Text to Speech

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Permalink Reply by Marcy Perry on January 12, 2012 at 1:16pm

Great idea Tricia. I'm going to try that with my students that have trouble recognizing their edits. Thanks Marcy

Permalink Reply by Donna Gath Criswell on January 12, 2012 at 1:17pm

Way to go Tricia!  I know that you incorporate a variety of techniques and technologies to support the diverse learners in your charge!  I'm glad you found yet one more tool to use!

Permalink Reply by Peggy Coyne on January 12, 2012 at 1:56pm

A wonderful example of Checkpoint 3.3 - Guide information processing, visualization, and manipulation-- where by providing immediate feedback, students are transferring that information into knowledge and becoming more independent in their ability to comprehend and evaluate their own work. Glad to hear it's working so well for you and the students.

Peggy

Permalink Reply by Ann M. Eppling on January 12, 2012 at 1:56pm

I saw this used at a summer workshop. It is great... maybe you can give me a refresher on how to use it?? Would love to stop by.

Ann

Permalink Reply by Robin Sallese on January 13, 2012 at 1:36pm

It might be great to show us how to use this at a faculty meeting. I personally would love a way that goes Speech to text and have our class discussions recorded so that kids could go home with a copy of notes for discussions... there wouldbe so many directions with which to go once I knew that all kids had access to  discussion as a reference for essays, or later discussions, or open response questions, etc.

Permalink Reply by joanne shorser-gentile on January 12, 2012 at 5:04pm

What fun Tricia........!!!!!!!! what principal/guideline/checkpoint is that....

Also, I did 2 activities with my 6th grade class. Does anyone remember PRINCIPLE, GUIDELINE, CHECKPOINT locations for Bitstrips ?

 I found it the first day at the workshop and forgot to write down where i found it!!!!!!  Thanks to all. joannes.g.

Permalink Reply by Ben DeMott on January 13, 2012 at 7:39am

Have you (or anyone) used "Speech to Text" tools at all?  Dragon is the one I hear advertised often.  I wonder whether the speech recognition abilities are as good as they sound.

The Text to Speech sounds like a great use of technology to get students to do something they would not do otherwise!

Permalink Reply by Patricia Riley on January 13, 2012 at 1:14pm

Hi Ben,

One of my students uses Dragon in the classroom. This is a program that would need to be purchased by the school or Special Education Dept. if appropriate.

Permalink Reply by marlo_strout on January 13, 2012 at 1:19pm

There is a free Dragon app for the ipad that does a pretty good job.  But it requires having an ipad.  It does decently for one person and gets better over time (when used consistently by one person).  It does well enough in a group discussion to catch key words and phrases to remind what a discussion was about, but not a transcript.

Permalink Reply by Tom Rawson on January 13, 2012 at 1:29pm

Dragon is the best but it takes a lot of training and the materials and user interface are not easy to understand.

Permalink Reply by Christine Carosella on January 13, 2012 at 1:28pm

Tricia, a great idea.  I sometimes require students to read their own writing orally in class.  It really helps them notice mistakes and make corrections.  I'm always encouraging them to do it at home also, but most of them don't do this.  Using the text-to-speech is a good resource that they may be able to use at home.