Rewordify.

com

Product Information
What: Rewordify.com gives people a new way
to read more, understand more, and learn
more words.
It gives teachers more time to teach. It
provides actionable student learning data that
informs effective instructional decisions. It
fosters differentiation easily. It turns people
who avoid reading into more-confident,
independent learners.
Its easy and safe to use, it works now on any
device, and its completely free.

Pros:
Free
Easy to use
Allows for complex text to be
simplified.

Cons:
Requires technology
Requires the student to have digital
literacy skills.

Review:
Rewordify.com is a great tool that allows teachers/students to cognitively rescale text to meet
the needs of the student. Once the text is rescaled it provides an interactive text, which allows
the students to click on the words to get definitions. Students find it easy to use find the
interactive text helpful.






How to Use:
1. Select digital text that will be used for class.
2. Have student open text.
3. Have student open a browser with rewordify.com.
4. Have student highlight and copy text.
a. Ex:

5. Have student paste text into rewordify.com.

a. Ex:

6. Have student click Rewordify Text

7. Student will now have a simplified interactive text.

8. To test comprehension the teacher can print activities/quizzes generated by
rewordify.com

Data Tracking:

Student Name:

Article Comprehension*
without Rewordify
Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

Article 4

Article 5

*Comprehension is defined and measured by the teacher

Article Comprehension*
with Rewordify


http://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/#

Product Information
What: The Translate and Speak service by
ImTranslator is a full functioning text-to-
speech system with translation capabilities
that translates texts from 52 languages into
10 voice supported languages. This absolutely
unique tool is smart enough to detect the
language of the text submitted for translation,
translate into voice, modify the speed of the
voice, and even create an audio link to send a
voiced message. Everything can be done in a
single click.

Pros:
Free
Easy to use
Allows for any text to be translated
into 10 voice supported languages.
Text to speech services.

Cons:
Requires technology
Requires the student to have digital
literacy skills.
Long URL
Difficult interface to initially use.
Translation is not always 100%
accurate.

Review:
imTranslator is a great tool to use with students who are ESL and struggle understanding text
in English. Once the student learns how to use the interface they can use it independently and
take autonomy over their learning.

How to Use:
1. Select digital text that will be used for class.
2. Have student open text.
3. Have student open a browser with http://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/#
4. Have student highlight and copy text.
a. Ex:

5. Have student copy text into imTranslator

6. Have student change the translation to the desired language.

7. Have Student click the speaker button to hear translation and see translated text.

Do the following:
make sure that the Translate check mark box is ON
choose the target language for translation
adjust the speed of the voice
enter text or copy and paste text into the text window
press the Translate & Speak button

Data Tracking:

Student Name:

Article Comprehension*
without imTranslator
Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

Article 4

Article 5

*Comprehension is defined and measured by the teacher

Article Comprehension*
with imTranslator


Screencast-O-Matic

Product Information
What: Screencast-O-Matic is a screen capture software
that can be used to create video from your screen (i.e.
short lectures or course tours).

Pros:
Free
Easy to use
Allows for any video to be uploaded to Youtube.
Renduring and video upload is quick.

Cons:
Requires technology
Requires the teacher to have digital literacy
skills.
Can be confusing the first couple times used.
15 minute video length maximum.
Does not work with Chrome OS

Review:
Screencast-O-Matic can be used to create video instructions or video lectures and enables the
students the ability pause or revisit the video after they watch it.

How to Use: Without downloading it to your computer.

1. To get started, go to www.screencast-o-matic.com.
2. Click Start Recording. If you are using FireFox and experience problems, you may wish
to try using Internet Explorer with Screencast-o-matic.



3. If you get this bar at the top of your browser, click Run this time, or Always run on
this site if you plan to use Screen-cast-o-matic a lot.

