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The Rainforest site was set up by Tools for Inclusion, a three year programme based at the Institute of Education, University of London, which offered training for teachers working in all phases in the use of ICT to support learners with Special Educational Needs.
Rara Avis is a private rainforest nature reserve in Costa Rica. They are working hard to develop sustainable ways of using natural rainforests in order to help conserve them for future generations.
Tools for Inclusion commissioned Twan Leenders at Rara Avis to develop the Rainforest website as a resource for British schools. They also commissioned Widgit to create the accessible symbols site to facilitate inclusion of pupils
The site is now available in Spanish and Dutch
For more information, please contact Tina Catchpole at the Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL.
Telephone: 0207 612 6305
Fax: 0207 612 6994
Email: t.catchpole@ioe.ac.uk
Website: www.ioe.ac.uk/nof/tfi
The Rainforest Site
There are three areas of information:
Level 1 has general information on rainforests and the plants and animals that live there.
Level 2 describes the destruction of the rainforests, logging, alternative farming.
Level 3 is on sustainability and how we can conserve this essential world resource.
The symbol site has been designed to have easy navigation and is switch accessible.
The site has been designed to be fully switch accessible, with no setting up required. When the mouse or switch scan covers the big buttons they are highlighted.
The scroll bar is highlighted red to make it easier to find.
No page is longer than 2 screen heights so that the reader can read a reasonable quantity of information, but still have easy navigation.
Additional resources for schools: An off-line version will be available to save on-line costs, and for use on computers not directly connected to the Internet. PDF files will be available with the symbol texts for students to read. And the new symbols used in the site will be available to download.
