Whoa. Dropbox just doubled the amount of space that I have with them. Two hours ago, I had 84 GB of space. I just renewed my premium subscription – $99 for 50 GB of space and then I pay an additional $39 for the “pack rat” unlimited undo history add-on. For an annual cost of […]
Dragon Naturally Speaking, Microsoft Word, and Windows Live Writer
I really like Microsoft Word. Sure, I use Google Docs in the classroom with my students. No one does online collaboration like Google – Microsoft and Wikispaces just can’t compare. I love how you can have multiple students working in the same Google document at the same time, and Google does a great job of […]
Talking to your students about email safety online
As parents and teachers, we know our students are growing up in a digital age so there's a lot of discussion about how to teach children to be safe online. Conversations about online safety usually revolve around inappropriate websites, Facebook privacy settings, stranger-dangers, and thinking twice before you click and text that friend a compromising […]
WordQ and SpeakQ: Assistive Technology for the Classroom
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 […]
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