Pogo Board

Our professor posted a video online which introduced us to a software called Pogo Board. I think that this would be a GREAT tool to use in the classroom with students. Many of today's classrooms are inclusion classrooms, meaning that there are students with specific special needs in the room (for at least part of the day). I think that this program would be good to use because it is both visual and auditory. There will be students in the classroom who definitely could benefit from using both styles to learn. In fact, many students do it everyday without even realizing it. The pogo board software would also be very useful in a special education classroom, especially one that has students who are on the Autistic Spectrum. I have worked with many students who are on the Spectrum. Most of them use a PECS system or dynavoxes to interact with the people around them. I think that this software would be a wonderful tool to use with the entire class. I think that it would give students more opportunities to speak and communicate with their peers; students whom may have otherwise been too shy or did not know how to communicate. I think that this will be a helpful tool to use. It is a software that helps students communicate with the people around them, and teaches Literacy at the same time. Students can use the words and phrases (found under each picture) to create their own sentences. From what I understand, the teacher also has control of what words and sentences are found in the software. I look forward to further exploring this software.
This is the link. Check out the video and let me know what you think about the software. http://www.pogoboards.com/VideoTutorials.aspx?name=helpvideos