"Teachers who apply these technologies in their classrooms do more than motivate students with the latest cool tool; they prepare students with multiliteracies and for the realities of the technological world." Borsheim et al, 2010
Voicenote II add in for Chrome turns your speech to text quickly and accurately.
Get Voice Note II
Goto : the Chrome webstore
Click on Add to Chrome in the top right corner
To launch VoiceNote Click on the microphone in the URL bar
Select the Language and New Zealand by clicking the world at the bottom
Click the microphone on the right sidebar
Once you have loaded the Voicenote add in either launch straight in or watch this to get started.
Which students in my class might this benefit ? Why?
MS Word on a Mac:
To use this facility with Word for Mac you must first turn on dictation. Once this is done you then simply position the cursor in your document at the point you want the text to appear and start talking.
Choose System preferences > Keyboard, > Dictation.
Turn on Dictation
Google Docs.
Make sure you are working in your chrome browser
Open your google doc
Choose Tools > Voice Typing
Click the Microphone and start recording.
Click the microphone to stop
References
Borsheim, C., Merritt, K., & Reed, D. (2008). Beyond technology for technology's sake: Advancing multiliteracies in the twenty-first century. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 82(2), 87-90.