You may have seen this app on your chromebooks. It often pops up as an add on app, and students randomly click on install or not without a reason. Then they complain that there is a bothersome tool bar at the top of their screen that looks like this:
You can hide the bar when it shows up by clicking on the green and yellow square. The pull down menu will stay and you can click on it again to bring it back. So why would anyone want this or use this?
It is a text to speech app. It will read what is on your document within google docs. I think it’s a great tool for students to edit their work. I often tell my students to read their work aloud and listen for mistakes or awkward wording. This does that out loud reading for them. It is a simple replacement for kurzweil that doesn’t require extra software downloads. It will work for pdfs that are saved within your Drive as well. Students can scan text, upload to google Drive and open with Read&Write for google (you can choose “open with” by right clicking on the document name in Drive). You do have to highlight the text you want read.
I’m sure it will do lots of other stuff, but I haven’t played with it very much. But if you or your students use kurzweil, or you know students who have trouble reading or editing their work you may want to check it out.
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