Websites and apps that might be useful to students with dyslexia

A quick tour through the best websites and apps to help students plan their time, organise their resources and streamline their learning

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Contact details: hasties@regents.ac.uk Links from today: http://

padlet.com/wall/6kyb3zkbs1 or http://tinyurl.com/tott16

Link to my own Pearltree (many links) http://www.pearltrees.com/susanhastie or http://pear.ly/bouNj

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What will we be looking at:

Tools for Planning Mind maps Tools for Research Organisation Screen Readers and Sound Files

Tools for Planning

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Wunderlist Easy and simple way to list tasks Can be synced over multiple smart devices Can be shared with multiple users Includes a ‘due-date’ function and recurring

reminders

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Kanban Boards Can be analogue or digital Useful to track the progress of individual

components of a larger project Can also be used to track individuals work as

part of a group project Choice of purely web based service or

synced across smart devices

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OneNote Available on all PCs across campus Flexible way of planning – can include

images, drawings, maps, graphs etc. Works like a notebook, different tabs for

different sections Can be synced with smart devices

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Tools forMind Mapping

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Inspiration Available on all PCs on campus Can be used to create a variety of diagrams Quick way to create Mind Maps using the

‘RapidFire’ feature Can include images and hyperlinks Limited choice of file types

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Bubbl.us Available online at https://bubbl.us/ Free membership allows users to keep up to

five mind maps at a time Simple parent/child node structure Mind maps can be saved as image files

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Popplet Available online at http://popplet.com/ Can include images, hyperlinks, video,

Google maps and other materials One diagram can be shared between

multiple users Mind maps can be saved as image files

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Tools for Research

Organisation

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Pocket Allows you to save articles to read later and

offline on your smart device Audio option available and also works with

SoundGecko Articles can be shared between users Videos and images can also be saved

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Evernote Suite of applications surrounding ‘virtual

notebooks’ Syncs across devices Useful add-on modules, such as ‘Clearly’

which remove unnecessary ‘visual noise’ from webpages

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Pearltrees Web based ‘bookmarking’ application Also syncs with smart devices Allows links to be ‘grouped’ rather than listed Links can also be searched and shared

between users Compatible with Internet Explorer

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Screen Readers

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Adobe Read-Out-Loud In Adobe Reader under the ‘View’ menu Reads out PDFs with a choice of voices Free to download (as part of Adobe Reader) Voice quality can be rather robotic Good starting point if you’re considering

screen reader software

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Read & Write Gold Available on all PCs across campus Read & Write Gold has two screen readers, one

for general text and ‘Screen Shot Reader’ for text within images

It works best with Word documents and PDFs

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Sound Gecko Turn webpages and online articles into

sound files Works both as a website and an app and

syncs articles between the two Users can also subscribe to RSS feeds, such

as The Wall Street Journal

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