Posted by Allan Wilson on the 24th November, 2009
Many pupils with writing difficulties can benefit from the use of Voice Notes in Microsoft Word to record their answers to questions in a worksheet. Rather than type an answer, a pupil can speak it into a microphone and have the recording saved with the document for the teacher to review later.
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Posted by Allan Wilson on the 28th October, 2009
There are some incredible resources available free on the internet these days. (We like to think we have some pretty incredible resources available on our web sites, too, e.g. WordTalk and The Scottish Voice.) Here are a couple of American sites that I have come across recently and which are defi...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 24th July, 2009
CALL frequently receives enquiries from people seeking advice on utilities that can be used to read text from web pages. Teachers and parents may be using WordTalk to read Word documents and are now looking for something similar to read web pages.
Earlier this year CALL carried out a detailed co...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 14th May, 2009
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