More Assistive Technology and UDL Tools and Extensions
These are already available for our students or can be made available for our students. If you're
interested in using any of these and would like support &/or want to collaborate, please contact me!
*Most of these tools are listed in this resource: Learning Prep School Extensions and Applications
Accessibility Related
TTS OnTheGo.movUse Your Mobile Device to turn written or typed text into audio! For written directions, click here.
Immersive Reader is a robust TTS Chrome extension with options to highlight specific parts of speech (e.g., nouns, verbs), break apart words by syllables, and see words represented as pictures. For CB extension click here.
For info on the OpenDyslexic Chrome Extension click here.
Mote: Create Voice Notes anywhere! Click here for Chrome extension.
Screen Shader : Change text and background colors.
Postlight Reader: Get rid of ads and pop-ups with option to save as a pdf. Click here for CB extension.
Multimedia Creation and Collaboration
Make Beliefs Comix: Express your ideas and stories in comics! Check out Help for Students and Special Needs Tabs. There's so much to explore.
Book Creator: For creating multimedia books. This is one of my favorites!! For Playlist with tons of videos click here. The free plan allows 40 books and it could be a great way to share student work with their families!
Padlet: Real-time collaborative web platform in which users can upload, organize, and share content to virtual bulletin boards called "padlets". Like a virtual scrapbook!
Flip (formerly Flipgrid): Create safe, online groups for students to express their ideas asynchronously in short video, text, and audio format.
Wakelet: Save any kind of content into beautiful collections you can share with your students, your learning communities, and the world!
Canva: Canva for Education is 100% free! Create and personalize lesson plans, infographics, posters, video, and more. Another great tool for showing off student work; I'm using it for our upcoming Panther Post.
Math Supports
Kami for Math (also check out the Kami library for math support tools (multiplication table, etc.) and worksheets
KiwiWrite provides an online math space for students with handwriting challenges.
KiwiWrite YouTube Channel: lots of helpful, short videos
The KiwiWrite Tech Spotlight video to the right is 42min long.
Orbit Note by TextHelp: Sign up for webinar to see the new math tools!
**Link to OrbitNote Math Tools Webinar from 11/14/2023
In this live session, we’ll show you how learners and educators can use brand new built-in features in OrbitNote to:
Write digital math problems by speaking them aloud with our speech-to-math tool
Transform a handwritten math problem into a digital math problem, automatically
Create and edit equations with ease with the help of our prediction and screen capture tools.
Here's an overview of OrbitNote's Math Tools
