Abi James' Presentation on Audio Notetaker and Olympus Recorders and How they can be used to support disabled students

1. Notetaking Assistive Technology:Audio Notetaker and Olympus Supporting Accessibility Through Audio Abi James iansyst abi@iansyst.co.uk

2. Audio can enhance learning by engaging learners and supporting poor readers. Use audio to support note-taking in lectures, seminars and whilst working Listen and annotate audio recordings, podcasts, audio books etc Organise and manage audio files Record personal notes and dictations Review slidesnotes & audio in one application, then share with others

3. Who’s recording? Many disabled students: dyslexic students with poor auditory processing makes note-taking difficult Physical impairment of note-taking e.g. dyspraxia, RSI visually impaired students And many other groups… Usually by individual students as college/tutor led recording is rare in UK although podcasting becoming more common

4. Audio Recording has moved on…

5. Sonocent Audio Notetaker: Visualise, annotate and engage with your notes

6. Audio Notetaker enables students to interact with audio as if it were text Audio can be represented like blocks of text

7. The Sonocent Audio Notetaker Concept Audio can be manipulated like text... ...cut, copy, paste ... formatted

8. How does Audio Notetaker work? speech pause in speech Audio Notetaker analyses a digital recording and identifies where the speaker pauses, then represents this visually.

9. What does Audio Notetaker help students do? Manage and organise their recordings Review notes alongside slides and visual information Annotate audio recordings with colour, notes and images Edit and export audio, including Podcasts to MP3 player, CDs etc Support revision and research by easier access to notes and recordings

10. Remember: Good notes are not a verbatim version of the speaker. The student learns by interpreting what they have heard and putting it into their own words…. even if that is just a few key words to jog their memory

11. Audio Notetaker v2 demo

12. Sonocent Rich Audio Viewer Share Audio Notetaker files for free. Easily distribute notes and recordings to peers and colleagues Where appropriate, Audio Notetaker files can be submitted as coursework or evidence of ability Audio Notetaker files can be used as an alternative format for podcasting, to benefit from Audio Notetaker’s easy navigation and flexible interface

14. Audio Notetaker feedback… “A fantastic program - so easy to use. An absolute must for anyone using dictation.” “Very impressed with it actually! It will be great for visual students who have dyslexia!” “The visual aspects made the recording a lot easier to follow!”

15. Users really found it useful to... “be able to save and print notes to/from word document” “saves names of modules and lecturers” “write notes next to dictation” “being able to mark and highlight key points, able to save key points separately” “being able to split sections up and make notes or even just a heading to a particular subject”

16. Olympus Assistive Technology The new DM-5 recorder and organiser

18. Improved voice feedback of all functions in the menu

19. Daisy Playback & Audio Book SupportText to Speech - upload text files for verbal playback

21. Records in WMA/MP3/PCM

22. Increased 8GB memory size & up to 16GB external micro SD

23. over 2000 minutes recording time

24. Schedule/Calendar

25. use simple voice commands to add calendar entries, to do lists etc.

27. Contact details: Abi James iansyst Ltd Fen House Fen Road Cambridge CB4 1UN Email: abi@iansyst.co.uk Tel: 01223 420101 Web: www.dyslexic.com www.iansyst.co.uk www.itspc.co.uk