![]() ![]() K3000 Web boasts many literacy learning tools all integrated under one application interface. Helpful tips and strategies are available in the Getting Started manual. Be prepared to spend some time familiarizing yourself with customization options. When crafting a new document, helpful popup tooltips display as you hover the mouse pointer over a toolbox tool.Īlthough the program has an intuitive interface with informative click-on buttons and tabs for ease of use, many K3000 Web features can be customized for personal learning. You can re-open recent documents, write a new draft of a document, use the graphic organizer to brainstorm ideas, create an outline of an essay, or scan a paper-based article into a document for reading aloud. Once a text document is in view, you can direct the program to read its text aloud. Documents include classic literature, non-fiction (sorted by grade), and sample text. You can open files stored online in the Kurzweil Universal Library. Menus, toolbar buttons, and clearly labeled tabs simplify navigation. Repeat the process until all tools the student uses most frequently display (see below).Īt program launch, a Start Screen displays K3000's new User Interface (UI) with several options. ![]() To customize the tools that display in the toolbox on the left side of the K3000 window when you select a particular, click the tab that you want to customize, then right-click in the toolbox at the left to display the Insert at Beginning or Insert at End collection of tools. You may need to right-click an existing tab, and remove the checkmark next to the Custom Tab so that your new custom tab displays. To hide the existing Scan tab, for example, right-click any tab, then choose "Hide Scan tab." To create a Custom tab with its own tools tailored to a particular user, right-click any tab, then click Rename Custom Tab, then enter a name for your new tab (e.g., the Student's name). Or, you can simplify the interface by hiding those tabs and creating a new tab with tools specific to a particular user. You can also adjust the tab display in the new UI you can rename existing tabs (Read, Write, and Scan), calling them whatever you like. ![]() For example, you can adjust reading speed from slow to fast (Read Menu>Reading Speed>Increase or Decrease). One of K3000's greatest strengths is that it is highly customizable. Other free Acapela voice packets will install German, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, and alternative English pronunciations (i.e., Australian, UK, and Indian). After I installed North/South American and European Acapela voice bundles and rebooted the computer, French, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish language options appeared in addition to English. As K3000 can handle multiple languages for text-to-speech, you can download and install foreign language voices at no charge as part of the web license subscription (scroll to bottom of the page here). A quick check of the Acapela data folder in Kurzweil 3000's Common Files folder showed a folder only for Tracy but none for Will and Heather. The product I installed however, included only Tracy's voice. Users can choose among these male and female voices to hear selected digital text read aloud. K3000 Web V14.21 includes three default high-quality Acapela voices (Heather, Will, and Tracy), all of whom are English speaking. For a video tutorial on using the new UI, see. The update is also available for download here. Users of Version 14 with administrative privileges can install the V14.21 update from within the program by clicking Online>Update. Once running, it's easy to switch from new interface to classic interface and back again, but each switch prompts the user to login again. The new K3000 Web User Interface (UI) currently runs only on Windows PC versions of K3000 Web. It integrates text-to-speech, text highlighters and sticky notes, word prediction, a talking spell checker, a graphic organizer, a language translator to any Google supported language, text-based writing templates, and access to a cloud-based library with no storage limitations. K3000 Web edition includes several digital literacy tools designed for struggling readers and writers. ![]()
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