Assisting Students with Diverse Learning Styles

Customizing your Browser

Internet Browsers, such as Google Chrome have become more accessible through features you can easily embed into your browser when going online. After you sign-in you may access extensions through the Google store to help support reading, writing and vision. The student is able to use these features on any computer after they sign-in with the particular browser they use at home or school. Examples you may want to try to customize your Google Chrome browser could be…

·   WolframAlpha – easy and quick access to search for any math calculation, conversion units and plots math functions

·   Bookshare web-reader – text to speech reader along with word-level highlighter for Bookshare books in DAISY format  How to Use Bookshare web-reader

·   Grammarly Lite - Prevents spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes when you write emails or post to social media

·   Metalmouth voice browser – Voiceover to the browser

·   Mini-Calculator – completes many mathematical functions

·   Readability -  app that zaps clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view