Review

= Fall 2011 Webinar Resources =

= = = = = = = = = August 2011 Kurzweil 3000 Review Session =

> **Logging in and updating Kurzweil 3000 to v12.07:**
 * Kurzweil 3000 Tips to Start out the 2011-2012 School Year**
 * 1) Start the year off assigning students a writing prompt.
 * 2) Virtually Print Word and PDF tests and assignments so students can read along with Kurzweil - you don't have to read tests or assignments again! Students will develop a sense of independence.
 * 3) Students who have Internet assignments should log into Kurzweil - Click on the Read the Web icon and use the K3000 read features to listen to their assignments. Or they can copy and paste text from a Web page into a K3000 Document and read their article.
 * 4) Train parent volunteers or high school students how to scan in books and edit the text to make sure text scanned in correctly.
 * 5) Have students watch the How To Movies built into Kurzweil - Help - How to Movies
 * 6) There is a Classics Folder on the DVD with 1,400 Classics in digital format that you can assign to your students reading the Classics.
 * 7) If parents have a computer and an Internet connection they can install Kurzweil on the computer and their son/daughter will have access to their assignments at home. You can let them borrow a DVD or they can down load a copy of Kurzweil at: Install Kurzweil 3000 v12 Web License at school and home:[| kurzweiledu.com/installv12]
 * 1) Open Kurzweil 3000
 * 2) Log in using your login: **ideafirstname** and password: **idealastname**: ideadeb ideabarrows - Contact Deb if you need help logging in: deborah.barrows@cambiumtech.com
 * 3) Once you've logged in, please update Kurzweil 3000 to the newest version - Click on **Online** on the Menubar and select **Update** and then a window will pop-up and click in the box before 12.07 update and the download will start automatically.
 * 4) After the update is downloaded, it will ask you to restart Kurzweil.

More directions soon...
 * Adding and deleting students from your class: Naming Convention:**
 * Login: ideafirstname Password: idealastname add 01, 02 if needed.**
 * 1) Log into Kurzweil, click on.. this will open a web browser (Internet Explorer or Safari) and you'll be on VPORT's site.

Other topics: Customize Menubars Preferences Virtually Print Save files to VPort Library so other teachers and students have access to the files Scanning Bookshare.org - logging in and downloading books All staff and students can install Kurzweil 3000 at home [|Test samples] to download -