Monday, 19 February 2007

Textease - Using the 'Click to Speak' facility


Textease has a wonderful 'Click to Speak' facility. Pupils are able to gain support for their reading from clicking on a word, and hearing it spoken. For most pupils, this is a more useful facility than continuous reading of a piece of marked text. Also, if a pupil is wearing headphones, an adult can be certain that the pupil is carrying out the task.
Bordertalk, Talking Tasks and Well Worth Reading all take advantage of this facility.
On networked computers, you usually have to reset the speech option every time. Here's a helpsheet that reminds you how to do this.
www.educationict.org.uk/ictsan/docs/textease-click_on_word_to_speak.pdf

Here are links to;
Bordertalk
Talking Tasks
Well Worth Reading

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing your experience