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So much information comes at us in the form of written words (text). This might be fine most of the time but it would be helpful to adapt and change the information so that we can hear it. The opposite is true when we want to change spoken words into text. There are other ways we want to adapt information whether it is coming at us or we create it. Let's get started.
|Do Now|
- What are a couple of favorite places you go to learn? By places, we mean books, websites, apps, TV channels... Go to the Padlet Board and write down the places.
- How do you like to receive information? What format works best for you? In other words, how do you best receive information as in words (text), video, sound only, pictures or a mixture of them? Add a new note to the Padlet Board explaining which is your favorite and why.
|Check In|
- What questions do you have from last week?
- Let's do a group share. What do you think your research topic will be?
|Learning Goals|
You will...
- learn how to analyze and review apps. We have a list of questions you will answer when you review apps.
- learn about tools that help you adapt information to a new format that helps you learn better. List them in your PLS chart.
- choose your research topic.
|Learning Activities|
- App Review: Let's unpack our rubric of questions and ratings to use when reviewing apps.
- Try out and review different tools that adapt information to a new format. Let's do the Rewordify tool together. Remember to make a new copy of the Tool Review Rubric for each tool. Rename the document “Tool Review- name of the tool”.
|Tutorials|
- Making Reading Simpler: Rewordify - copy and paste difficult text into Rewordify to have it simplified.
- Voice to Text on Android: Your Android device comes with a built in tool- Google Now on older phones and Google Assistant on new ones. You can use the Gboard- Google Keyboard to click the microphone on the top right and do voice to text in any app that takes text. | In Google Docs on your computer.
- Voice to Text on IOS: Siri is the built in tool.
- Text to Speech (TTS or Screen Reader): On IOS | On Android | School Databases - some of them will read text to you and even highlight words. | Natural Reader on your computer.
- Speech Recording: Sometimes we just need to get our ideas out of our brains as quickly as possible. So maybe it is not adapting from one format to another but audio recording is taking ideas and changing them to a new format (MP3). Audacity | Vocaroo | Recorder Plus for IOS | Voice Recorder for Android
|Google Document|
Tool Review>
|Sandbox|
Do later>
- Choose your research topic. Start taking notes using a digital tool like Google Docs or a word processing program like Word or Pages.
- Add the adaptation tools to your PLS chart.
- If you find any tools that help you adapt information, please add their names and links to them in the Padlet board.
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