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

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

3. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Instructional Materials under Copyright
“Accessible Media Producers” (AMPs)
American Printing House for the Blind (APH)
Recordings for the Blind & Dyslexic (RfB&D)
Bookshare
The NIMAC

13. Please contact me… Email iChat Skype Visit my blog ccurry2@mlti.org
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