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<\/a>Reading text online is just as challenging as reading a book if your students struggle with reading. \u00a0Try\u00a0Voice Dream Reader Lite<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>. \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 version.]<\/p>\nFor those of you with access to iPads, you might wish to consider using the following free apps. Reading text online is just as challenging as reading a book if your students struggle with reading. \u00a0Try\u00a0Voice Dream Reader Lite. \u00a0This handy app reads online webpages, documents, pdf, text, powerpoint, ebooks, Pocket, using text- to -speech…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,74,14],"tags":[76,22,28,30,80,34,47,81,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/files\/2012\/11\/app_paperportnotes-150x150.jpg\" "\\"app_paperportnotes\\"")
<\/a>Paperport Notes<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> is “digital notetaking” gone crazy. \u00a0Text can be written with a keyboard, stylus or by voice. \u00a0The speech-to-text is amazingly accurate, even with low level background noise. \u00a0[The ipad must be connected to wireless for this feature to work.] \u00a0As if this wasn\u2019t enough, it \u00a0can also \u00a0import PDF, PowerPoint and image files for annotation. \u00a0Add your sticky notes and scribbles to increase understanding. Options for sharing files are email, pdf, as well as exporting to Dropbox, Google Docs, and Box. \u00a0All a teacher needs is to create a general Dropbox, Box… account and all your students upload to it. \u00a0The integrated ability of this app is worth checking out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"