Useful for helping students spell things correctly the first time without practicing incorrect spellings over and over again. Also useful for decreasing the number of keystrokes and increasing productivity.
STRATEGY: When a student comes across a word not already in his or her lexicon invite the student to highlight that word using a specific color. These words can then be collected to create a dictionary of niggling words. Students can then focus studies on those specific target words.
Student's strength/preference is to provide verbal responses. Student might answer questions using her/his voice. Student outlines thoughts for an essay by recording voice notes in each cell of a graphic organizing template and then goes back to type in what was recorded. Teachers could use this feature to provide audio feedback. Teacher could use this feature to provide instructions, hints, reminders, or other comments to students.