My Time

My Time features

My Time is a personal organiser created to help user’s learn about their week, and the activities, classes and events that make up their time. My Time includes a scheduler, timetabler, planner, to-do lists, notifications, countdowns, invitations and is full of learning activities.

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Daily schedule

The daily schedule lists all the activities that are scheduled to occur on that day, along with a picture and their start and end times. Clicking on an activity displays that activity full screen and the name of that activity is heard.

Different views

My Time allows the user to easily move from a daily, weekly or monthly view of their timetable this allows the development of understanding of their personal time from the short to the long term. When the mouse hovers over a day in the monthly view all the activities planned for that day are expanded, clicking the mouse then displays the activities planned for that day full screen. Whereas in the weekly view when the mouse hovers over an activity a picture for that activity and the start and finish times are displayed, clicking the mouse then displays that activity full screen.

Planner - My Day

This planner is a special feature of My Time designed as a useful tool in granting autonomy to those with limited language. By dragging and dropping activities onto a list the user can choose what they would like to do. The user can choose to plan today, tomorrow, any of the days in the coming week and their birthday. As part of this the user also has the ability to choose a friend to invite to accompany them in that particular activity. This invitation can then be printed out and given to their friend.

Learning activities

A number of learning activities are included with My Time. These activities ask the user to do things such as: put the activities onto the days that they occur, put today’s activities in order, put the days of the week/months of the year in order, and to sort dates. These activities are designed to teach concepts of time from the simple to the complex.

To do lists

My Time has two types of To do lists. The first is a daily list which has activities that need to happen every day. Once done the user can mark them as complete and the next day they will reappear to be done again. The other list is more traditional and is for activities that are only done once.

Questions

A number of questions are also included with My Time. These questions ask things such as: What day is today? What day will tomorrow be? What month is it? More questions can also be easily added to My Time via the parent/teacher menu. This enables questions to be specifically tailored to each user.

Reminders

For each activity a reminder can be set to pop up to let a user know that it is time for an activity to occur whenever My Time is running. These reminders can be scheduled to occur a set number of minutes before an activity occurs and will display the activity and play a sound to alert the user.

Timetables

School timetables can be easily entered, and changed, using the templates provided. The user can then easily see the activities involved in the school day. Throughout My Time both school and home activities can be viewed at the same time, or they can be separated out so only one is viewed at a time.

Special Events

When adding activities to the timetable activities can be marked as special events. The next special event that is due to occur is displayed with a countdown on the main menu. Clicking on these special events displays a list of all special events that are due to occur. A picture of a moon is shown to depict how many “sleeps” there are till that event will occur. This countdown is designed to help develop the concept of the passing of time, as well as the excitement of looking forward to an event occurring.