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Genially

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An Interactive Creativity Tool

Motivating isn’t always easy. Genially is the tool schools use to teach and learn through interactive learning materials. The digital transformation has arrived, for all education stages and students. Visual content captures everyone’s attention. 90% of the information we process is visual. Interactivity makes you explore and discover information on our own. Memorable content. Drag and drop, knowledge checks

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Reuse existing content from the resources library and adapt. Share content across departments and schools.

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Orbitnote

Orbitnote

Make PDFs More Accessible & Actionable

Orbitnote takes a pdf and makes it accessible to all, reading aloud text from the document. Students can add notes, annotate their pdfs and highlight key terms. The inbuilt dictionaries, including picture ones, support students in understanding key terms and text.

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Highlight key terms for students ahead of lesson and produce a vocabulary list to share to help overcome barriers for students who may struggle with the text.

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Helperbird

An accessibility/productivity tool

Helperbird is your all-in-one extension, designed to help everyone with personalized support to make web pages, apps and Pdfs more accessible and productive to an individual’s abilities, learning styles, and lifestyle.

Helperbird offers a range of powerful tools to customize the web to your needs to improve accessibility, reading, writing, studying and productivity. 

Our award winning writing, reading, accessibility  dyslexia support features include Dyslexia rulers,dyslexia fonts, Voice typing translations, word prediction, text to speech, and overlays. 

Other popular features include Reading Mode, Immersive Reader by Microsoft, Text to speech with natural voices, Text extraction from images and videos (OCR), Voice typing, also 30 other accessibility features.

 

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You can use immersive reader on PDF and Google doc files. What is the best link associated to the tool?

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PowerPoint Closed Captions

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A tool within PowerPoint

Adding closed captions makes your presentation accessible to a larger audience, including people with hearing disabilities and those who speak languages other than the one in your video.

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If you need to edit a closed caption file that is inserted in a video in PowerPoint, you can first remove the file, modify it, and then add it back to the video.

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Windows 10 Colour Blind Features

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A tool within Immersive Reader

Color filters change the color palette on the screen and can help you distinguish between things that differ only by color.

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To get to color filter settings in previous versions of Windows 10, select Start > Settings > Ease of Access > Color & high contrast.

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Epic

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A tool within Immersive Reader

Epic has several read-to-me books so students who can’t read the text can listen to the book on Epic. The books are high-interest. This is a great resource for elementary students, especially the younger grades. This is free for educators and students at school. It is a paid subscription that parents can purchase for use at home.

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There are several popular fiction and nonfiction books on the Epic website!

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Book Creator

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An Online Tool & App

Book Creator’s mission has always been to bring digital publishing to all, and allow educators the means to personalise lessons for all types of learners. There’s extensive accessibility features available that make Book Creator easier to use for everyone.

Features include;

  • Dictation now supports 120 languages
  • Add captions to video
  • Add a transcript to audio recordings
  • Navigate using your keyboard
  • Improved color contrast
  • Improved screen reader support

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Book Creator is a tool used by thousands of educators from across the world. Check out their website for some excellent examples of digital book creating!

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CopyFish

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A free online tool

Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.
Do you need to extract text from images, videos or PDF? If yes, then the Copyfish Screenshot Reader is for you. Copyfish turns text within any image captured from your screen into an editable format without retyping – making it easy to reuse in digital documents, emails or reports.

Common reasons to extract text from images are to google it, store it, email it or translate it. Until now, your only option was to retype the text. Copyfish is so much faster and more fun.

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“Images” come in many forms: photographs, charts, diagrams, screenshots, PDF documents, comics, error messages, memes and YouTube movies.

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Grips and styluses for touchscreen devices

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Many individuals, particularly those with mobility impairments utilise a stylus, with added weight, large diameters, ergonomic grips and/or flexibility to ensure that their learning experience is optimised.

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They have proven beneficial for many individuals with autism, learning and cognitive disabilities, mobility impairments and so much more!

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Dark Mode in Office

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A tool within Immersive Reader

In Outlook for Microsoft 365, the black color theme includes dark mode, which provides a black background (instead of white) for the message window

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Go to toolbar and select File, then select Office Account to select Office color themes.

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