iOS, ibooks.js was used to replay the audio reproduction. These EPUB 3 e-books were read effectively with an EPUB 3 reader (for example, iBooks for iOS, and Sony and Kobo Readers for Android). E-books created with special needs school, general school, and Japanese Foreign Language Institute schoolteachers were implemented at many schools for students with reading disabilities and dyslexia. Some assessments of the reading activities were performed to clarify the e-books containing media overlays. Basic information regarding the creation of these e-books and their use in schools is presented in this chapter.

Software for Creating Self-Made Content With Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes and Gifted School Activities for Students With Disabilities

2022 ◽  
pp. 1012-1038
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Akane Yoshida ◽  
Ryoichi Ishitobi ◽  
Mao Kudo ◽  
Megumi Sekine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Authoring Tool ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Audio Files

Gifted school activities for students with various disabilities were presented with self-made original content created with newly-developed software—Sound Linker, File Linker, GM Authoring Tool, and Gridmark Content Viewer software—that can handle multimedia-enabled dot codes, originally developed by Gridmark, Inc. Each dot codes can link up to four multimedia mediums—such as a movie—in addition to up to four voices/sounds. Touching dot codes with a speaking-pen enables audio files to be replayed, and touching dot codes with a dot-code reader enables multimedia to be replayed on iOS and Windows OS devices. Software and Post-it® sticker icon overlaid with dot codes and a speaking-pen and dot-code reader are distributed for free to school teachers. All the teachers can now create their own self-made original content and can conduct related school activities without buying any costly software and tools. Basic information on (1) creating original teaching materials using the developed software and (2) its use in schools for students with various difficulties is presented in this chapter.

School Activities Using Handmade Teaching Materials with Dot Codes

2013 ◽  
pp. 220-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Fumio Nemoto ◽  
Emi Endo ◽  
Satomi Kaiami ◽  
Takahide Ezoe
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Communication Aids ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Multiple Media ◽  
Audio Files

Practitioners have been using three communication aids in conducting many school activities at both special needs and regular schools. In the simplest system, voices and sounds are transformed into dot codes, edited with pictures and text, and printed out with an ordinary color printer; the printed dot codes are traced to be decoded into the originals by using a handy tool, Sound Reader. In the most complex system, in addition to audio files, multiple media files such as movies, web pages, html files, and PowerPoint files can be linked to each dot code; just touching the printed dot code with sound or scanner pens reproduces their audio or multimedia, respectively. The present chapter reports the software and hardware used in developing originally handmade teaching materials with dot codes and various school activities performed at both special needs and regular schools.

Original Teaching Materials and School Activities for Students With an Intellectual Disability

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoichi Ishitobi ◽  
Fumio Nemoto ◽  
Youko Sugita ◽  
Susumu Nakamura ◽  
Toru Iijima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Software Program ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Large Research

Most of the present authors, the teachers at the School for the Mentally Challenged at Otsuka, University of Tsukuba, have been creating original teaching aids and materials using low-tech and high-tech methods. Original teaching aids created with woodworking and metalworking are usually used for students with an intellectual disability. The original teaching materials with Grid Onput dot code, which could link multimedia, such as audio, movies, web pages, html files, and PowerPoint files were created in collaboration with one of the present authors, Professor Shigeru Ikuta, who organized a large research project, and Gridmark Inc. that developed Grid Onput dot code. The present authors have recently developed a new software program, SmileNote, to help students create presentation slides in expressing their feelings, will, and desires to classmates, teachers, and parents. Basic information on these materials and their use in schools is presented in this chapter.

Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes as Communication Aids

2021 ◽  
pp. 331-345
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Masamichi Watanuki ◽  
Shinya Abe
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Communication Aids ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

Grid Onput is a set of novel two-dimensional codes comprising extremely small dots. The present authors recently developed software to overlap the dot codes on the user's designed sheet, to create a content to replay audios, to create a standalone application to replay multimedia, and to create an application to replay multimedia on iPad. Simply touching the dot codes with a speaking-pen and/or a dot-code reader enables users to directly access the corresponding digital information; a maximum of four mediums can be easily linked to each dot code icon. In collaboration with schoolteachers all over the world, one of the authors, Shigeru Ikuta, has been creating a variety of original self-made content and conducting various activities at both general and special needs schools. This chapter outlines the recent development of the state-of-the-art Grid Onput dot code technology and presents basic information regarding the creation of original teaching materials using newly developed software and the use at both general and special needs schools.

Original Teaching Materials and School Activities for Students With an Intellectual Disability

2022 ◽  
pp. 913-934
Author(s):  
Ryoichi Ishitobi ◽  
Fumio Nemoto ◽  
Youko Sugita ◽  
Susumu Nakamura ◽  
Toru Iijima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Software Program ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Large Research

Most of the present authors, the teachers at the School for the Mentally Challenged at Otsuka, University of Tsukuba, have been creating original teaching aids and materials using low-tech and high-tech methods. Original teaching aids created with woodworking and metalworking are usually used for students with an intellectual disability. The original teaching materials with Grid Onput dot code, which could link multimedia, such as audio, movies, web pages, html files, and PowerPoint files were created in collaboration with one of the present authors, Professor Shigeru Ikuta, who organized a large research project, and Gridmark Inc. that developed Grid Onput dot code. The present authors have recently developed a new software program, SmileNote, to help students create presentation slides in expressing their feelings, will, and desires to classmates, teachers, and parents. Basic information on these materials and their use in schools is presented in this chapter.

Handmade Content and School Activities for Autistic Children with Expressive Language Disabilities

2017 ◽  
pp. 85-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ikuta ◽  
Ryoichi Ishitobi ◽  
Fumio Nemoto ◽  
Chiho Urushihata ◽  
Kyoko Yamaguchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Expressive Language ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Language Disabilities ◽  
Audio Recordings

Original teaching materials with dot codes, which can be linked to multimedia such as audio, movies, Web pages, html files, and PowerPoint files were created for use with autistic children with intellectual and expressive language disabilities. A maximum of four audio recordings can be linked to one dot code icon. One of the authors (S. I.) also created “Post-it” icons, on which dot codes were printed, and shared these with teachers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). As part of this project, many activities using dot code materials were successfully conducted at special needs and general schools. Basic information on the creation of these materials and their use in schools are presented in this paper.

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