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Dictate

A free Microsoft tool Dictation lets you use speech-to-text to author content in Office with a microphone and reliable internet connection. It’s a quick and easy way to get your thoughts out, create drafts or outlines, and capture notes. Top Tips and Links Top Tip Try saying “new line”, “delete”, “bold that”, and “start list” […]

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Flipgrid

A free tool available on Chrome https://youtu.be/lfB4c701Pj8 Flipgrid allows students to record simple videos or audio explaining their understanding. Teachers can give private feedback or public peer feedback is also an option. Top Tips and Links Top Tip Use the mixtape option to create a highlight reel of great examples Download & Learn More Click

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Caret Browsing

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/1v71qsZDk8A This extension allows your to navigate through a webpage using your keyboard instead of a touchpad or mouse. You can select and move through text, move the cursor one word at a time and select blocks of text using keyboard shortcuts. When you are on the page you would like to

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Zoom

A free Google tool https://youtu.be/b49C7uLz2oM Zoom is a lightweight and useful extension designed to get a perfect zoom experience for users with visual needs. Once installed, the extension allows you to very simply zoom in or out on an entire webpage of content using the zoom button and mouse scroll wheel for more comfortable reading

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Read Aloud

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/Jz7VnV86rY8 With the Read aloud extension, a user can literally choose to read aloud text content with one click, using text to speech technology. Supporting over 40 languages, Read Aloud converts webpage text to audio. It works on a variety of websites such as news sites, blogs and publications and with the

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Touch

A default iPad function https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urma1F5Rx8Q If a user has difficulty using the touchscreen or buttons, you can personalise how an iPad responds to your touch. Whilst in the iPad’s Settings and by then navigating to the Accessibility folder, you will find these accessibility features under the title Touch. Assistive touch allows you to use your

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