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Louise Phinney

19 Free Text To Speech tools for Educators - 0 views

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text to speech tools

shared by Louise Phinney on 25 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 25 Dec 12
     
    "Would you like to relax your students' tired eyes?  Is it sounds good to convert any written text such as Microsoft Word into spoken words? What about running a PowerPoint presentation and have a narration of the text on your slides? Would you be interested in a list of 19 Free Text to Speech tools?"
Louise Phinney

Free Technology for Teachers: Create a Text Message Exchange Between Fictional Characters - 0 views

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text message

shared by Louise Phinney on 14 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 14 Mar 13
     
    Good for any class doing a character study The ever clever Russel Tarr has developed a new neat tool for creating fictional text message exchanges between fictional and or historical characters. The Classtools SMS Generator is free to use and does not require students to log-in. To use the SMS Generator just click the left speech bubble icon and enter a message. Then to create a reply just click the right speech bubble icon and enter a new message. You can make the exchange as long as you like.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Speech-to-Text in a Fifth-Grade Classroom * The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity - 1 views

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dyslexia accessibility iPad literacy writing technology

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 02 Nov 15 - No Cached
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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 02 Nov 15
     
    Using speech-to-text takes time to practice. Great article explaining the impact it had on one young learner.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Using Technology to Break the Speed Barrier of Reading - Scientific American - 0 views

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visual_literacy literacy technology comprehension reading

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Unfortunately, the system of reading we inherited from the ancient scribes —the method of reading you are most likely using right now — has been fundamentally shaped by engineering constraints that were relevant in centuries past, but no longer appropriate in our information age.
  • search for innovative engineering solutions aimed at making reading more efficient and effective for more people
  • But then, by chance, I discovered that when I used the small screen of a smartphone to read my scientific papers required for work, I was able to read with much greater facility and ease.
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  • hen, in a comprehensive study of over 100 high school students with dyslexia done in 2013, using techniques that included eye tracking, we were able to confirm that the shortened line formats produced a benefit for many who otherwise struggled with reading.
  • For example, Marco Zorzi and his colleagues in Italy and France showed in 2012 that when letter spacing is increased to reduce crowding, children with dyslexia read more effectively.
  • A clever web application called Beeline Reader, developed by Nick Lum, a lawyer from San Francisco, may accomplish something similar using colors to guide the reader’s attention forward along the line.  Beeline does this by washing each line of text in a color gradient, to create text that looks a bit like a tie-dyed tee-shirt.
  • one aims to increase the throughput of the brain’s reading buffers by changing their capacity for information processing, while the other seeks to activate alternate channels for reading that will allow information to be processed in parallel, and thereby increase the capacity of the language processing able to be performed during reading. 
  • The brain is said to be plastic, meaning that it is possible to change its abilities.
  • people can be taught to roughly double their reading speed, without compromising comprehension.
  • Consider that we process language, first and foremost, through speech. And yet, in the traditional design of reading we are forced to read using our eyes. Even though the brain already includes a fully developed auditory pathway for language, the traditional design for reading makes little use of the auditory processing capabilities of the brain
  • While the visual pathways are being strained to capacity by reading, the auditory network for language remains relatively under-utilized.
  • Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Sep 15
     
    "Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper."
Mary van der Heijden

Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles - 0 views

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wordcloud tagxedo

shared by Mary van der Heijden on 09 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Mary van der Heijden on 09 Sep 12
     
    Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Louise Phinney

R.I.P. handwriting… | Ben Grundy: There's a World Out There - 0 views

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handwriting

shared by Louise Phinney on 09 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Mar 12
     
    Blog post from CIS teacher Ben Grundy about handwriting's slow demise. "With the continual development of technology features such as predictive text, autocorrect and speech recognition, along with the rapidly developing field of mobile technology giving us access to these tools whenever we need to 'write', it's safe to say that we no longer need to handwrite. Well, at least not in length."
  • Louise Phinney on 10 Mar 12
     
    Interesting article - The age of teaching handwriting is finished!
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