Emerging technology
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Discussion - blackboard
DAISY electronic books offer the potential for more effective and efficient reading. Options include:
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easy navigation and searching for text
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the ability to listen to a book while having the text on the screen
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listening to a book while reading the book via a refreshable Braille display
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listening to a book on a special player
The Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Specification is the result of a worldwide collaboration of talking book libraries, and was ratified by the American National Standards Institute in March 2002.
For more information:
DAISY Consortium
According to their web site:
Our vision is that all published information is available to people with print disabilities, at the same time and at no greater cost, in an accessible, feature-rich, navigable format.
These scanners adhere to a whiteboard, and make an electronic file of what is written or drawn on the board. This has obvious potential for online learning. The possibilities for students with a disability are yet to be fully explored. It is possible that a person who cannot physically take notes in class can be provided with print-outs of teachers’ notes and illustrations. The device is portable, therefore having an advantage over electronic whiteboards. The software supporting the device can be used for hand-writing recognition, making it easier to convert notes to electronic text.
Teaching with voice recognition speech-to-text technology
An international consortium including the University of Sunshine Coast is researching technology captures the speech of a teacher or trainer, and saves it as electronic text and electronic audio files. The potential of this is yet to be tested for learners with a disability.
Background to this project can be found at http://www.liberatedlearning.com/
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