Future of Education » reading http://futureofeducation.edublogs.org Where are we going??? Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:34:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 15 Minute Tech Training–Make your Computer Read to You http://futureofeducation.edublogs.org/2009/01/07/15-minute-tech-training-make-your-computer-read-to-you/ http://futureofeducation.edublogs.org/2009/01/07/15-minute-tech-training-make-your-computer-read-to-you/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:07:44 +0000 Toby Fischer http://futureofeducation.edublogs.org/?p=40 Every once in a while I put together short training. They are hands on, quick, easy learning events. Yesterday I did one on making your computer read a Microsoft Word document back to you.

Why would a teacher want to have a student do this? Here are few reasons:

  1. Find mistakes in their writing. I hate when my porpoise doesn’t have a purpose in my writing.
  2. Learn to edit…you write and make mistakes, let them listen and find the mistakes
  3. Share your ideas by adding a comment

Click here to learn

(This tutorial was made for Word 04′ on the mac. You can do this with other versions of Word, but the steps may be a little different.)

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