Kurzweil 3000 Advance
EMPOWERING A STUDENT TO
LEARN!!
Offers many features that
facilitate successful teaching and
learning
Presenters/Introductions
Alma Rodriguez, AT Coordinator
Glen La Fleur, AT Assistant
Agenda (morning)
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:20
9:20-10:00
10:00-10:15
10:15-11:30
11:30-12:30
12:35-1:35
1:35-2:05
2:05-3:10
3:15-3:30
Introduction/Sharing/Review
Editing Text & Image/Customizing
Accessing Digital Libraries, Editing
Digital Library Files, Internet Sources
Break
Scanning/Labor Saving Features/
Improving Recognition, Scanning other
Languages, Scan Practice
Lunch
Zone Editing
Decoding and Fluency
Strategies
Reading Comprehension/
Wrap Up/Textbooks CDs
Objectives
TPW be able to:
• Access and prepare digital
curriculum (Scanning/Web..)
• Recommend approaches to
integrating instructional strategies
for reading, writing and test taking
Kurzweil 3000
Meeting Students’ Needs
• Provides access to reading material to
meet educational, personal or vocational
goals
• Bridges the gap between learning goals
and reading
• Offers independent access to curriculum
• Provides an environment for
implementing learning strategies
• Is an accommodation for test taking
Unit 1: Getting Started
Unit 1: Getting Started
Will learn:
• How other educators have used Kurzweil
3000 to facilitate successful reading and
learning
• Different ways of bringing content into
Kurzweil
• How to customize the user interface
• How to edit text and image documents
Question and Discussion
• What difficulties have your students
encountered in reading, writing or
test-taking?
• How have you used Kurzweil 3000
to help students with reading,
writing, or test-taking?
Lesson 1: Review the Basics
• Sign-in and customize the user interface
• Identify the different ways you can bring
content into Kurzweil 3000
• Open electronic files created in other
software applications using the KESI
virtual printer and the Open features
• Working with Toolbars
• Practice
Lesson 2: Editing Text and
Image Documents
• Compare image and text
documents
• Edit an image document using
annotation and fill-in-the-black
features
• Edit a text document by changing
formatting and using annotation
features
Comparing Image / Text
Documents
Text Documents
Text documents contain text information only (description)
• Created by typing in text, opening an exciting text, word
processor or extracting, annotations or highlights from
image document (description)
• Students can create, edit and format text documents for
study guides and to complete writing assignments
(Purpose)
• Cut/Paste, insert page breaks, Text formatting—font, size,
style, line spacing, word spacing (Supported Editing)
• Highlights, Bookmarks, Voice notes and Footnotes
(Supported Study Skills)
Comparing Image / Text
Documents
Image Documents
Image documents contain two layers: (description)
• The image, which is a picture of the page on the screen
and includes pics, graphics and text, and
• The underlying text, which is the set of words read.
• Generated by scanning or virtual printing
• Image documents are used for print-based materials that
need to be read or with curriculum content that has
graphics or images that support the text (Purpose)
• You cannot format or change the appearance, but
change some editing (editing)
• Highlights, Bookmarks, Voice notes, Footnotes, Text
notes, Sticky Notes, Fill in the Blanks
Lesson 2: Editing Text and
Image Documents
• The integrity of an image document cannot
be compromised by typing directing into it,
because it is a picture of the original
document. While formatting cannot be
changed, image documents can edited using
annotation or underlying text features.
• Text documents can be edited to
increase visual clarity by making
formatting changes such as line
spacing, as well as font type, size and
style.
Lesson 2: Editing Text and
Image Documents
• Annotations, such as footnotes, can be inserted
to provide supplemental information
• Text document, the text can be personalized by
changing the font type, size and style, students
can enlarge font for easier reading or italicize
for easier reading or quick visual reference.
• Students, with memory and attention issues,
can supported by adding bookmarks to a text
document..
• Guided Practice
Lesson 3: Customizing Toolbars
• Access and display a custom
toolbar set.
• Customize a toolbar by adding and
removing functions.
• Customize the right mouse button
to facilitate editing
Toolbar Sets
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Classic (Default)
Content Reading
Fluency Training
Pleasure Reading
Study Skills
Training
• Vocabulary
• Basic
• Document
Preparation
• Language
Learning
• Proofreading
• Test Taking
•Guided Practice
Unit 1: Summary
• What are the advantages of having users signin with their user name?
• What are the 5 ways to bring content into
Kurzweil 3000?
• What is a text document?
• What is an image document?
• How can the KESI Virtual Printer be used to
create image documents of digital files?
• Can text documents be edited by changing
formatting?
• Can image document be edited by changing
formatting?
