Today, for the first time since embarking on this course, I feel in charge and on pace. While I was a Literacy Support Teacher in a Junior High, I received training on using Kurzweil, and although I have not used the program much in the high school at which I am currently employed, I retained most of the information. However, the bubble notes were new to me, and I find this a truly exciting option in terms of creating assessments directly within the document. I did not know one could change the dictionary and create word lists, and I can see how this feature would now be much more accessible to a number of students. Finally, I only learned one could write in the program after watching the video I posted a couple of days ago, and the tutorial provided positive and negative aspects of this option (for example, the poor word prediction feature).
On a positive note, I successfully downloaded Kurzweil (it only took as many tries as the version number) and am excited to try it out in class tomorrow.
Today I downloaded an app called Chirp! Canada. I can choose my specific location (Maritimes) and a list of common birds appears, with their names and a clear pictures. I can click on the picture and hear upwards of forty seconds of recorded bird calls made by that particular species. This is not exactly what I was looking for, but it's the closest app I could find, as many other programs were for the UK and other countries.
Finally, I hope you enjoy the changes I made to my page: an option to search my Blog, a poll (be sure to answer the survey), and I updated my profile. The picture I chose is me sandboarding in Namibia a few years ago.
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