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The Missing Puzzle Piece: Leveraging Text-to-Speech to Support Diverse Learners

Ended Mar 26, 2019
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Date:  Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Time:  10:00am to 11:00am
Location: TBA
Instructor(s): Mark Nichols - TLOS

Description:
Did you know that Virginia Tech has a campus wide license of Texthelp's Read&Write for Windows/MAC that is available to EVERY student and employee...for FREE? In this workshop participants will explore how to differentiate instruction using the diverse features of the Read&Write toolbar suite as well as augment student learning through reading, writing, research and study skill technology. Tools include text-to-speech, talking phonetic and picture dictionaries, word prediction, talking calculators, research collector with auto bibliography, language translation with auto sumarization and much more. What are you waiting for? This is one workshop you won't want to miss!

1. Participants will employ 3 tools from the Read&Write toolbar to support, improve or enhance writing, reading, and research