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A Selection of Study Applications (HE/FE)

by E.A. Draffan on Feb 22, 2011

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These slides have a selection of technologies that may help those studying in HIgher Education - they may especially suit those with specific learning difficulties including dyslexia.

These slides have a selection of technologies that may help those studying in HIgher Education - they may especially suit those with specific learning difficulties including dyslexia.

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Open source ClipTalk http://fullmeasure.co.uk/cliptalk/ Portable Dspeech http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/ Free ReadPlease 2003 http://www.readplease.com/ Mobile phone Vod Lite Daisy and Speak it! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vod-lite/id398997553?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speak-it-text-to-speech/id308629295?mt=8 Built in text to speech such as VoiceOver Commercial Texthelp, Claro, Dolphin, Don Johnston etc http://www.emptech.info/products_by_subcategory.php?ID=211 Online VozMe copy and paste and A T bar http://vozme.com/index.php?lang=en http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ToolBar/
Spell checking Open source Aspell http://aspell.net/ ATbar http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ToolBar/ Portable OpenOffice http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable D ictionaries http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries Free FreeSpell http://hcidesign.com/freespell/ Mobile phone Speller http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speller-free-spell-checker/id305997247?mt=8 Commercial Oribi VeritySpell http://www.earlbright.com/OribiVeritySpell.asp Online Ghotit http://www.ghotit.com/ Ginger http://www.gingersoftware.com/ Google Toolbar http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/toolbar/ff/index.html
Graphical mapping Open source XMind http://www.xmind.net/ Portable Freemnd http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Free Axon Lite version - complex http://web.singnet.com.sg/~axon2000/download.htm Mobile phone MyMind Gstart http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mymind-g-start-mindmapping/id418726097?mt=8 Commercial Inspiration, MindView, iMindmap, Mindmanager, MindGenius, ClaroIdeas, Spark Learner etc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concept_mapping_and_mind_mapping_software Online MindMeister, Gliffy and many others Http://www.mindmeister.com http://www.gliffy.com/
Reminders Open source TaskCoach to do lists and reminders http://www.taskcoach.org/ Portable Stickies portable http://www.portablestickies.com/ Free VueMinder Calendar http://www.vueminder.com/ SoundTimer for setting times http://www.sensorysoftware.com/soundtimer.html Mobile phone ReQall to do list voice and text plus reminders - links online http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reqall/id284930649?mt=8# Commercial Calendars as part of the Operating System or Office Suite Online Remember the Milk http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
Speech Recognition Open source Simon Listens http://simon-listens.org/index.php?id=122&L=1 Portable Possibly CMU Sphinx in the future! http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/ Free e-Speaking - Using Microsoft's Speech Engine (for Vista and Windows7) http://www.e-speaking.com/publish.htm Mobile phone Dragon Mobile apps http://www.dragonmobileapps.com/ Commercial Dragon NaturallySpeaking http://www.nuance.co.uk Microsoft Windows speech recognition / SpeakQ http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Set-up-Speech-Recognition and http://www.goqsoftware.com/writing-products/speakq/ Online Google voice search http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-search/
Scanning and OCR Open source Tesseract-ocr http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ Portable TopOCR - still available but now SnapReader http://topocr.en.softonic.com/ and http://www.topocr.com/topocr.html Free SimpleOCR http://www.simpleocr.com/ Mobile phone Prizmo for iPhone with Acapela TTS http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prizmo/id366791896?mt=8&affId=1306247 and http://www.acapela-for-iphone.com/ OcrNOW! Lite https://my.ocrnow.com/iphone Commercial Lite versions come with the scanner Online Free OCR for limited amounts http://www.free-ocr.com/
Dictionaries Open source Yadabyte portable dictionary http://www.yadabyte.com/Yadabyte_Portables.php Portable Lingoes Translation and Speech http://www.pendriveapps.com/lingoes-portable-dictionary/ Free WordWeb Dictionary and Thesaurus http://wordweb.info/ Mobile phone Dictionary! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dictionary/id293283136?mt=8 Commercial Concise Oxford English Dictionary with speech http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/ Online Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/ HowJSay http://www.howjsay.com/
Calculators Open source SpeedCrunch http://speedcrunch.org/en_US/download.html Portable Converber Portable http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/converber_portable Free FRS Talking Calculator http://fastrabbitsoftware.com/talking_calculator.htm Mobile phone Fusion Calculator Lite app http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fusion-calculator-lite/id383549067?mt=8 Commercial Premier Talking Calculator http://www.premierathome.com/products/TalkingCalculator.php Online Online Calculators http://www.online-calculators.co.uk/ Kids Talking Calculator http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/calculator/index.html
Note taking Open source Basket Note Pads http://basket.kde.org/index.php Portable Evernote http://www.evernote.com/ Free Trial IdeaRover http://www.idearover.com/ Mobile phone Evernote http://www.evernote.com/ Commercial Microsoft OneNote http://emea.microsoftstore.com/UK/en-GB/Microsoft/OneNote-2010 Online TopicMarks http://topicmarks.com/
Open source JabRef http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ Portable Zotero with Portable Firefox http://www.zotero.org/ Free Zotero with Firefox http://www.zotero.org/ Mobile phone Mendeley Lite http://www.mendeley.com/ Commercial Reference Manager http://www.adeptscience.co.uk Online CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org/
Assistive Technology triangle – from Access Technologies at the top representing the assistive technologies such as screen readers and magnification or specialist text to speech, next personalisation and accessibility where desktop changes are made and built in accessibility tools are used to Productivity which is where built in spell checkers and auto correct may help to the final layer including f ree, open source, mobile, portable and online technologies which for some maybe the most important. This is not a hierarchy of tools but rather a complete toolkit approach.

A Selection of Study Applications (HE/FE) — Presentation Transcript

Free or Open Source
- Are we really going free range? E.A. Draffan
Overview
- Options
- Delivery System
- Study Strategies
Types of Technology Each example given is one of many! All are different!
- Text to speech
- Spell checking
- Graphical mapping
- Reminders
- Speech Recognition
- Scanning and OCR
- Dictionaries
- Calculators
- Note taking
- References
Think strategy – find the tools
Text to Speech
Spell checking
Graphical mapping
Reminders
Speech Recognition
Scanning and OCR
Dictionaries
Calculators
Note taking
References
Many Facets of Assistive Technology Assistive Technologies Mainstreaming
Thank You E.A. Draffan Learning Societies Lab, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. Mobile 07976 289103 E-mail: [email_address] http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk/