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=How Can You Use It If You Don't Know It's There= Presented By Penelope I Chambers and ????? on Thursday, October 19, 2006 Posted By Missy Jansen melissa.jansen@sendit.nodak.edu

[|www.microsoft.com/enable] - this link will provide lots of tips and pointers for making the computer more accessible to students.
 * __Closed Captioning__** - The most common places this piece of technology is used are in bed (when others are sleeping), Bars (because it's too noisy to hear the TV), and Gyms (because you can't hear over the machines). It has been identified that children with deaf parents read better, possibly because closed captioning is used. On the computer quicktime player and windows media players have the ability to use closed captioning. This is a tool that can be used to help kids learn to read. They can have the words to read, and hear what is being said to reinforce them.
 * __Finding Text__** - text can be found online at [|www.ipl.org] and [|intersect.uoregon.edu]
 * __Fonts__** - Just a note about fonts, students with learning disabilities read easier with plain black fonts.
 * __The Pointer on the Computer__** - most of the time the pointer is white with just a little black outline. This can be difficult to see, and it is easily changed. Go to the control panel and to mouse settings to change the color to a solid black.
 * __Autosummarize__** - Microsoft Word has the capability to automatically summarize text. This feature can be found under "tools" and it gets rid of all of the "fluff" in text.
 * __Templates__** - you can make templates for forms, tests, etc. by making the form and "saving as" a "document template." Change the type of saving (ex. .jpeg, word document, etc.) in the second box under where you would type the name of the template by changing it to "document template." You can also find free templates on the web such as Jeopardy templates and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
 * __Readability__** - this is found under "tools" in Microsoft Word and allows you to customize grammer. It will give an approximate grade level of the document and number of words, sentences, etc.
 * __Auto Correct__** - you have the ability to add additional things to this function. Go under "tools" and "autocorrect options." This will allow you to type abbreviations and the program will automatically change it to the whole word.
 * __PowerPoint__** - Use PowerPoint to organize thoughts, and then you can send it to microsoft and it will be in text format.
 * __TV View__** - use this to project anything from your computer on to any TV.