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Google Chrome Supports for Struggling Learners April 5th, 2014
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Google Chrome. Supports for Struggling Learners. April 5th, 2014. The guy talking. Doug Rosette VP of Sales-East Texthelp, Inc. [email protected]. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Google ChromeSupports for Struggling Learners
April 5th, 2014
The guy talking...
Doug RosetteVP of Sales-EastTexthelp, Inc.
Doug has worked in the assistive technology industry for over 20 years. Previously, Doug worked for Cambium Learning, and he was the founder and principal partner at Pathways Technology where he sold software to schools districts and universities around the United States. Doug has a B.S. for Salem State University.
Goals for today...
1. Learn about taking a UDL approach to Google Apps
2. Understand why this is important3. View some really cool tools4. Answer your questions
Majority of time
spent here
What is Universal Design?• Coined by Architect, Ron Mace• Design for everybody.• Tall, Short, Wide, Narrow• Range of strengths and abilities• Selwyn Goldsmith, author of
Designing for the Disabled (1963), who pioneered the concept of free access for disabled people (created curb cut outs).
Retrofit= Modify After Failure
Technology Can Help…Remediation vs. Compensation:
Edyburn, 2002
Why this is important
3 Months Later
Support Tools
❏ Text-to-speech
❏ Word prediction
❏ Visual & talking dictionaries
❏ Symbol Supports
❏ Translator
❏ Organizational and study tools
Research
Sources: Elkind (1998), Montali and Lewandowski (1996), Disseldorp and Chambers (2002).
• Text-to-speech with dual highlighting can increase student comprehension by two grade levels.
• An extension that works with documents inside Google Drive.
• Each icon represents a powerful tool.• These tools help students to read, write, organize,
and research independently.• Read and analyze Google Docs, PDF, ePub and .kes
files
What is Read&Write for Google?
(Back)
ORIGINAL TEXT
EXTRACTED HIGHLIGHTS
Master Text Complexity
Comprehension Tools
(Back)
Read&Write for GoogleTM
• *Bookshare: www.bookshare.org• *Learning Ally: www.learningally.org• *Access Text Network (Hi Ed): www.accesstext.org• Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org• Bartleby: www.bartleby.com• Merlot from CSU: www.merlot.org• Tarheel Reader (K-4): http://tarheelreader.org• Free epub: www.manybooks.net• www.epubbooks.com (some free)
* For Students with Disabilities only
Digital Resources
Demo
What did we see?❏ Tools to help with reading, writing and
organization in Google Docs❏ Tools to help struggling readers with PDF,
EPUB, KES, and web pages❏ New reading supports available soon❏ Any questions on this?
