'Kamp Activities'
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.
May 6th, 2008
While the students in the classroom were busy scanning their textbooks, Mitchell and Walter quietly sneaked out to the adjacent room to do their video demonstration on making text boxes and audio files.
Q: How did that go?
W: It was kinda neat.
M: Not bad.
Q: Would you like to do this kind of thing more often?
W: I wouldn’t mind.
M: Um… I’d prefer not.
Q: So does demonstrating something help you know it better?
W: You mean does demonstrating better help you better understand the subject… Well no and yes. I knew the software, but still managed to blunder the first take. The second take was better though. I guess demonstrating does kinda help you understand the topic better.
May 6th, 2008
Day 2 started with some muffins and juice to fuel the brain! The students are already quite comfortable with each other and are getting along nicely. Dino (above) mentioned that he had a great day yesterday, and enjoyed that Kamp was a break from his regular school routine. When the camp started, students recapped what they had learned in Day 1. They mentioned, grabbing the text from the internet and making them into audio files, customising the toolbars, and making vocabulary lists and so on. In Day 1, they generally approached Kurzweil 3000 as a writing tool. Today they will explore more of the reading tools that Kurzweil has to offer.
May 6th, 2008
At the end of Day 1, it was the students’ turn to give the adults a grade on their knowledge of Kurzweil. Each student gave an adult helper questions or tasks to perform in Kurzweil. Heads were shaking and nodding as teachers gave their final answers. Some students were lenient - gaving hints and allowing the helpers to arm themselves with cheat sheats
Here’s Walter giving his adult helper a B- on her test – a pretty good score considering she had little time to use the computer herself (and Walter asked very tough questions!).
May 5th, 2008
The students are grouped into teams to create demonstrations for tomorrow. Here you will see them preparing and discussing.
Danica, Adriana, and Lauren are working on Creating a vocabulary list. The girls chose an Animal theme for their list.
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May 5th, 2008
Both Windows and Mac users are harmoniously co-existing in the same space. To the left is the Kurzweil demonstration on Windows and to the right is the MAC platform.
After lunch the students dove into topics of audio output and zone editing.
May 5th, 2008
Getting ready to enjoy lunch by the Fraser River…
May 5th, 2008
Congratulations to all Kurzweil Kamp Participants.
We recognize all your hard work – congratulations to everyone who earned badges for Helping, Listening, Learning and Contributing!
April 29th, 2008
After a long day of work, it was time to take a break and play KURZWEIL JEOPARDY. Below is an entry written by CHAZZ, as he recounts the event. (Read below)
“After 5 rounds, the score was tied at 150. It was the adult’s side’s turn to play. They shot a fastball by choosing a Scanning question for 10 points. The question was a True/False question. It was “It is possible to delete a pagefrom numerous pages in Kurzweil without closing it. (True/False?) They answered False, and got it correct.
It was our turn to choose, so we chose Highlights for 20
After we heard the question, our team went into a huge panic. The clock was ticking… and then we finally decided. Through a random pick of colors, we chose Gray and Orange, and we got it right! The score turned out to be 170-160 for the kids! ”
Chazz.
April 29th, 2008
Right before lunch the group was given an assignment to utilize many of the things they have learned. For this assignment Jonathan chose to learn about Dinosaurs. On his document he added sticky notes, footnotes, voice notes, bubble notes and more.
Jonathon was eager to show me some of the new things that he had learned. The task bar at the bottom was a neat future and he especially likes how he can drag text from the internet and drop it into the Kurzweil 3000 taskbar to read the text aloud.
April 29th, 2008
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