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Jisc RSC Eastern eFair 2012 'Free enabling technologies'
This document discusses free enabling technologies that can support staff and students. It provides information on technologies like text-to-speech, screen reading software, mind mapping tools, and spelling and grammar checkers. Case studies are presented on how these technologies have helped students and staff at South Lanarkshire College. Links are included to guides and video demonstrations of different free technologies.
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- 1. Free enabling technologies supportingstaff and students Margaret McKay Advisor: Inclusion JISC RSC Scotland
- 2. Free Enabling Technologies= Inclusion for Everyone Hidden Hidden Disabilities Disabilities Disclosed Disclosed Disabilities Disabilities Elderly Elderly People People Assistive technology solutions can make a significant difference to a much wider range of people. Literacy Literacy support support Especially free technologies that can help a wide range of technology users. Employees Employees School & School & College College Students Students English English Language Language support support
- 3. These slides willprovide you with information on a range of free and open source enabling technologies which have the capacity to support a wide range of users (not just those with disabilities).
- 4. As well asproviding links to sources of where to find these resources, links will take you to short video/audio clips of students and staff talking about how they have used these technologies.
- 5. Feel free tocopy this presentation onto a pen drive if you want to take it away and investigate further.
- 6. Free enabling technologyfor all case study South Lanarkshire College
- 7. Lecturers views onusing free enabling technologies to support all learners (not just those with disclosed additional support needs) Listen Teaching Staff at South Lanarkshire College http://bit.ly/SLC_STAFF
- 8. Students views onusing free enabling technologies (not just students with disabilities) Listen Students at South Lanarkshire College http://bit.ly/slc_students
- 9. Implementing a CrossInstitutional Approach to Embedding Free Inclusive Technologies on all Computers Read the full case study at: http://bit.ly/slc-staff-students
- 10. Strategic approach tointegrating free enabling technologies across an institution (for the benefit of all staff and for all learners) Listen to Managers at South Lanarkshire College http://bit.ly/m42dgO
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- 12. Using free textto MP3/Audio to learn lines in acting performance course: A student perspective Hear what Janet has to say at: http://bit.ly/lnAdk1
- 13. Listen to Melanietalking about how she uses free text to speech to listen to her coursework at: http://bit.ly/l4Ohxl
- 14. Portable Balabolka is avery good free Windows text-to-speech tool. It includes magnification (2X to 16X) and spell checking. It is also keyboard accessible. This software will create audio files on an iPod or other mobile device. Watch the tutorial http://youtu.be/OzJGXMAKXPk
- 15. Other Free Textto Speech Software Follow these links for more information and to watch video demonstrations WordTalk (a free text to speech plug in for MS Word) http://youtu.be/SicL4gkIR5g http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/Home/
- 16. Reading and WritingSupport
- 17. Using free spellchecker andtyping tutor software Listen to Rachel at: http://bit.ly/j3gNi5 The Sage Spellchecker www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html TypeFaster Typing Tutor: http://www.typefastertypingtutor.com/
- 18. Free Spellchecking Software Followthese links for more information and to watch video demonstrations Ginger Grammar and Spellchecker http://youtu.be/XJqc5JIiDCI
- 19. Reading and WritingSupport RapidSet SS Overlay Portable
- 20. Staff using freetechnologies to personalise how they access information Listen to a member of staff who is dyslexic talking about how she uses free tools to meet her learning/working preferences http://youtu.be/ktKUQAgpHyE
- 21. Listen to alecturer describe how he uses free technologies in his lectures (magnifier, mind mapping, recording and highlighting software) http://tinyurl.com/7765haa
- 22. AT Bar http://www.atbar.org/ •Surf theWeb Your Way •Effortlessly change the appearance of webpages, or have pages read aloud to you. Built-in referencing, dictionary and spelling tools make online reading and writing a snap.
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- 24. XMind Mind Mapping freeand portable Mind mapping can help individuals who think, plan and learn visually. Can be helpful for people with cognitive barriers or difficulties with memory/organisation. http://youtu.be/6YyJNCZLZ4A Go to View > Header & Footer to edit Image courtesy of Julia Taylor JISC RSC
- 25. Mind Meister MindMapping Web based with collaboration facility Find out more at: http://vimeo.com/33957715
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- 27. Free Screen ReadingSoftware to assist blind students Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) http://www.nvda-project.org/
- 28. Listen to astudent talk about how she uses Non Visual Desktop Access NVDA http://tinyurl.com/Jade-NVDA
- 29. How NVDA rescuesthe most expensive on the market Follow this link to find out more about how NVDA Inclusive society http://inclusivesociety.wordpress.com
- 30. RoboBraille Web based textto speech http://www.robobraille.org/online Watch a video about RoboBraille http://bit.ly/abkbz6 * Learn now to convert pictures to words and text to sound using RoboBraille http://bit.ly/p9nqZc With RoboBraille you can save to MP3 or Digtial Talking Book/DAISY Format
- 31. WebAnywhere is aweb-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/
- 32. Thunder Portable and download Thunderis award-winning free screen reader talking software for people with little or no sight. It works well with Windows 7, Vista or XP. Thunder is available all over the world in 8 languages and it really is absolutely free Learn more about Thunder Screen Reader http://bit.ly/g3UiSH Listen to the creators of Thunder Screen Reader http://tinyurl.com/3yat47o
- 33. Enable Ireland Low costscreen readers http://youtu.be/a8Gsan0ArZQ
- 34. Free Enabling Technologies supportingstaff and students Margaret McKay Advisor: Inclusion JISC RSC Scotland
Editor's Notes
- #3 In many organisations accessibility is associated with a particular group of people (disabled learners) and a particular group of staff (learner support or disability officers). This perception is unhelpful for two reasons: It may fail to recognise the spectrum of accessibility needs which goes beyond learners with declared disabilities. It may fail to recognise the very significant role that well informed teaching and learning staff e.g. lecturers, trainer, tutors, librarians or technicians, can bring to the learner’s experience.
- #15 Balabolka is a Russian word that means “chatterer”. Balabolka is also very good free text-to-speech software for the PC, running in all versions of Windows–from Windows 2000 through Windows 7. There are two versions of the program, one that is installed on a host computer, and a portable version that will run from a USB flash drive. Balabolka is available in the following 15 languages: English; Bulgarian; Chinese, Czech; Dutch; French; German; Hungarian; Italian; Polish; Brazilian Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Spanish; Ukrainian.
- #20 Rapidset and SS Overlay
- #23 Surf the Web Your Way Effortlessly change the appearance of webpages, or have pages read aloud to you. Built-in referencing, dictionary and spelling tools make online reading and writing a snap.
- #25 Mind Mapping the Benefits Non- linear Use Colour for meaning xMind can help individuals who think, plan and learn visually. Can be helpful For people with cognitive barriers & difficulties with memory & organisation.
- #32 WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/
- #33 Non Visual Desktop Access is another free screen reading software available to download. Comparison of NVDA and Thunder August 2011 Issue Volume 12 Number 8 http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw120803 Thunder is award-winning free screen reader talking software for people with little or no sight. It works well with Windows 7, Vista or XP. Thunder is available all over the world in 8 languages and it really is absolutely free Learn more about Thunder Screen Reader http://bit.ly/g3UiSH Listen to the creators of Thunder Screen Reader http://tinyurl.com/3yat47o