Unit 2: Accessing Existing
Digital Material
Accessing Existing Digital
Material
• Digital Libraries (Project Gutenberg,
Baen, Bookshare.org, Accessible Book
Collection..Questia.com
• Internet Sources (Merlot.org,
Encyclopedia.com, Kathyschrock.net
• Electronic Files (Publisher’s Electronic
Textbook (PDF), Inspiration (ISF),
Microsoft Word (DOC, RTF). PowerPoint
(PPT)
Lesson 4: Accessing Digital
Libraries
Kurzweil 3000’s Online Search option provides
easy access to a number of digital libraries on
the internet and on the Classic Literature CD
• Identify the digital libraries accessible from
Kurzweil 3000’s Online Search Feature
• Use the Online Search feature to search,
select, and download files from digital libraries
• Identify the types of electronic text on the
classis Literature CD
• Open, read and save a file from the Classis
literature CD
Lesson 4: Accessing Digital
Libraries
Digital Library/Type
• Gutenberg Project/Free
• Baen Free Library/Free
• Bookshare.org/
Subscription
• Web Braille/
Subscription
• Accessible Book
Collection/Subscription
• Classic Literature
CD/Free
Description
• Literature-no longer
copyrighted
• Science fiction/fantasy
• Diverse/book sharing
community
• Electronic Braille Books
• High interest/low reading
level (Amazon)
• No longer copyrighted
Accessing Digital Libraries
• Search for books by author and/or
title or specific query
• Search in a specific site or in
multiple sites
• Select and down load multiple files
at one time
• Online search…Search for Books
• Guided Practice
Accessing/Editing Digital
Libraries
The Classic Literature CD
(use Literature CD)
• The classic Literature CD is a portable library,
of approximately 1,800 electronic texts,
selected from public domain materials available
fro Web sites such as www.gutenburg.net
• Enable editing; add page breaks and
bookmarks to improve navigation
• Improve readability by adjusting formatting,
word spacing and background color of a text file
• Guided Practice
Lesson 6: Working with
Internet Sources
The internet is a valuable resource for students. Using the Read the
Web feature in Kurzweil 3000 makes it accessible to students with
reading difficulties.
The Read the Web toolbar enables you to customize the reading
experience when accessing the Internet.
Will learn:
• Use Read the Web feature in Kurzweil 3000
• Decide whether web pages should be saved as a text or an
image file
• Save a web page as a text file
• Open a PDF file in Kurzweil or save it in color using the KESI
Virtual printer.
• Guided Practice
Lesson 6: Working with
Internet Sources (continue)
• The KESI Virtual Printer
(TO SAVE AS A IMAGE DOCUMENT )
• Select KESI Virtual Printer from the web browser’s Print
Name List
• Kurzweil icon on Taskbar will flash as file is downloaded
and converted to an image document
• Image file opens behind active window
• Use the Windows menu to select the new image file
• Guided Practice
Lesson 6: Working with
Internet Sources (continue)
WebPages can be saved for offline use by:
• Saving as .html file to maintain document
formatting
• Saving as .txt file to save text only
• Open in Kurzweil to work with document
• Can be converted to an image document, on a
computer with Kurzweil 3000 professional,
using KESI Virtual Printer
• Saving a PDF file for access in Kurzweil 3000
• Guided Practice
Unit 2 Review Questions
• How can documents be located
using the Online Search features?
• What types of reading can be found
on the Classic Literature CD?
• Under what circumstances would it
be preferable to save a web page
as a text document?
• How can you read PDF files linked
to web pages?
Unit 3: Preparing Scanned
Material
Unit 3: Preparing Scanned
Material
The process of converting print materials to digital files
becomes streamlined when you know how to use
Kurzweil 3000’s scanning, editing and file
management features.
• In Unit 3 you will learn:
• About copyright law, the OCR process and suitable
materials for scanning
• Labor-saving strategies to improve scanning results
• Recognition enhancement strategies to improve scanning
results
• How to scan and read non-English language material
Lesson 7: Labor Saving
Features
• TPW learn:
– Use scanning options to improve
scanning efficiency
– Insert, delete, rescan, and reorder
pages during the scanning process
Lesson 7: Labor Saving
Features
Using the following scanning options will decrease hands on
attention and increase the speed of scanning:
• Two page Scan
– Enables scanning of 2 pages at a time
– During OCR process the image’s center is
detected and divided into 2 separate pages
• Repeated Scan Delay—Flat bed scanner
– Scans pages at a preset interval
– Default is 10 seconds
– Scan Delay interval can be adjusted through
Tools
Options
Scan
Lesson 7: Labor Saving
Features
• Setting Page Size
– Decrease scanner surface area/process
– Page size setting holds for current scanning returns to
default
– Setting Page Size /accessed through Scan—scanner
– Set-up—Scanned Page Size
• Double Sided
– Use when you have double sided pages
– Duplex scanners can scan both sides of a page at
one time
– Kurzweil will prompts you to flip stack over, collates
the pages, adds to fill
– Guided Practice
Lesson 7: Labor Saving
Features
• Inserting, Deleting, and Rescan Pages
– Insert Page (new page appears before
current page, pages are renumbered to
reflect addition of new page.
