FebWebinars12

**Kurzweil 3000 Miami-Dade WebEx Information for Feb/March 2012** You are invited to attend four Kurzweil 3000 online workshop sessions. Kurzweil 3000 is web-based text to speech software that reads aloud any content on the computer to students while each word is highlighted. In April and September of 2011, some of you attended a series of Kurzweil 3000 onsite trainings to learn how to use Kurzweil 3000 to help support your struggling readers.

Cambium Learning Technologies’ Implementation Team had such a great time with Miami-Dade County IDEA Staff that they want to offer more assistance and reminders for using Kurzweil 3000 by providing online 24/7 resources, download Kurzweil 3000, how to videos, handouts, etc. at: http://mdk3000.wikispaces.com/. Also, we are offering free afternoon and early evening online WebEx workshops the next four weeks.

WebEx sessions require a computer connected to the Internet, so you can see Deb Barrows and/or Suzanne Feit’s computer screen. Also, you’ll need a phone or speaker phone, if more than one person is dialing in, to hear what they’re teaching and so you can ask questions.

Watch this short video of Alex, a Middle School student who has a learning disability, talking about how he uses Kurzweil to read digital books and his successes:

http://www.kurzweiledu.com/video-alex-bookshare.html

We realize that your school day schedules are full, so we decided to offer WebEx sessions in the afternoon and early evening to meet the needs of more staff members.

//Wednesday, February 15th, 4:00 pm- 5:00pm or 6:30pm – 7:30pm// **Topic:****Installing Kurzweil 3000 Web License Software, Adding Student Accounts, and Getting Started** You will learn how to install Kurzweil 3000 Web License software, add students to your class in VPORT, review VPORT Student data, and upload Kurzweil 3000 documents to the Universal Library so students have access to files.

//Wednesday, February 22nd, 4:00pm - 5:00pm or 6:30pm – 7:30pm// **Topic:****Using Kurzweil 3000 to Read Web Content, Tests, Documents, and Online Subscription Services** You will learn how to search for curriculum materials online and virtually print those pages to Kurzweil 3000 so students can read the article, highlight important information, and extract that information to create a study guide or Cornell column notes. If you currently have online subscriptions, you’ll learn how to bring in the content into Kurzweil 3000, such as Reading A-Z, Pearson, etc.

//Wednesday, February 29th, 4:00pm - 5:00pm or 6:30pm – 7:30pm// **Topic: Using Kurzweil 3000 for Independent Classroom Assignment Completion** <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">You will learn how to use Kurzweil 3000 to create classroom assignments using your documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, web pages, and books so students can listen, take notes, insert text, answer tests, create study guides, etc. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">You’ll receive step by step directions how to virtually print tests and documents you are going to use with your students and upload to the Universal Library for student access.

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">//Wednesday, March 7th, 6:30pm – 7:30pm// <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">You will learn how to scan and then edit books, tests, and worksheets into Kurzweil 3000 and upload to the Universal Library for student’s access.
 * Topic: Using Kurzweil 3000 to Scan Books, Tests, and Worksheets**

REGISTRATION:** Please reply to deborah.barrows@cambiumtech.com with your name, date, time, title and I’ll send you an invitation <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">//Example: Deb Barrows, Feb. 15, 4:00pm, Installing Kurzweil 3000 Web License Software, Adding Student Accounts, and Getting Started//