By Karol McCool & Alicia Hallex Highlights Primarily developed - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

By Karol McCool & Alicia Hallex

Highlights

• Primarily developed to assist students with reading, writing,

research, and study skills.

• Works with many programs like Microsoft Office, Internet

browsers, PDF, JPG & other files.

• Supports existing curriculum.
• Customizable to student needs.
• Floating or anchored, easy to use toolbar with icons.

• Read Aloud
• Text to Speech: Reads anything on your screen, including websites,

images, flash and PDF files.

• Speech Options:
• Different Voices
• English (Male or Female)
• Spanish (accent and translator)
• Edit Pronunciations
• Highlighting
• Choose volume of text
• Select only the text you want to be read out loud

• Fact Finder: Helps students research information quickly by

searching the web for relevant information about a topic.

• Fact Folder: Students can prepare and store information for

research assignments or when writing reports.

• Online Fact Mapper: Students are able to produce a visual

representation of facts and ideas on screen. Useful for brainstorming, drafting, and revising work.

• Highlighting: Highlights work in Word & Internet Explorer in

various manners. This info can be exported to a new Word document with bibliographic info in APA, MLA or Harvard format.

• Confusable Words Checker: Identifies homophones and other

commonly confused words with alternate choices. Provides

• definitions. Speech enabled.
• Speech Maker: 20,000 characters of text can be selected and

converted into an audio file e.g. MP3 or WAV

• Voice choice, speed and pitch choice
• Helpful for auditory learners.

• Dictionary/Picture Dictionary: Sample sentences and
• descriptions. Word and definition are speech-enabled.
• Word Prediction: Assistance with word choice. When typing,

predicts next word in sentence.

• Verb Checker: Helps determine correct verb conjugation.

Student is able to choose from past, present, or future tense of verb.

• Spell Checker: Speech enabled; Audible definitions and sample

sentences, encourages vocabulary development.

• Highlight or hover over any part of your screen and virtually any

text will be read aloud.

• Dual color highlighting.
• Converts “screenshot” text to Word documents.