| Supported eText: Articles
Electronic Books: Reading and Studying with Supportive Resources
This excellent article by Lynne Anderson-Inman (1999) presents state-of-the-art information on electronic texts. It includes a definition, the purpose, advantages and disadvantages, the types of embedded resources, and evaluating and selecting electronic texts.
www.readingonline.org/electronic/
elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/ebook/index.html
Reading on the Web: Making the Most of Digital Text
This article presents the most recent description of the types of supportive resources that can be embedded in or linked to electronic text. Lynne Anderson-Inman lists specific sites that offer digital texts with supports such as a built in dictionary, background information, video illustrations, and demonstrations.
cate.uoregon.edu/pdf/AndersonInman_WSRA_JOURNAL.pdf
Text-to-Speech Software for Helping Struggling Readers
This article which appears in Reading Online (2005), by Ernest Balajthy,
provides an overview of
text-to-speech (TTS) software, summarizing the research on the various benefits of TTS for struggling readers, and describes the different kinds of TTS software available. Suggestions are also provided for implementing TTS in the classroom.
www.readingonline.org/articles/
art_index.asp?HREF=balajthy2/index.html
IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning Applications: Primer on Accessibility
This White Paper by the IMS Global Learning Consortium,Inc. (2005) examines the challenges that exist in online education for individuals with disabilities, and provides guidelines and a framework
containing solutions, opportunities, strategies for implementation, and areas that have been identified for further development and additional need for innovation.
www.imsglobal.org/accessibility/accessiblevers/sec2.html NCSeT's Sample Reference List
The National Center for Supported eText (NCSeT) provides an extensive reference list to literature surrounding supported electronic text.
cate.uoregon.edu/set-ref-sample.html
The Enhanced Reading Experience Through DAISY Books
This paper by William Jolley, Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium, which appeared in the Forum on Library Services for People with Disabilities (2002), describes the
DAISY Standard for Digital Accessible Documents, the only open specification for navigating and accessing multimedia documents by people who are blind or print disabled.
www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/meetings/
disabilities/daisy.html#top
Jumping off the Page: Content Area Curriculum for the Internet Age
This article, which appeared in Reading Online, was part of
the November 2001 themed issue on struggling readers. In the article, authors Bart Pisha and Peggy Coyne of CAST describe
a completed study which produced an exemplar of an online content area textbook that used contemporary multimedia technology to meet the needs of diverse learners. Funded by the
U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs, OSERS, the project refined a software tool to read digital text aloud while simultaneously highlighting the words being read.
www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?
HREF=/articles/pisha/index.html
Text Transformations
This paper,
by Nicole Strangman and Tracey Hall of CAST's
National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (2003), introduces and examines
a set of curriculum enhancements, called "text transformations" that
help students to overcome curriculum barriers that impede access to, participation, and progress within the general curriculum.
The article includes an extensive list of links to learn more about text transformations.
www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_textrans.html Learning from Text
In this article, by D. Edyburn, which appeared in Special Education Technology Practice (2003), the author examines key issues associated with the disconnect between the skills that students with disabilities bring to the general education classroom and the expectations deeply rooted in learning from text instructional models.
www.uwm.edu/~edyburn/LearningfromText.pdf Reading Online
This is the electronic journal of the International Reading Association. It offers hundreds of articles on a range of topics in reading education, focusing on using technology as a tool.
www.readingonline.org/
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