4. You should get a dotted box on your screen that you can adjust to fit the area you want
to record. Before you start recording, look to the bottom of the box at the controls
available to you. You will see a red record button (dont click it yet), and then a
microphone button. If you click this, you can choose your audio source. Next to the
audio button you will see a volume control button. Not all microphones allow for
volume control, but if yours does you can set that there. Next to volume control, you will
see some dimension presets. You can either use these, or you can set your own by
clicking and dragging the small boxes around the area. Next to the dimensions, you will
see a webcam option. There you can choose to use webcam (and which source), or to
turn it off. The last button is an X. It closes the program.



5. When you are ready, click the record button to start your video. Screencast-o-matic will
count down from 3 and then start recording. At the bottom of the screen, you will see a
few options while recording. You can pause, restart, or stop (done). You also see the
volume level and timer at the bottom. Take note that the limit on a Screencast-o-matic
video is 15 minutes.

6. When you are finished (click done), you will have a preview window come up. Here
you can watch the video by clicking the play button in the bottom left corner of the
window.

7. You can publish to YouTube. To publish to YouTube, click that link. NOTE: You need a
Google Account to upload to YouTube.



8. Let it load, then fill out the form provided. Give it a title and description, then give it
some tags (these are for if you want your video to be searchable. If you dont want that,
leave this blank.) Give it a category, and choose your privacy setting (because unlisted
is a Pro feature, you can set this to anything and then log into YouTube later on your
account to change it to unlisted, if so desired.) If you have a captions file, you can also
upload that here.

9. Choose your advanced option, and then click Add Account to add your YouTube
account.
10. Click Launch web browser.

11. When the browser opens, log into your Google account and then click Allow Access.

12. Click Continue.
13. Then click Upload to YouTube and let it load. When it finishes you can click the link
provided to see the video on YouTube.

Data Tracking:

Student Name:

Student score on
assessment without video
instructions lecture.

Assessment 1
Assessment 2
Assessment 3
Assessment 4
Assessment 5

Student score on
assessment with video
instructions and lecture.

Read&Write for Google - Chrome Web Store

Product Information
What:
Boost reading and writing confidence. Offer support
for Google Docs/web to students with learning
difficulties, dyslexia or ELL/ESL.
Boost reading and writing confidence. Offer support
for Google Docs/web to students with learning
difficulties, dyslexia or ELL/ESL. Read&Write for
Google offers a range of powerful support tools to
help students gain confidence with reading and
writing, including:
Hear words, passages, or whole documents read
aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
See the meaning of words explained with text and
picture dictionaries
Hear text translated into other languages
Get suggestions for the current or next word as you
type
Turn words into text as you speak
Highlight text in documents or the web and collect
for use in other documents
Simplify and summarize text on web pages
Read&Write for Google is a user-friendly chrome
extension for use with PCs, Macs and Chromebooks. It
works with web pages and common file types in
Google Drive, including: - Google Docs - PDF - ePub -
Kes

Pros:
Easy to use
Allows students to annotate and interact with
digital text.
Works with multiple document types.

Cons:
Requires technology
Requires the teacher/student to have digital
literacy skills.
Requires the student to use chrome browser.
Requires the school to buy licenses for the
students to use.

Review:
Read and Write for Google combines multiple tools into one nicely organized tool bar. All of the
tools in the toolbar are available free online, but they require multiple programs. The
functionality of the toolbar is amazing, but does cost money for each student that uses it. The
toolbar can be used to enhance student comprehension and their ability to interact with digital
text.

How to Use:
To install
1. Open Chrome Browser
2. Go to Chrome Web Store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/read%20and%20write?hl=en-US

3. Search for Read and Write and add the extension.

To Use:
1. Have student open the document that will be used during the class.
2. The Read and Write Extension will automatically open.

3. Student will be able to use a wide variety of tools. Examples:
Highlighting

Text-to-Speech





Dictionary

Data Tracking:

Student Name:

Article Comprehension*
without Read and Write
for Google
Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

Article 4

Article 5

*Comprehension is defined and measured by the teacher

Article Comprehension*
with Read and Write for
Google