Successful cataloguing on a memory stick (USB pen drive) with alphabetic folders

Posted on April 21, 2012 by E.A. Draffan

“…the library staff help and give me guidance – don’t sit in silence and suffer! Probably when you find something you just save it, then it takes so long to find it again. I made, on my memory stick, a reader library and I put all my texts in folders in alpahbetical order so I do not have to go through the whole search process again which is more eye strain. I just make up folders with certain headings and then you can go straight there – It is handy that each one has a date so that I can see ones from the previous year.” Microsoft File organization tips: 9 ideas for managing files and folders.

Amber – Nursing

Using Two Screens when Reading, Writing and Revising

Posted on April 21, 2012 by E.A. Draffan

“I like the double screens and I like ATS (Assistive Technology Service room) as it is quiet – the two screens help because you are able to look at two things at the same time rather than flick back and forth having to flip between things. I do not have a good short term memory so to look at things and compare is good otherwise I forget things. I cannot remember what I have just read, so I have the text up on one screen and then make notes on another.”

Sarah – Philosophy and Economics

Excel storing and filtering past exam questions to help with revision

Posted on April 20, 2012 by E.A. Draffan

“Use Excel to look at past exam papers and work out patterns – make Excel spreadsheets to see what has come up – list the questions under each topic and then you can see what keeps coming up and work out the different sections that need revising. This works well with any lists of things you have collected.”

Sarah Philosophy and Economics.

YouTube Video Sort Data in Excel Rows

Microsoft Excel 2007 to 2010 – How to Sort Data – Article with images.

ClaroRead for reading out text.

Posted on April 20, 2012 by E.A. Draffan

“I use ClaroRead to read out my essays so they make sense I don’t use the Claro filter as I have glasses for colour – I have a blue filter. I don’t use my printer very much as it is too expensive – I tend to print double sided but prefer larger fonts.”

YouTube link to the ClaroRead for PC Overview Video

Sarah – Philosophy and Economics.

Adobe PDF to Word for text to speech and annotation

Posted on April 15, 2012 by E.A. Draffan

“Reading is big issue for me – I find it hard to concentrate on the content so I have to scan in documents so I use a program to read them back to help me focus and absorb more information. Quite often I download E-Journals and they are all set up in PDF format. But, when I come to use the software, it is quite hard so then I transfer it to a Word document. It is much more user-friendly.

Basically, I have been used to using the software for TextHelp Read and Write [Gold] (YouTube video) and in that program you can scan the document – you can scan the PDF document and transfer it to a Word document” [This is also possible with ClaroRead (YouTube video)]

Tom – Sports Science BSc Hons

Microsoft Windows Magnifier for viewing Blackboard

Posted on April 6, 2012 by E.A. Draffan

Docked Windows magnifier at 500%

…”you can generally get hold of Windows magnifier if they haven’t locked down computers too much. But there is still a limit. It’s a work-around, but it works OK for me…. Knowing separate web addresses for sites, so I don’t have to use SUSSED [the university portal]., I mean things like “Blackboard is (said the web address), webmail is webmail……(gave web address) – we don’t want the extra frames.”

Hannah – Occupational Therapist

Lexdis 2.0

Accessible technology for learning

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