Bookshare
Bookshare accounts are available to all staff as needed to serve specific special education students. Contact your AT Coordinator for more information
Purpose:
To provide students with access to digital versions of text that needs to be accessed for learning. This includes text books, current literature, as well as classic texts.
Student Requirements:
Student must have either a visual disability, physical disability, or reading disability (basic reading) supported by an IEP.
Students will need to be able to use read out loud to access the digital file. Read:OutLoud requires the student to be able to navigate the computer and comprehend auditory information.
How it works:
Bookshare is a repository of electronic text from many different sources. Students with a qualifying disability get free membership through their educational institution and can apply for individual membership as well. Once accounts are created, teachers/students can download digital versions of materials and then use the computer to "read" the content out loud to the student.
Skills Videos:
Searching & Downloading a book
Download and Install Read:OutLoud
Applying for individual membership
Competency Activity - Creating a new student and downloading a book for that student.
1. Create a new student account
2. Search for "The Hunger Games Trilogy"
3. Download "The Hunger Games Trilogy" for the newly created student and save it on your desktop.
4. Unzip the downloaded folder.
5. Open the unzipped folder
6. Take a screenshot of the open folder (or a picture with your cell phone, camera, etc) and send it to your AT Coordinator.
Course Credit
To receive credit for this course in MyLearningPlan, employee must:
1. Register for Intro to Bookshare - Online Course in My Learning Plan
2. Complete the Competency Activity.
3. Email your AT Coordinator to request credit.