Karmen Posedel Golob, II. OŠ Žalec

I am a special education teacher, who works with students dealing with moderate and severe mental disabilities and disorders. As their teacher, I am aware of the fact that my primary mission is to prepare my students for an independent future and a selfhood. The quality of their future endeavors depends on it to a great extent. Utilizing ICT, I aspire to demonstrate learning process and ensure that students benefit from each others learning experience. Individuals who have moderate to severe mental disabilities and disorders benefit from a non-abstract, repetitive, and overly explicit verbal instructions. Students perform better in training skills if they have illustrative demonstrations and are able to do multiple repetitions. With this conclusion I came up with the idea that the more able pupils would make videos of their regular activities with a mobile phone, which could then be shared / posted on the school website. Recordings could then be used repeatedly and play and when they learned, practiced less able pupils. Mobile phones are used as recording devices, a video-cast is made available via video.arnes.si, schools web portal and personal computers. Since students lack ability to read, video demostrations of fellow students who successfully accomplished specific tasks is very likely to benefit the remaining audience and ensure their consequent success. With a surveying of their parents I did measure the influence of these recordings to independence in their home.