Digital Toolkits for Struggling Readers in Content-Area Classrooms
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Digital Toolkits for Struggling Readers in Content-Area
Classrooms Cindy Okolo
Michigan State University
March, [email protected]
http://assistive-technology-lab.wiki.educ.msu.edu/
Our mission is to develop complex literacies across the lifespan through multi-
disciplinary research.
Who are these kids?
Challenges for Kids with Literacy Disabilities/DifficultiesDecoding
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Background knowledge*
Strategy knowledge & use*
Confidence*
Motivation*
Challenges for Kids with Literacy Disabilities/Difficulties• Writing mechanics
– Handwriting, spelling, writing conventions
• Idea generation
• Organizing
• Revising
• Editing
How Can Technology Help?
• Support– Reading tools– Organizing– Support for background information– Studying– Scaffolding
• Compensate– Bypass reading & writing
• Motivate
What’s in your Operating System
Mac
• Voice Over
• Text to speech
• Speech recognition
• Screen magnification
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/macosx/vision.html
Windows
• Magnifier
• Narrator (text to speech)
• Speech Recognition (VISTA)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/accessibility/default.mspx#EBB
What’s on your Browser?
• Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/)
• ADD-ONS– Dictionaries & Language Packs: (
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3)– Bookmarks:
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:22)
– Dictionary: (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7869)
What’s on your Browser?
– Hyperwords (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=hyperword&cat=all)
– Accessibar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=accessibar&cat=all
)– Marking (highlighting or dogears) (
http://yellow5.us/firefox/dogears/)
• CLiCk Speak (http://clickspeak.clcworld.net/downloads.html)
What’s in your Bookmarks: Digital Books?
• Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page)
• University of Virginia E-Text Library (http://etext.virginia.edu/ebooks/)
• Many Books (manybooks.net)
• Amazon, iTunes• Bookshare (http://www.bookshare.org/)
What’s in Your Bookmarks: Turn text to speech
• Record your own– Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
– Spoken Powerpoint books
• Have someone else do it:– Spoken Text (http://www.spokentext.net/)– http://www.watchingthenet.com/firefox-tip-convert-web-page-text-
to-speech-and-save-as-mp3-file.html
– YAKiToMe (http://www.yakitome.com/cgi-bin/input.py)
What’s in your Bookmarks: Reference Tools
• Visuwords: online graphical dictionary (http://www.visuwords.com/?word=constitution)
• Ghotit (http://www.ghotit.com/home.shtml)• Wiktionary (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/)• Shmoop (http://www.shmoop.com/literature/)
What’s on your Computer: Supporting Thinking and Organizing
• Inspiration (www.inspiration.com)
• Timeliner (http://www.tomsnyder.com/timelinerxe/)
What’s On Your Computer: Literacy Tools: The Big Six
• WYNN (http://www.freedomscientific.com/LSG/products/WYNN.asp)
• Kurzweil 3000 (http://www.kurzweiledu.com/)
• Solo Literacy Suite (http://www.donjohnston.com/products/solo/)
• Read & Write Gold (http://www.readwritegold.com/readwritegoldv9.html)
• WordQ and SpeakQ (http://www.wordq.com/)
• WriteOnline (http://www.cricksoft.com/uk/writeonline/)
What’s On Your Computer: Literacy Software
• Text to speech• Word prediction• Writing Tools
– Concept mapping– Templates– Specialized dictionaries– Speech recognition– Revision tools
• Study tools– Highlighting– Annotating
What’s Attached to your Computer?
• Scanner
• Camera
What’s in your Hand?
What’s In Your Hand?
What’s on your Mind?