Kami

Kami is a Google Chrome app that allows you to take any existing document, including scanned PDFs, and write, draw, type, annotate, and comment all within your browser. Kami is integrated with two of the learning management systems used in the district - Schoology and Google Classroom. Teachers can assign materials to students and students can annotate, complete their work and turn it back in to the teacher.

Features

Dictionary

Select a word that you would like to see defined.

Text-to-Speech

Click to read the whole file out loud from the beginning. Alternatively, you can highlight the text selection that you wish to hear.

Markup Tools

To annotate, highlight or otherwise edit your file you can use the markup tools.

Comment Tools

Select text and then make either a text comment, a voice comment, video comment or create a screen capture.

Optical Character Recognition

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature is a technology designed to turn a scanned document into a fully digitally recognisable/selectable PDF. When you scan a document into a computer, it can’t read anything on it. In effect the computer just sees the file as one large image. This is why you can’t interact with any of the features on the file, merely view it. Once you upload the PDF with the OCR tool, the computer is able to read the scanned document.

Why is this a helpful feature?

Students with reading disabilities and vision impairments may not be able to fully access print text. By using OCR, the computer is able to recognize the image of text as print and students can use a variety of tools (text-to-speech, screen readers) to listen to the text.

Watch this Video for a demonstration.

Tutorials

Review the Kami Handbook
Visit Kami's YouTube channel for more tutorials
Mattison Giroux, a 4th grade teacher at Angier, created this wonderful tutorial!

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