How you customize your toolbars can greatly affect your efficiency and productivity with Kurzweil. Here are the important items for Mitchell’s Reading Toolbar:
New, Open, Bookmarks, Previous Page, Next Page, Previous Sentence, Read, Next Sentence
Mitchell has another set of toolbars for Writing. On his writing toolbar he chooses these items: New, Open, Go to the Web, Bookmarks, Toggle Word Predictions, Spell Check, Previous Page, Read. Mitchell tells me that since he has difficulty with spelling, the spell check is essential for him. Also he likes to hear Kurzweil spell the word out for him.
May 5th, 2008
Students are learning how to make their own customized toolbar. Here Travis is saving his custom toolbar. Travis pretty much likes the default set up of the program, but has made a few tweaks to make it even better. For his Reading toolbar he added “fill in the blanks”, and added the “spell check” next to the definition tool item.
Travis’s top 3 Toolbar item are the Definition feature, Voice Reading and the Sticky Notes.
Kursten has never made a customized toolbar, and really loves this feature. For a customized reading toolbar Kursten says she must have next page, prev page, next sentence and previous sentence, but what she loves most is the Lookup feature on the toolbar.
Hayden’s favorite item on the toolbar is the “spell check” function. Hayden and his helper are working together to create his customized toolbar.
Chazz (below) likes to keep his custom Kurzweil toolbar as clean and simple as possible. He removes everything from the toolbar and rebuilds it from scratch. Items like Synonyms, Choice of Voice and font choices are removed. By removing the unnecessary items, he has more room to display the icons larger.
April 29th, 2008
