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Getting Started
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What it is:
In the future, we expect a number of these tools and strategies to be incorporated into standard websites and curriculum. In fact, the National
Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard authorized in IDEA 2004 is coordinating efforts with publishers to produce standardized files that will allow creation of student-ready alternate-format versions of core textbooks. Individual states have also taken action. For instance, Maryland requires that all technology in schools meets the federal criteria for accessibility and California Law requires publisher websites to meet accessibility guidelines by 2005 with additional software access by 2009. (Ed. Code Section 60061.8) Google is scanning hundreds of thousands of books from university libraries, creating searchable digital text versions.
Also,Web 2.0 is here. At this web blog review the video that brings Web 2.0 come to life. Also check out The Infinite Thinking Machine (ITM) blog which is designed to help teachers and students thrive in the 21st century.
Publisher websites will:
- Provide text that can be read aloud by the computer
- Provide enhanced text
- Link text to a range of resources
Operating systems will:
- Provide easy, global, built-in text to speech capacity
Currently:
- Prentice Hall, Holt, Glencoe Science and others are creating online, interactive forms of their textbooks.
- McDougal Littell Inc. Reading Coach CD
- allows students to use an electronic highlighter when they read.
- includes electronic text for parts of the Bridges to Literature textbook.
- allows the creation of 'sticky notes' that are like like electronic Post-Its.
- offers audio support for pre-selected vocabulary words, reading the word and the definition.
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Textbooks of the Future
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