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Let Your Laptop Do the Talking 2009 Spring Teacher Institute Pictures Sounds Numbers Words

MLTI Statewide Integration Mentor Welcome! Cynthia Curry MLTI Statewide Integration Mentor

Outcomes Know that your laptop speaks text aloud Find instructional materials in accessible digital text format Distinguish public domain and copyright Have a built-in tool to convert text files to audio files or be familiar with tools on the Web

“What do I need to make my MLTI laptop talk?” Accessible Digital Text Text on your screen that can be edited and/or transferred.

Accessible Digital Text .sxw (NeoOffice Text) .pages (Pages) .doc (Word) .cwk (AppleWorks) .html (Hypertext Markup Language) Your email

Image capture from International Children’s Digital Library http://www Image capture from International Children’s Digital Library http://www.childrenslibrary.org (Cry-baby Moon by Mataira & Kemp)

System Preferences > Speech See “OSX_Speech.pdf” Enable Text to Speech System Preferences > Speech See “OSX_Speech.pdf”

“Where do I find instructional materials in accessible digital text?” “Copyright Conundrum” AIM Consortium, Center for Applied Special Technology

Public Domain vs. Copyright Instructional Materials may be freely copied, used, and redistributed Copyright fully protected exemption for individuals with qualifying print disabilities

Public Domain Instructional Materials Web-based Public Domain Libraries Digital text Audio See “Web_based_Public_Domain.pdf”

Instructional Materials under Copyright “Accessible Media Producers” (AMPs) American Printing House for the Blind (APH) Recordings for the Blind & Dyslexic (RfB&D) Bookshare http://bookshare.org The NIMAC http://nimac.us

Please contact me… Email iChat Skype Visit my blog ccurry2@mlti.org ccurry4@mac.com Skype cynlcurry Visit my blog http://udmlti.edublogs.org

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