what is reading
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Challenging ideas of what literacy means, exploring alternatives and assistive technologies. University course.TRANSCRIPT
What is Reading?
21 October 2008
CEP 452
Ira David Socol
Challenging Text
Dere's no guy livin' dat knows Brooklyn t'roo an t'roo, because it'd take a guy a lifetime just to find his way aroun' duh goddam town.
So like I say, I'm waitin' for my train t' come when I sees dis big guy standin' deh -- dis is the foist I eveh see of him. Well, he's lookin' wild, y'know, an' I can see dat he's had plenty, but still he's holdin' it; he talks good an' is walkin' straight enough. So den, dis big guy steps up to a little guy dat's standin' deh, an' says, "How d'yuh get t' Eighteent' Avenoo an Sixty-sevent' Street?" he says..."
"How long you been livin' heah," I says.
All my life," he says. " I was bawn in Williamsboig," he says. "An I can tell you t'ings about dis town you neveh hoid of," he says.
"Yeah," I says
"Yeah," he says.
"Well, den you can tell me t'ings about dis town dat nobody else has eveh hoid of, either. Maybe you make it all up yoehself at night," I says, "befoe you go to sleep -- lie cuttin' out papeh dolls, or somp'in"
"Oh yeah," he says. "You're pretty wise, ain't yuh?"
"Duh boids ain't using my head for Lincoln's statue yet," I says. "But I'm wise enough to know a phoney when I see one..."
Thomas Wolfe, Only The Dead Know Brooklyn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U55SvF1P0aU
Glasgow Accent, Trainspotting
Is this Reading?
Freedom Scientific: WYNN
Comic Book, Classics Illustrated
Comic Book, Classics Illustrated
Newsvender.- "NOW, MY MAN, WHAT IS IT?" Boy. "I VONTS A NILLUSTRATED
NEWSPAPER WITH A NORRID MURDER AND A LIKENESS IN IT"
Braille
Audio Book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvItuL7vo-A
Film with Subtitles
Text without Words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY
Can we still be learning? Reading?
Text-To-Speech
TTS
On Line Text-To-Speech
http://vozme.com/
http://spokentext.net/
http://www.yakitome.com/
Simple DownloadableWindows Text-To-Speech
http://www.naturalreaders.com/
http://www.readplease.com/
Simple Mac OS TTS
Open System Preferences - it’s the fourth item in the Apple menu. In the “System” section, usually about the fourth line of icons, there is an icon labeled “Speech” which looks like an old fashioned microphone. Click on the Speech icon.
Simple Mac OS TTS
Select any key combination that isn’t already used for something else. Now all you need to do is select some text in an application - I suggest you try it first with Safari or Text Edit - and hit your keys and you should hear Mac OS X read out whatever you have selected!
Multi-Featured DownloadableWindows Text-To-Speech
Microsoft Reader with Text-To-Speech engine and Read in Microsoft Reader (RMR) add-ons - FREE
http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/pc.asp (laptop/desktop PC)http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/tablet.asp (tablet PC, with "write
notes in the margins!")http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/tts.asp (Text-To-
Speech)http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/rmr.asp (RMR,
creates one-click conversions from Microsoft Word)http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/dictionaries.asp (Dictionaries)
Downloadable MS Office Text-To-Speech
WordTalkhttp://www.wordtalk.org.uk/
PowerTalkhttp://fullmeasure.co.uk/powertalk/
Downloadable Audio SoftwareWindows – Mac OS
Audacityhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Free Text-To-Speech in FirefoxWindows – Mac OS
http://clickspeak.clcworld.net/downloads.html
Full Feature Literacy Supports
Purchasable Systems
WYNNhttp://www.freedomscientific.com/LSG/products/WYNN.asp
Read:OutLoudhttp://www.donjohnston.com/products/read_outloud/index.html
Read-and-Write-Goldhttp://www.texthelp.com/page.asp?pg_id=10193
AspireReaderhttp://www.cast.org/products/ereader/index.html
Kurzweil 3000http://www.kurzweiledu.com/kurz3000.aspx
Universal Design for Reading
21 October 2008
CEP 452
Ira David Socol