Educational and Assistive Technologies 1.2 Experts in Educational and Assistive Technologies

About Us Experts in Educational and Assistive Technology Professional team with extensive experience in the fields of Education, AAC and Technology Quality products Professional development founded on best practices Service in both English and French Dedicated to the principles of UDL and DI

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Halton District School Board Assistive Technology Overview Schedule for this afternoon … 1.Brief description of the technology 2. Demonstration of the specific tools we are using today; Kurzwei 3000l, Dragon Naturally Speaking and Smart Ideas 3.Questions and comments 3. websites and support to share

Kurzweil 3000 version 11 Kurzweil is a text to speech program It has OCR capability and therefore Reads multiple formats of text; pdf, text files such as Word, websites Reads material scanned into Kurzweil Study skills features built in to support students researching, studying for tests, summarizing information Let’s take a look….

Alex uses Kurzweil 3000 to read http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwSwzeBCbq8..\Alex and Bookshare.wmv

Support for Kurzweil 3000 version 11 Kurzweil is available in all Halton Schools and is often found in the resource room. SIt has also been recommended to many struggling students on their SEA claims Kurzweil has been successfully used by many students on their EQAO tests Helpful websites: www.kurzweiledu.com www.setbc.org www.bridgeslearning.pbworks.com

Kurzweil 3000 Website

First Click on the Learning Centre Next click on the first letter of the software K for Kurzweil

Pages and Files will take you To tutorials and examples Here you will find websites and this ppt

Smart Ideas Concept Mapping Smart Ideas is a graphic organizer that allows you to quickly brainstorm your ideas Templates can also be used to organize writing for specific tasks such as an essay Your ideas can then be transferred into a word processor where you can complete your final edits Let’s take a look …

Support for Smart Ideas Smart Ideas is Ministry Licensed software and therefore is available to all Ontario Schools a teachers have take home priveledges. www.smarttech.com www.osapac.org www.bridgeslearning.pbwiki.com .

Ontario Software Acquisition Advisory Committee Curriculum Resources

Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Dragon Naturally Speaking allows speech recognition- from voice to text Requires some training of a voice file to be most effective Can be difficult to use in a classroom setting, requires a quiet area for dictation Provides students with an alternate method of writing that can be transformational A quick Demonstration…

Support for Dragon Naturally Speaking Dragon Naturally Speaking is Ministry Licensed and therefore is available to all Ontario Schools Dragon has been used successfully for EQAO testing Teachers can use Dragon to dictate their work also Helpful websites: www.nuance.com www.osapac.org www.bridgeslearning.pbworks.com

The Ross MacDonald Library Other Resources … The Ross MacDonald Library Textbooks, novels have been scanned in and are available to the teachers and students electronically Each school Resource teacher has access code and can download books or have a novel scanned

Questions, suggestions? Halton Board Resources? Other sites you have found helpful

Please contact me with any questions! Contact Information Janet Ragan B.A.Sc., B.Ed Bridges Canada 1-800-353-1107 janet@bridges-canada.com Please contact me with any questions! Or Comments!