Useful and unusual tool

Here's a useful and unusual tool.

Ghotit offers unique writing and reading online services for people who suffer from dyslexia, dysgraphia or people who are not native-English speakers. Ghotit’s first service is an online context sensitive spell checker.

Plus an excellent list of dyslexia research links here by the same crowd
How cool is that?!



We need more technological initiatives in the areas of dysgraphia, written output and dyslexia. Come on you all you pioneering programmers and glory bound geeks ... reflect on any difficulties you may have had at school and apply your current genius to creating software or better still freeware that can help other children and adults who continue to have these struggles.

Multimedia whiteboards found to help learning

A study of multimedia whiteboards used in schools has found that they lead to more creative teaching and help to improve student concentration.

The research by Dr Miriam Judge of Dublin City University, is based on use of the technology in eight Dublin schools.

It is estimated the high tech boards have replaced blackboards in 15% of schools around Ireland.

Watch the report here

Plus here's a second CBS report 'Smart Boards': School Wave Of Future?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/23/earlyshow/main1931179.shtml