sped-student-tools

= SPED Student Tools =

Glogster EDU
 A complete educational solution for digital & mobile teaching & learning for students of all ages. A powerful tool for students to use to create online collages that they can share with their friends & classmates. If you're not familiar with Glogster, it can best be described as an online poster creation tool with audio & video. Teachers can register for a free account to create private Glogs. Free teacher accounts do not offer any student management features, but students can register with a teacher code as all teacher accounts come with codes. Glogster EDU is free. It is easy to upload text, documents, video clips, audio files, & images. You can also upload videos from SchoolTube, TeacherTube, or YouTube. If students publish any Glogs, they can be set as either private (which is recommended) or public. It is important to remember this website is high graphic, so students need to be patience when uploading images, & to save their work frequently. Glogster can be used in any number of content areas. Students can create collages about famous figures, to create book reports, or character portrayals. As a teacher you can use it for a way to present information to your students or as an interactive learning center.

NaturalReader
NaturalReader is a free download that has the ability to convert written text to spoken words. It can read from many programs & files, such as Firefox, Safari, Word, Pages, email, & PDFs. Just copy & paste the text into the reader or turn on the Miniboard & highlight any text that you want it to read. It will then highlight the words as it reads it. You can even slow down the speed it reads to you. Finally, it can convert selected files into mp3s that can be played on portable devices like an iPod.

NaturalReader can act as a vision aide, & can also improve & help proofread students’ writing by having the computer read what you wrote. Font & text can be changed into different styles & sizes.

//Last Updated - March 2014//