Wrapping Up with Danica and Ian
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May 6th, 2008
Adriana, Danica, Laura: How to make a custom vocabulary list on a Mac
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Ian and Amrinder: How to make your own vocabulary list
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Ian and Amrinder demonstrate creating a custom vocabulary list in Kurzweil 3000 – version 10 for Windows.
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Conner and Dino: How to make an audio file from the internet
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Connor and Dino explain how to copy and paste text from a website and then convert it to an audio file in Kurzweil 3000 – version 10 for Windows.
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Mitchell and Walter: Text boxes and audio files
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Mitchell and Walter demonstrate how to add text boxes to scanned tests or worksheets and how to create audio files in Kurzweil 3000 – version 4 for Macintosh.
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Jeopardy
The class ended with a heated game of Jeopardy. The students earned an easy victory over the adults, with a score of 390 to 270. When Walter knew what OCR meant (Optical Character Recognition), we knew the students were in a prime position to WIN!
The students collaborated to answer all but one question correctly – they certainly know Kurzweil 3000 inside and out!
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Power Projects – Using all the tools
Towards the latter part of Day 2, students worked on their POWER PROJECT – a chance to bring everything they had learned over the last two days together.
Amrinder (above) is finishing his assignment. He was on his last question which required him to make Voice Notes – not the easiest task – so he didn’t mind being interrupted with an interview.
Q: I know you are an Advanced Kurzweil user, so did you learn anything new today?
A: Yes, I learned about Extracting Highlights.
Q: What are Extracting Highlights?
A: You can extract all of the highlights you have in a file and collect them in a new file. You can use this new file as a study sheet.
Q: Is this useful for you?
A: Yes, I can see this being useful for Science and Socials, where I have to memorize important facts.
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Dino and Conner’s Demonstration
Dino and Conner created a video demonstration on how to copy text from the Internet and convert them to audio files. They were eager to talk about the experience.
Conner made this comment: “We had a great time. I wanna do it again.”
Q: Does giving a demonstration help you learn the software better?
A: YES!
Q: So how many takes did you need to make?
A: 2 or 3, but the computer had problems. That’s why we had to do it a few times. Then the camera person had to stop and redo certain parts.
Q: Other than the computer problems, did you work well in front of the camera?
A: (emphatically) YES!
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Bubble Notes, Foot Notes, Highlighter and more
By noon on Day 2, the class has reviewed the entire range of note taking and annotation tools in Kurzweil 3000.
Laura helps by differentiating the various annotation tools….
- The Highlight Tool is for highlighting main ideas of the text. You can use different color highlighters to show more details, such as different topics.
- Sticky Notes help you remember things.
- Bubble notes are notes where you can put questions and answers.
When asked how footnotes are different from other annotations, Laura suggested…
- Footnotes are hidden and you have to click on them to read.
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