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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.


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By Karol McCool & Alicia Hallex

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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.
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  • 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
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  • 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.

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  • 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.
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  • 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.

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  • 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.