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Posted in 4-7, 8-12, Active Learning, K-3, Not Subject Specific, Resource | Tagged with apps, Assessment, assistive technology; accessibility, data visualization, Free, interactivity, Language Arts, student response system, student response systems, word cloud, wordle

A word cloud is a cluster of words that responsively shows most used words as larger or more pronounced that lesser used words. It is a form of data visualization sometimes called ‘text’ or ‘tag’ clouds. You sometimes see a word cloud to represent the tags used for posts on a blog. A word cloud […]

Verbally: Text-to-Speech

Verbally: Text-to-Speech

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, Assistive Technology, English, Not Subject Specific, Post Secondary, Resource | Tagged with apps, assistive technology; accessibility, computer, Free, iPad, laptop

Verbally is a convenient, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), text-to-speech app that can be used to help your students with challenges in communication. Currently (August 2017) it is only available for iPad and iPhone. With Verbally, your students can either choose from the word clouds provided to create sentences or they can type in a […]

NaturalReader: Text to speech tool

NaturalReader: Text to speech tool

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, Assistive Technology, English, K-3, Not Subject Specific, Resource | Tagged with assistive technology; accessibility, computer, Free, laptop, Teacher Use, text to speech

NaturalReader is a powerful text to speech tool that can help read your documents out loud to you and your students. As a teacher, you can choose from the NaturalReader Online (online web application) and the NaturalReader software, which can be used offline on Windows or Macintosh devices. With NaturalReader, documents can be read in […]

Assistive technology and open education resources take flight in UBC’s BEd Summer program

Assistive technology and open education resources take flight in UBC’s BEd Summer program

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, Assistive Technology, Blog Posts, Open Educational Resources | Tagged with assistive technology; accessibility, copyright, creative commons, OER; open educational resource, Teacher Use

As part of the large TLEF project, “Enhancing Secondary Teacher Candidates’ Digital Competencies”, coordinated by ETS and Yvonne Dawydiak, Technology Integration Mentor, students and instructors in each section of ESPE 317 had the opportunity to partake in lectures and workshops that modeled digital technology integration and centered on the importance of assistive technologies and open […]

Assistive Technologies: Built-in accessibility features on your laptop

Assistive Technologies: Built-in accessibility features on your laptop

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, Assistive Technology, English, Not Subject Specific, Post Secondary, Resource | Tagged with assistive technology; accessibility, computer, Free, laptop, Teacher Use

Both Mac Operation System(OS)  and Windows Operation System (OS) have a lot of built-in accessibility features, which can be beneficial for people with difficulties with vision, hearing, physical & motor skills, or learning and literacy. Accessibility features of Mac OS: Vision – VoiceOver, Audio Descriptions for movies, Siri, Dictation, Zoom, Cursor Size, Contrast Options, Reduce […]


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