RWG Notes
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
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| Assistive technology | • Technology that is available to assist individuals to participate in activities
As independently as possible
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| What is Read & Write Gold | • Assistive technology and study skills software used at Lawrence School
• Started by an Irish company,
Texthelp Systems
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| TextHelp Button & Anchor | -Toolbar Selection
-Toolbar colors, options
-General Options
-Video Tutorials
-Closing RWG
-Unlocking toolbar from current location
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| Spellchecker Tool | -Phonetic spell check tool
o Phonetic = spelled like it sounds
• Can listen to and read each word with Reading Tools
• Can listen to and read each definition to make a better choice during spell checking
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| Word Prediction Tool | • Similar to T9/text prediction on cell phones
• Predicts the word you want to type
Predicts words phonetically (i.e. ‘foto’ will list
‘photo’ on the list
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| Dictionary Tool |
• Select a word then click the dictionary icon to see a definition of the word
• You can listen to the definitions with the Play button on the Reading tool
• Clicking on a definition will show you
Possible related words like a thesaurus
adults
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| Picture Dictionary Tool | • Select a word then click on the Picture Dictionary icon to see a
Visual representation of the word in the corner of your screen
• You can double click on any picture to add it to your Word document
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| Word Wizard | • The Word Wizard takes you on a Tour of a specific word
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| Sounds Like and Confusable Words Tool |
• aka The Ears or The Triplets
(Ms. Garza’s name for this tool)
• great proofreader for words often confused (homophones, homonyms,antonyms, synonyms, common typo errors and other confusable words)
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| Verb Checker | • The Verb Checker is a little tool to allow you to see how a verb should be Conjugated
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| Calculator Tool | It is a talking calculator
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| 4 Calculator tools | Standard Calculator
Scientific Calculator
Evaluate In Document
Convert
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| Reading tools/ Text To Speech Tools | Reading tools let your hear digital text
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| Screenshot Reader | • Allows you to read Inaccessible text e.g. locked PDFs
or inaccessible flash and within programs (like MAP tests)
• Click on the tool and then draw a box around what you want to have read to you
listening to new
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| Speechmaker | • Allows you to convert selected text into a sound file such as an MP3
• A wizard will guide you through the conversion process.
• Allows you to create your own audio books
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| Daisy Reader | • Reads Daisy Books (books in specific format for the blind) Anyone with
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| Pronunciation Tutor | Words are pronounced and syllables displayed
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| Scan Tool | • This tool is used to OCR documents (make them readable with Read & Write Gold or
other assistive technology software)
• Determines which parts of a page are letters/numbers vs. picture
OCR: Optical Character Recognition
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| FactFinder Tool | Shortcut to do quick web search directly from RWG toolbar
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| Fact Folder Tool | • A tool to collect information (facts, pictures) from the
internet to create a list of facts/pictures with complete bibliography
• Must use Internet Explorer – does not work in Firefox or Chrome
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| Fact Mapper | Like inspiration, but not reccomended
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| Screen Masking Tool | Aka The ADHD Tool
• helps the user to remain focused on a specific point of computer screen/page
• can choose different options or colors to help stay focused
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| Speech Input | • This tool allows you to easily create documents by dictating into a microphone connected to your computer. Uses Windows Speech Recognition tools (or Dragon if you have Dragon installed on your computer)
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| Translator | • Click this button to open the single word translator, and then select a word to have it
translated.
• ***Note: You must be online to use this feature.
• can choose:
French
Spanish
Italian
German
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| PDF Aloud | • Click this button to launch Adobe Reader.
• Open your PDF document.
• On the PDF Aloud Toolbar, (located in Tools/plugin in Adobe 10, 11 or
later) select ‘click & speak’.
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| Study Skills Tools | • Use the buttons on this toolbar
To highlight and collect sections of text
• use the Collect Highlights tool to collect all highlights into a Word document with bibliography.
Good for collecting facts that must happen immediately vs over time
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| Vocabulary Tool | AKA The Picture Board Tool
• Can be used in conjunction with Study
Skills highlighters or alone
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| Word Cloud Tool | • Used selected text or word banks to create and display a Word cloud/list/word bank for use when writing,filling in worksheets or taking tests
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| Voice Note Tool | Record a voice note and insert it into a Microsoft word document
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Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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