The generous folks over at Mobile Education Tools provided me with a code to review and 5 codes to giveaway for Conversation Builder!
This app is great when working with students with pragmatic/social skills goals. You can also use with students with wh- questions and expanding utterance length goals as well!
You can input student information yourself or have them do it with you. This enables collecting data and personalizing settings for each student.
As you can see, you can select if the student, computer/peer or random initiates the conversation. This teaches students how to start or continue a conversation. You can use this app in individual sessions or with a group.
The above 2 pictures show when the student starts the conversation. They are shown a picture and given a verbal cue. They are prompted if incorrect and guided towards the correct response. It is important for them to understand they should start with a question.
The above photo shows if the a peer/computer is starting the conversation. They are prompted with a statement from someone in or about the photo and a cue. Again, if incorrect they are prompted for assistance.
Once students select their response, they can record themselves saying the statements. This helps with role playing.
They will then receive a follow up photo and statement to help continue conversation. You can select in settings if it is a 4 turn or 8 turn conversation. It is a great idea to start small and work up. Once the conversation is complete, students can hear the entire conversation, you can save/email data, and/or move onto a new conversation.
If you click "archives" on the bottom you will be brought to this page:
Here you can find old conversations. This is great for data analyzing, if you forgot to email you can view the conversations here, and plan for future sessions. You can also monitor to determine which strategies you must teach.
If you click "achievements" you are brought to this for each student:
This helps to recall which conversations you have completed with each student.
Things I like about this app:
- Individualized options
- Data collection and email features
- Recording feature for role playing
- Fun way to teach a difficult skill
- Functional photos to elicit realistic conversations
- Easy to use and navigate
Things I would like to see in future updates:
- Options for nonreaders
- Fun graphics for correct responses
- Ways to email conversation video to show parents
Overall, I think this app is great and I am so excited to over 5 codes in a giveaway! The developers stated that they are doing updates and are excited to share them. If you win or purchase the app now, you will automatically receive the updates. This will be a quick giveaway since the codes expire soon! To learn more about this app visit iTunes!
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I have been eyeing this app! Great, I have lots of kids that could use this!
ReplyDeleteI attempt to get in to actual social situations...lunch room, playground, etc to teach and reinforce topic maintenance.
ReplyDeleteI use visuals to support conversation.
ReplyDeleteBy using video modeling and other usual supports
ReplyDeleteI ask interesting open-ended WH questions and ask the student to talk about the topic for a minute. It's great to practice with a group b/c all students are asked to engage in the topic during the timed exercise w/o changing subject.
ReplyDeleteFor some of my students, topic maintenance has to be explicit, so it's almost like the old memory game. "I went swimming over the summer". "You went swimming. I went bowling". So it's a lot of chaining the previous comment and making a related comment.
ReplyDeleteOh, How Pintearesting!
Depending on the client, I work on awareness by drawing their attention to what the topic "was" and if their current statements match.
ReplyDeleteThis looks fantastic. I would love to try it out with my social skills group this school year.
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ReplyDeleteI use visual supports ("talking sticks" aka anything that we can pass back and forth, which often is my wireless mouse).
ReplyDeleteTo teach topic maintenance, I typically start out using lots of visual reminders. I am a big fan of allowing the student to create their own visual - who am I to dictate what will work best as a reminder for them! I also love to do video recordings of conversations and have the student do a self-evaluation, tallying up on topic versus off topic comments and questions. I love this app as an entry level to more natural conversation goals. Looks like it would work well to prep the kids before moving to higher levels of difficulty.
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