Bridges News — GAFE/ Chromebook

COVID Update: Don Johnston, Clicker apps available for home 0

With most schools across the country now closed as the result of the coronavirus outbreak, many of our manufacturers are offering special programs to support those students that are going home for eLearning. Don Johnston, the developer of Co:Writer, Snap&Read and Readtopia, and Crick, developer of the new Clicker 8 and Clicker Writer app are offering free access to their tools. 

Symbolized Winter Rules and Vocabulary 0

Once the first snow falls, use this symbolized rule sheet and vocabulary in your classroom for a safe and inclusive play outside. They are absolutely free, and available in French! 

The 4 Winter Rules for a playground and accompanying vocab sheet was created with Widgit Online and will come in handy for any winter activity you have planned. We tried to make this little resource as relevant as possible to most school playgrounds so there’s only 4 key rules. The vocab sheet could be used for newcomers, in a supported classroom or early grades.

New K3000 Accessibility Feature -- Customize Win. Shortcut Keys 0

With so many different accessibility options now ubiquitous – touch, voice, as well as a myriad pointer options – it’s easy to overlook how vitally important keyboard commands are. 

Kurzweil recently introduced customizable shortcut keys for the web version of K3000 Windows.  Reflective of Kurzweil’s practice of constant product improvement, this new feature will be rolled out to web license customers, seamlessly.  In fact if you have K3000 web, you might very well already have it.

NEW K3000 Web: Read and Outline on your Phone, Chromebook, PC -- anywhere 0

NEW K3000 for Web Browsers takes research or brainstorming to writing from the web to any device. 

Students can read on a phone or tablet, then continue work on a Chromebook, laptop or desktop. When they are ready to start writing, they can create a new Draft, Brainstorm or Outline on the web. K3000 gives students the flexibility to quickly and effortlessly jump from brainstorming and drafting online to continuing offline in a document.