Kimberly ran a session yesterday on writing so there is some cross over with tools that are useful for reading. She made a great slide deck (link here) that has explanations and links.
- Voice typing on Google Docs (only works on Chrome) – will only do punctuation unless you tell it. Can use different language inputs so would be useful for Spanish, Japanese etc. Suggested to get a set of headphones with microphones.
- Read and Write for Google Chrome. This Add on will ‘read’ text back to you. The web page version can also read text from a screen shot. The Premium version is free for teachers by going to this site to register.
- Readability Add on for Chrome. This will remove all the extraneous information from a web page. You can then share this uncluttered page with students.
- Google Dictionary Add on: After installing, by double clicking a word on a page it will give a pop out with the definition.
- More time teaching, less time tech-ing.
