News and information for staff members and the Madison community
Vol. II No. 5 - February 27, 2007
News-2-You is a fun, weekly, online, interactive newspaper for beginning readers that is available from the district's Assistive Technology web site.
There are three levels of information:
Check it out! http://dww.madison.k12.wi.us/es/SpecEd/at/index.htm (Intranet link)
Read & Write Gold is a software program that supports reading and writing skills. It has the ability to read text — on screen, from the Internet, scanned materials, etc. It has word prediction, a talking dictionary, a talking calculator, as well as a Spanish translator.
This is available to any student in the MMSD through the district server. It can be installed on computers at your school through a work order submitted to Technical Services.
Two manuals as well as six head sets are available in each school's LMC. There also is a short video tour after each icon on the toolbar.
Detailed information is available at the following websites: http://dww.madison.k12.wi.us/es/SpecEd/at/index.htm (Intranet link) or http://www.texthelp.com.
Last Updated: Mon Apr 2 14:44:11 2007
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