I would like to share the news that ISB has purchased a site license for a user-friendly chrome extension called Read&Write.
- Click on this link for an intro video.
- Click on this link for information about how this tool supports Google Documents.
- Click this link to add the extension from the Chrome Web Store. Try it out!
Read&Write offers support for Google Docs/web to students with learning difficulties, dyslexia or ELL/ESL. Apart from offering a range of powerful support tools to help students gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, Read&Write helps students:
- Hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
- See the meaning of words explained with text and picture dictionaries
- Hear text translated into other languages
- Get suggestions for the current or next word as you type
- Turn words into text as you speak
- Highlight text in documents or the web and collect for use in a separate Google document
- Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs
- Simplify and summarize text on web pages
It also works with web pages and common file types in Google Drive, including: PDF, and ePub files.
As you already know, there will be a training session offered by TextHelp at ISB after the October break. Let me know if you have any questions.
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