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Doorway Online

Free accessible educational activities that learners will find easy to use independently.

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  • Literacy
    • First Phonics
    • Letter and Number Formation
    • Speller 2
    • Flash Activities >
      • First Blends
      • First Sounds
      • First Words
  • Number
    • Add and Subtract to 10
    • Add and Subtract to 100
    • Count Me In
    • Number Table
    • Odd and Even
    • Up to 10
  • Time and Money
    • About Time
    • Cashing In
    • Supermarket
    • Till We Meet Again
  • Typing
    • Single Handed Typing
    • Text Type 3 – Phase 2
    • Text Type 2
  • Memory and Matching
    • Find the Pairs (Pelmanism)
    • Moving Targets
    • Same or Different

About

Principles

Accessibility

All software is fully accessible to keyboard only users, mouse only users and switch users where possible. Software is suitable for users of interactive whiteboards (IWBs). At an early stage of development, a Consultation was held with CALL Scotland to discuss how to optimise accessibility for the Doorway suite, making the software as accessible as possible for as many users as possible.

Availability

The software is available over the internet. In this way it can be run on any computer with internet access*. Learners will be able to use the same activities at home as in school and teachers will be able to recommend which exercises to practice.

Inclusiveness

This suite aims to provide a highly educational experience for users of all abilities. There should be very little need for ‘special needs’ software as all software should be fully accessible.

*Flash Player (version 8 or higher) is required to use Doorway activities

History

The original Doorway activities were first implemented on Acorn RISC OS Computers in the early 1990s by Andrew Burt and Philip Whittaker, using the Doorway Multimedia development system created by Roger Spooner and Andrew Burt.

The original ideas for the software on this site are Philip Whittaker’s. He was ICT Support Teacher for Inclusion in Scottish Borders. Now retired, he is chairman of the Doorway Accessible Software Trust that manages this site and develops new activities for it.

The design and implementation of the current activities are by Thomas Lee.

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News

  • Doorway Activity Pack is Now Available For Free Download! 18/10/2020
  • Doorway Activities – Will they work on your equipment? 14/06/2020
  • Doorway Text Type 3 and Touch Typing 14/06/2020

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This site is provided by the Doorway Accessible Software Trust, a charity registered in Scotland, no. SC042166. Website by Thomas Lee.
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