Special Students in Regular Classrooms:
Technology, Teaching and Universal Design
Facilitator: Shelley Chamberlain
Online Course ~ Winter 2005
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~ About This Page ~
The above course provided its participants with many insights and much information about UDL (Universal Design for Learning). It also became a forum for the sharing of many wonderful ideas. This page is a compilation of some of the excellent resources found and shared throughout this course. Many thanks go to all involved - the collaboration was not only beneficial, but inspiring!
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~ Text to Speech ~
(See also, Ebooks and Digital Text Resources)
Travel the World with Timmy
Free demo download from Riverdeep
Special features include the ability for students to look up and hear words in Japanese, Swahili, Spanish, French, Russian, and English and an early introduction to the sounds and rhythms of foreign speech.
Animal Alphabet Book
from Yellowstone National Park - text is read, along with animal sounds - terrific! I Can Read
from Scholastic - Word by word highlighting with audio - great for K-2
TIP: Appleworks Text to Speech
Appleworks has the capability to read text. Here is how to access it:
You find the text-speech icon under preferences. Show your button bar. Go to preferences and then to button bar. Scroll to word processing and scroll down to text-speech icon of the red lips. Draw the icon to the button bar.
When children are writing or you want to have text read, highlight text in a Word Processing document and click on red lips on button bar. They will be read aloud.
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TIP: Safari Text to Speech/Changing Default Voice
If you want some digital text read from the WEB, and you are using system OSX with a Mac, you can just go to Services (located under the Safari menu) and have the text read. OR if you want the text read and want to change font, or size, etc. then paste the text into Text Edit. But either way you can change the default voice. Here are the directions:
You can change the sound of the computer's voice. To change the voice, open the Speech panel of System Preferences and click the Default Voice button, then select a voice from the list.
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