Reaching All Learners With Leopard

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1 Reaching All Learners With Leopard

2 Diverse Learners Learning disabilities English Language barriers Emotional, behavior problems Lack of interest or engagement Sensory and physical disabilities

3 Teaching Every Child in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning Identifying and removing barriers Provide multiple pathways for expression Represent information in multiple formats and media Provide multiple ways to engage students

4 Universal Access for All

5 Setting Up For Universal Access Choose Apple Menu > system preferences or click the system preferences icon in the dock.

7 VoiceOver Utility

8 Visual Needs VoiceOver, Zoom, Display VoiceOver Turn on the Spoken Interface for Mac OS X. Zoom Make the screen image appear larger For greater screen contrast, switch the screen to black and white or grayscale

9 Listen to a 2nd grader explain how to use Voice Over

10 Voice Over Captioning

11 To use VoiceOver captioning 1. In System Preferences, click Universal Access, then click Seeing. 2. ClickOpen VoiceOver Utility.

12 3. Click Speech and select Mute Speech.

13 4. Click Navigation and select VoiceOver cursor follows mouse cursor.

14 5. Click Visuals, click the Caption Panel button, then select Show caption panel. (You can adjust the font size, number of rows, and transparency of the Caption panel here too.) Press Command-F5 to turn VoiceOver captioning on and off.

15 Literacy and Learning Needs Text to Speech Text-to-speech synthesis: For hearing the contents of web pages and other documents read aloud Display Adjustment: For switching the display to white text on a black background to enhance readability Services command: For creating sticky notes, summarizing text, and hearing text read aloud

16 Text to Speech System Voice & Talking alerts Voice Voice choices and speaking rate Talking Alerts Have computer alerts spoken VoiceOver Settings Open VoiceOver Utility to configure Text to Speech Speak selected text when the key is pressed Command-Option-S

17 Macy Uses Voice Recognition

18 Listen to Macy explain how to use this feature. Speakable Items

19 Voice Recognition and Transcription Dylan demonstrates: A student success story!

20 TextEdit TextEdit is a versatile word-processing application including many features, which are highly desirable for students with learning or cognitive disabilities.

21 Speech Sound Universal Access Keyboard & Mouse International

22 Applications in Mac OSX Leopard Support Learning

23 Using Quicktime Pro for Closed Caption Sample movie without captions

24 Adding Captions to Video with QuickTime Pro (pg.1 of 2) QuickTime Pro is a versatile application for capturing and editing video and converting video and audio files to a wide variety of formats and sizes. The captioning feature of QuickTime Pro enables you and your students to add text to any video. To add captions to a video, you type the caption text into a TextEdit document (or another word-processing document), including the timecode for the captions. At the top of the document, youʼll need to type the text that follows, which sets up the captions to be combined with the video. (You may need to revise the text descriptor for width if your movie is a different width than 320, and you may want to choose a different font for the captions instead of Lucida Grande.) {QTtext} {font:lucida Grande} {plain} {size:10} {justify:center} {backcolor:0, 0, 0} {timescale:30} {width:320} {height:36} {timestamps:absolute} {language:0} The text for the captions then follows in the text file and includes the timecode and the captions, as in this example: [00:00:00] OK people, time to rock and roll. Your stocks are up. Your stocks are down. [00:00:04.10] You have 5 s. The first one is from Alexandar. [00:00:07.22] Rise and shine, short one. Kung fu today. [00:00:10.05] Thanks Sven. [00:00:10.84] OK, just to recap our schedules. [00:00:14.00] Les called. Thanks Sven. [00:00:15.45] Forecast says cold today so bundle up. [00:00:18.04] Let's move along. Let's rock and ross. [00:00:21.05] If you can't get a Sven in 2008, get one of these exclusive AT&T smart phones. It will keep you and your family organized. Just $ Only from AT&T. [00:00:30.04]

25 Adding Captions to Video with QuickTime Pro (pg.2 of 2) Once you have the captions file completed, save the file as a text-only document. (In TextEdit, choose Format > Make Plain Text.) To add captions to your video: Note: These steps are for a movie that is 320 x 240 pixels. 1. In QuickTime Pro, open the movie that will have the captions added. 2. In QuickTime Pro, choose File > Open File. 3. Select and open the text file that you prepared. 4. Choose Edit > Select All. 5. Choose Edit > Copy. 6. Click the QuickTime.mov file to bring it to the front. 7. Choose Edit > Select All. 8. Choose Edit > Add to Selection and Scale. 9. Choose Window > Show Movie Properties. 10. Scroll down and select Text Track in the list of Movie attributes. 11. Click the Visual Settings button. 12. Enter 0 as the offset value and 320 as the Y offset value to move the text track to the bottom of the movie. Press Return. Note: For movies that are of a different size than 320 x 240, you can adjust this Y offset value and the movie will update to show the result until you reach the correct value. 14. Choose File > Save As. 15. Save the file as a self-contained movie. With these steps and QuickTime Pro, you can make student-created movies fully accessible to students with hearing impairments.

26 Sample movie with captions added.

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