Strategy: Find Resources via Blackboard & Google spell check
7 Keywords: Specific Learning Difficulties, Dyslexia, Mac, Google, Blackboard, Search, Spell Check
"It's Professor S. who did the aircraft design; he says you can use Blackboard a lot, and puts the messages up on it, but basically that takes you back to his website where he has catalogued tons and tons of stuff - a lot of folders – loads of information, so he is very good that way. It takes quite a long time to go through it all – takes ages. He has got quite a resource set up."
"Sussed (the university Intranet) has the course list which drops you into Blackboard, even if there is no content from the Professor in Blackboard – he uses his own website so this needs to be linked from Blackboard."
The video (MP4 3.93MB download) tracks the journey from the Intranet to Blackboard and out again to Google with a spell check to find the information required on the Professor's website
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"Many courses are not using Blackboard fully - including Maths and Computing. Engineers have to use both sets of learning materials, but many of the resources are on separate websites – Blackboard has not been particularly robust in the past and lecturers abandon it if it does not work."
- Andy JTip
Try the Google spell check toolbars to help when filling in forms and text edit boxes when on-line. There are different versions for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Safari has a spell checker that can be found under the edit menu.
