The document discusses how the Read&Write for Google Chrome tool can enhance blended learning by creating an inclusive environment for both teachers and students. It outlines the tool's features designed to support reading and writing, promotes its use in educational settings, and provides guidelines for training and implementation. The presentation emphasizes the importance of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and accessibility for all learners.

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How can
Read&Write for Google Chrome
transform blended learning for teachers
and students by creating a truly
inclusive learning environment?
Rhianon E. Gutierrez, MA
Digital Learning Specialist, OIIT Digital Learning Team
Boston Teachers Union Professional Learning Conference
June 4, 2016

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“With the expansive new
capabilities of digital media,
print’s disabilities will
become ever more obvious,
for all students.”
Rose D.H., Johnston, S.C., & Vanden Boogart, A. (2014). Canaries in the mine:
Reading and its disabilities in a post-Gutenberg world. Perspectives on Language
and Literacy, (40)1:41-44.

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Accessibility Universal Design
Universal Design for
Learning (UDL)
What
laws that require you to
provide access
a framework where we can use
empathy to design things that
include people from the start
a framework for teaching and
learning that involves proactive
planning to design flexible
learning experiences
Who
people with disabilities all people, including people with
disabilities
variable learners
Guiding Frameworks

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Google Apps for Education
(GAFE)

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GAFE can be UDL,
when you dig
deeper...

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Google Drive can store many file types which can
be directly edited, shared, and viewed from any
computer or mobile device

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Google’s Chrome browser and Chrome Web Store
extensions personalize research and interaction
with various GAFE apps

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Google Apps and the Chrome browser can be
accessed on all devices

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“It’s not a SPED tool; it’s a 21st
century tool.”
-BPS Teacher Amy G.

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Read&Write is a Chrome
extension that supports
reading and writing, gives
students choice and
autonomy in research and
assignments, complements
digital curricula, and
supports collaborative work
in various Google Apps.

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BPS Read&Write Trainings
● Officially pushed out district-wide in December 2015
● All BPS emails have access to this extension
● OIIT has led conference, department, and school-based trainings on functional
and strategic uses of the tool
● Texthelp’s Literacy Specialist led intensive training on strategies in March 2016
● Blended delivery method for trainings using GAFE tools: Classroom, Sites,
Slides, and Docs
● Trainings and resources designed around UDL principles
What I’ve Learned in Teaching About Read&Write: http://bit.ly/RW4GC_RGblog

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View more artifacts created
by these students and see
them in action.
Students at the Perry K-8 collaborated on a Google Doc and
shared ideas about using Read&Write.

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A student at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf created this
document and used highlights, dictionary, and text to speech.

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A BPS inclusion teacher used the Vocabulary feature of
Read&Write with Google Docs’ Research feature.

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Now, how can I
use this tool or
teach others how
to use it?

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Functional Criteria
Read&Write Setup Instructions: http://tiny.cc/BPSRWsetup
Open your Chrome browser.
You will always use this
browser.
Sign into the Chrome browser
with your BPS email. You must
always use this email. When you open Read&Write
for the first time, you’ll need
to allow permissions.

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Task Comprehending Organizing Composing
Features
Text to speech (Hover
Speech)
Screenshot Reader
Dictionary
Picture Dictionary
Fact Finder
Translator
Speech Maker
Simplify
Font Options (EPUB)
Highlights
Vocabulary List
Bookmarks (EPUB)
Settings
Word Prediction
Speech Input
Voice Note
Annotations (PDF,
EPUB)
Read&Write’s Features

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How can we use
Read&Write with these?
● A news website
● A shared article or essay (Google Doc)
● Reading assignment (PDF)
● Digital book (EPUB)

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Teaching Read&Write
1. Do a pre-assessment survey.
2. Choose a location with reliable internet connection.
3. Have a designated online landing zone where all materials can be accessed.
4. Make sure all your materials are accessible.
5. Give yourself and participants time to play around and ask questions.
6. Have an exit ticket, reflect, and apply changes.

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Read&Write
Q&A

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Video Resources
BPS Read&Write Tutorials
(CC)
Texthelp Read&Write Tutorials
(CC)

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Web Resources
BPS Read&Write Landing Zone: http://tiny.cc/readwritebps
Read&Write Setup: http://tiny.cc/BPSRWsetup
Read&Write Interactive Agenda with Google and Bookshare resources:
http://tiny.cc/RWagenda
Rhianon’s BTU Read&Write Blog: http://bit.ly/RW4GC_RGblog
OIIT Digital Learning Team: www.bostonpublicschools.org/dlt

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Credits
This presentation by R.E. Gutierrez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
license (CC-BY-NC-SA).
White icons from The Noun Project. CC BY Pham Thi Dieu Linh, Sven Gabriel, Viktor Vorobeyev, Chad Remsing, Laurent
Canivet, and Oleg Frolov.
Read&Write for Google Chrome logo courtesy Texthelp.
Slide 3: Screenshot from Gee, J.P. (2007). What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy. New York, NY:
Palgrave MacMillan.