Students use Text-to-Speech (such as Kurzweil 3000) to:
- Improve decoding and fluency
- Hear text spoken aloud
- Read back their own typing, predict words, and spell check as they are typing
- Strengthen their active reading using the Study Skills Toolbar
Students use Concept/Mind-Mapping (such as XMind) to:
- Generate and develop ideas for the writing process
- Organize thinking
- Create outlines
- Test their memory
- Increase independence
Students use Speech-to-Text (such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred) to:
- Free up cognitive working space
- Eliminate handwriting & spelling problems
- Brainstorm and turn oral language into text
- Produce large amounts of writing
- Spell check documents they created in a different application
- Increase independence
Digital Text Services (DTS) provides Landmark College students with a digital version (Kurzweil and PDF formats) of all their course texts once they purchase the print version.
Digital Text Services:
- Acquires accessible digital formats of primary course texts (texts chosen by instructors) either from the publisher, or by scanning
- Grants student access to digital copies of course texts, with proof of ownership
- Helps students find digital copies of other books
- Helps faculty obtain clean hard copies of chapters and/or articles for course packs
