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Welcome! Below are a series of resources about using digital tools and platforms. This could serve as a great resource for starting your journey in digital learning. As always, we learn best by doing! "Push buttons!" We promise you won't break it! This tool works within all Google Products and Schoology!

Below is the google slide presentation that has been used and is routinely updated. It goes through every tool within GRW. You are welcome to share this link with families and students if it helps you.

Accommodations and GRW Equivalent

GRW and Student Accommodations

In our ever changing world of Remote, Distance, and Hybrid/Blended Learning, it may be helpful to know that GRW is able to support many accommodations! Here is a cross reference and menu of "common" acccommodations and brief videos and resources for each one!

2019 GRW/MS Presentation

This google slide will take you through each step, how to log in and ALL of the tools on the GRW toolbar. Feel free to click ahead to meet your needs. The videos on the GRW page will also demonstrate these tools.

Google Read and Write

  • Google Read and Write has accessibility tools that are updated about twice a year.

  • GRW also works on phones and IPADS! Click here for a link to the app!

  • Not sure where to start with some students and the accessibility features? Start here! Have a student in mind and click on what you believe they would benefit from and the "Tool Matcher" will guide you to specific tools to start with! Click here for Tool Matcher

  • Works wonderfully with Google Classroom and Schoology


Teachers, don't forget about our Special Education Curriclum resources! Within the shared google drive are tech practice lessons (less than 15 minutes) for each tool available to your students. Access them today and share with your students for immediate applications of the tools.

Premade lessons for:
Google Read and Write
Equatio
Bookshare

There are elementary and secondary versions to cater to your students preferences and ability level.

Google Read and Write PDF Reader - Student Practice

This is an example student led lesson demonstrating using the PDF Reader (now orbitnote)

E Learning with GSuite and Chromebooks Video

This video is brought to you by Google for Education. It features how to use chromebooks and their products for instruction. If you are new to e-learning and digital platforms, this has a lot of information that is easy to quickly apply for beginners.

Westerville City Student & Parent Guide to Read&Write for Google Chrome - Key Tools for Basic Usage

GRW Visual Guide for Parents/Students

Visual and explanation for GRW toolbar icons

Texthelp Webinar for Remote Learning

This is a more in-depth demonstration on how our digital tools can support remote or e-learning.

Introducing Snapverter!

This tool is available to all K-12 teachers to make your documents OCR compatible. Using this tool with GRW, you will no longer see those "weird" errors that sometimes may cause the document to be unreadable.

Equatio

This is "google read and write" for Math!

This tool is fantastic to support math accommodations and providing supports for all learners either at home or school.

This video is a brief 15 minute overview from Texthelp, the developers of Google Read and Write.

Don't have the extension? Click here to add it to your account.

Need more demonstrations about Equatio? Check out their you tube channel.

From TextHelp YouTube Channel

Equatio works in Google Forms! This can be a great way to assess students automatically and the tool allows them to use all the tools within GRW and Equatio.

Equatio and the Math Workspace

This tool allows teachers to make assignments, create assignments and provide students with feedback.

Westerville City Student & Parent Guide to EquatIO - Key Tools for Basic Usage

Equatio Visual Guide for Parents/Students

This is a visual breakdown of the tool bar, descriptions and links to view videos provided by Texthelp, the developer of Google Read and Write and Equatio.


Creating Quizzes Using Equatio in Schoology

Courtesy of Text Help

Creating Assignments Using Equatio In Schoology

Courtesy of Texhelp

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