Digital Voice Recorders can be a powerful assistive tool. They can be used to support students who have difficulty with note taking, recalling instructions or processing information texts. When matching technologies to individual students there should also be consideration to their learning preferences. In this podcast, Dr Mel Levine outlines one example of how a student used voice recordings to tap in to her learning strengths. The full podcast can be found at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2006/1679087.htm
This is a test pod cast to investigate the use of Read and Write Gold to convert a text file in to an audio file. In this case, the body of text was selected from a web site outlining the features of a new assistive software program called Audio Notetaker. Feedback on the quality of this automated audio file would be appreciated.