In this hands-on Macintosh computer lab, you'll have the chance to explore the text, speech, and graphics features of IntelliTalk II as you work with a variety of activities. You'll also have the opportunity to create your own activity and overlay. Participants will first explore the program's standard text and speech options and become familiar with simple commands that make it easy for students to read back text any place in their document as well as delete letters, words, or sentences with a single key stroke. You'll learn how to change voices, edit pronunciation, modify font size and color, and change background colors. Participants will have a chance to try out the new Spell Checker as well as the locked text feature that allows the teacher to lock in pieces of text in a document so students can't accidentally erase or write over them.
Locked text is ideal for making worksheets, book report forms, or any type of guided instruction.
Forms can be saved as templates. Each child opens and saves the template in his or her own name, so that the master file can be used again and again. Participants will see how features such as locked text increase opportunities for inclusion. For example, during a follow-up lesson on a story, one student can use the standard keyboard to complete comprehension questions, while a second student answers the same questions by touching a word palette or key on IntelliKeys. One of IntelliTalk's II innovations is its ability to incorporate graphics from the IntelliTools Content Library or from other sources such as clip art, scanned photographs, drawing programs, or pictures from the internet.