Self-made teaching materials with multimedia-enabled dot codes and school activities

Abstract

   By using newly developed software and tools, the present authors have been creating self-made teaching materials and conducting school activities for students with various disabilities. The research project organized by one of the present authors, Shigeru Ikuta, is now widely spread all over the world; about 250 schoolteachers join the project. Shigeru Ikuta, schoolteachers Chiho Urushihata and Noriko Saotome, and a staff of Gridmark Inc. Shinya Abe were awarded “Outstanding Paper Award” at the International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) 2020. In collaboration with many schoolteachers, Shigeru Ikuta has published several chapter papers in the books published by IGI-Global. The present paper describes the details on the recently updated software, Sound Linker to create self-made teaching materials for a speaking-pen and the activities performed by the Japanese schoolteachers and Otsuma Women's university students in 2019 academic year.