{"id":2137,"date":"2012-11-19T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2012-11-19T09:24:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T16:24:43","slug":"app-support-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/2012\/11\/app-support-in-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"App Support in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apps come and apps go. \u00a0All of them serve a purpose. \u00a0It is the teacher who makes &#8220;magic&#8221; happen through the lesson experiences. \u00a0Our\u00a0<a title=\"iDevices\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/idevices\" target=\"_blank\">iDevices Blog<\/a>\u00a0is where\u00a0you will see an ongoing vetted list of apps.\u00a0(Click \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0AtnabzKFfJiydFNMdm1NOXRiTHRqWXp2Wm1EZ0V6SHc#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">Apps Collection list<\/a>) \u00a0Please add to the list if you run across an app that you love.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one you may find useful:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voicedream.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 10px white; margin: 5px;\" title=\"app_voicedream\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2012\/11\/app_voicedream-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nReading text online is just as challenging as reading a book if your students struggle with reading. \u00a0Try\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voicedream.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Voice Dream Reader Lite<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0This handy app reads online webpages, documents, pdf, text, powerpoint, ebooks, Pocket, using text- to -speech technology. \u00a0Words are highlighted as they are spoken making this a great app for your readers who have difficulties. \u00a0Articles identified are stored locally so you can read them anytime, making this very useful when you are offline. \u00a0 [Adding additional voices are part of the paid app.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apps come and apps go. \u00a0All of them serve a purpose. \u00a0It is the teacher who makes &#8220;magic&#8221; happen through the lesson experiences. \u00a0Our\u00a0iDevices Blog\u00a0is where\u00a0you will see an ongoing vetted list of apps.\u00a0(Click \u00a0Apps Collection list) \u00a0Please add to the list if you run across an app that you love. Here&#8217;s one you may&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[113,112,92,17],"tags":[3,154,41,47,58,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}