[senco-forum] Re: eBooks

From: Ruth Newbury <rmnewbury at ntlworld.com>

You can also look books already in electronic format (scanning whole books
can be time consuming).  Have a look at websites like

 http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

where there are more than 100,000 ebooks you can download free of charge.
They're in text format so you can open them with a wide range of programs,
including those with speech output (like our Read:Outloud).

Jamie

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> From: Ruth Newbury <rmnewbury at ntlworld.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:02:57 +0100
> To: 'Jeremy Beckett' <jeremy.beckett at nottscc.gov.uk>,
> <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Re: eBooks
> 
> In endorse Jeremy's  suggestion of Kurzweil although I used it for a student
> who started the day partially sighted - and ended it often blind.
> 
> What she liked about it most was the speed with which it did everything -
> she was getting a textbook page scanned and being read to her within 10 - 15
> seconds - and she was able to use it in conjunction with another programme
> (whose name I have forgotten) which enabled her to alter the size and
> appearance of what was on the screen too.
> 
> Although it was in school for her - it was the most borrowed piece of
> software b7y my other students - for exactly that reason - you could
> speedily get what you were unable to read.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ruth
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Jeremy Beckett
> Sent: 08 June 2007 12:47
> To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: [senco-forum] Re: eBooks
> 
> 
> Don Johnston special needs do a huge range and it is also worth looking at
> Oxford Trackers from Crick.
> 
> Have you thought about a scanner and a programme like Kurzweil 3000 so that
> she can access the same books as her class mates?
> 
> Jeremy Beckett
> SEN ICT Consultant Teacher
> Inclusion Support Service
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