How Can Teachers Use It?
My Video Schedule can be a useful tool to help offer predictability and consistency to students who struggle with transitions, new situations, or maintaining a schedule. It's best to add personally relevant images and videos that correspond to your student's daily schedule. Individualizing these specific tasks can be particularly meaningful and engaging for students. Rewards are also customizable to help encourage and engage.
The app is best for individual use, and classroom teachers should take special care to use the password-protection feature so students can't access all image options, some of which aren't intended for young children. Also, teachers may suggest that parents use the app at home to maximize consistency and establish regularity with this type of schedule system.
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What's It Like?
My Video Schedule is a scheduling app made especially for adults and students with special needs like autism. The app includes photo and video modeling as well as a rewards system for scheduled activities and behaviors. The library of photos and videos includes actions like putting on a jacket, eating lunch, going to special classes, and getting on a school bus, among many others.
Admin Mode allows teachers to set up scheduled tasks and events. After selecting a date and time, teachers can add one of the 100-plus pre-loaded photos or videos most closely related to a given activity or event. Teachers can also add their own custom media to help personalize the experience. Rewards can come in many forms, whether they're animal crackers, a DVD, or even just a happy-face icon. Events can be set up as one time only or repeating for regular activities. Students can view a rewards page after clicking Finish on an activity or task.
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Is It Good For Learning?
The My Video Schedule app is designed to help people who struggle with structure, time management, and motivation; with a teacher's careful use, it can be effective at helping kids cope with these important parts of daily life. Scheduling activities with corresponding videos can help kids learn to make smoother transitions when changing activities. The app's rewards system helps build motivation and can help increase independence at school, at home, or in the community.
My Video Schedule's stock images tend toward the stereotypical -- for example, doctors and dentists are male, and there's a lack of cultural diversity. However, this weakness can be addressed by adding your own images and videos, which students are likely to find much more meaningful, anyway. For students who respond well to visual cues and rewards, My Video Schedule may be an invaluable tool to help reinforce structure and necessary tasks in their daily school schedule.
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Stock photos and videos with audio help users anticipate a situation.
The activity template guide users through the schedule-creating process.
Select rewards or create your own to encourage kids to follow the scheduled items.
Activities range from practical everyday life skills to occasional appointments.
