Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time playing around with WordQ and SpeakQ. (Mostly because my free 30 day trial is about to expire, but also because I like playing around with voice recognition software.) WordQ is a pretty neat piece of assistive technology. It’s a third-party application that helps students to write, whether […]
SpeakQ Speech Assistive Technology vs Dragon NaturallySpeaking Voice Recognition Software
WordQ is assistive technology software that helps students write by predicting their next word as they type. SpeakQ is a plug-in for WordQ that adds speech recognition. Sometimes students get stuck trying to spell a word because they are so wrong that they can’t find the word in the dictionary, and assistive technology can’t predict […]
Summer! A Time to Play with Technology for the Classroom
Well, here we are again. Another school year is over, report cards are done, and my classroom is packed up into cupboards and boxes. In between, the lazy days of summer, road trips, and spending some quality family time outside, I’m hoping to post more regularly on this site. It’s time to play with some […]
Google dictionary gives you a definition just by double-clicking a word
A few weeks ago, I read Paul Barnwell’s article about why Twitter and Facebook were not good instructional tools in the classroom. That article, combined with some recent experiences using classroom technology, really drove home the point about how we need to take classroom technology beyond the initial “wow” factor and how we need to […]
Google Docs Dictionary and Research Tools Can Help Your Students Write Better
Some students use assistive technology software as an accommodation to help them to write. For example, Talking Word Processor is nice because it predicts words as you type, and also if you double-click a word, it’ll give you the definition to help avoid homonym errors. But, not everyone needs assistive technology. Sometimes it can be […]
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