– Delete a Page (current page is
rescanned/page numbers remain the same)
– Rescan a Page ( Current page is
rescanned, page numbers remain the same)
– Guided Practice
Lesson 8: Improving
Recognition
• TPW be able to:
– Recognize when Brightness, Dynamic
Thresholding, and Despeckle should
be used to improve recognition
– Use Brightness, Dynamic
Thresholding and Despeckle features
Lesson 8: Improving
Recognition
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Characteristics/Type
Common Solutions
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Porous paper/novel
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Off-White
background/novel
Fancy or Decorative
Fonts/Novels
Thin pages
/Textbooks, magazine
Shiny pages, Textbook,
magazine
Columns/Textbook,
magazine
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Adjust brightness-lower
values result in a darker
image, higher values
result in a lighter image
Adjust brightness
Edit Underlying Text
–
Adjust brightness, place
paper over page,
photocopy
Adjust Brightness
–
Check Find Columns box
Lesson 8: Improving
Recognition
Characteristics/Type
– Colored Backgrounds
/Textbook, magazine
– Text color similar to
background color/
Textbook, magazine
– Backgrounds of small
colored dots or
speckled paper/
Newspaper/Textbook
– Dark pages/Textbook,
magazine
Common Solutions
– Check Dynamic
Threshold option,
Photocopy page
– Adjust brightness
– Check Despeckle
option, Adjust
brightness
– Check white on black
box
Lesson 8- 9: Scanning
• Get in Groups of 2 or 3
• Select Scanning Materials
– English –Textbook in Color
– Handout for fill in the blank
– Story and questions format
– Spanish Story
– Guided Practice
– Other scanning materials
Unit 3: Summary
• What labor-saving features are available
for scanning print material into Kurzweil
3000?
• What scanner settings impact the
recognition of zones and text?
• How can you deal with poorly scanned
pages or misplaced pages within a
scanned document?
• What must be changed in the scanning
tab to scan in languages other than
English?
Unit 4: Editing Scanned
Materials/Document Preparation
Refer to Kurzweil Tutorial Book
Lesson 10: Zone Editing/
Document Preparation
• TPW be able to:
– Explain the purpose of zone editing
– Identify the three types of zone
properties
– Recognize typical zone editing
decisions for different types of reading
material
– Delete, add and change zones to
improve the reading order
Lesson 10: Zone Editing/
Document Preparation
• Editing with different types of materials:
– Novels: Eliminating zones containing page titles
and numbers increases the story’s flow
– Textbooks: Textbooks contain graphics and
captions that provide supplemental information, but
are not necessary for the initial reading. By changing
zone properties, supplemental information can be
chose at the reader’s discretion
– Magazines: Magazines may contain several
articles on a page or include advertisements. By
specifying primary zone a specific article can be
selected for reading.
Lesson 10: Document
Preparation
• Scanning
– Open/start Kurzweil
3000
– Place the document
face down on the
scanner
– In the Kurzweil 3000
Main toolbar, click
Scan button (several
samples)
– Click SAVE
button/rename the
document “Scan
Sample”
– Practice
• Read Documents
– Open scanned
documents, click the
READ button
– Listen for
mispronunciations
and reading order
– Practice
Lesson 10: Zone Editing
• Zone Editor
/Reading Order
– Select Zone Editor from
Toolbar
– Change a Zone to
Secondary Text, the
title
– Click desired zone/hold
down the right mouse
button /display
menu/select properties
– Click Secondary Text
button/click OK
– Reorder a zone/renumber/select
properties
– Click reading order box
type number
• Continue
– Change zone property to
Graphic, ex.. page
number, click desired
zone/select
properties/Graphics/ok
– Note color changes to
“light Blue”, no zone #
– Click OK
– Click “READ”, listen to
reading order
– SAVE the document,
continue with document
preparation
– Practice
Lesson 10: Document Preparation/
Correcting Recognition
• Open scanned
sample
– Click Edit Text
– Use scroll bar to
view all text
– Results differ, find
error to correct
– Click error in
Underlying Text area
– Image of word
appears in the
Selected Word
area/Text Edit Box
• Continue
– Click in the text edit
box and make the
desired changes
– Make additional
corrections/ done
click OK
– Save document
– Read to hear
corrections
– Click Close
– Practice
Lesson 10: Zone Editing
• Demonstration on Zone Editing
• Practice: Refer Kurzweil
• Download using pen drive, documents
scanned by your group
– Zone Edit Two Documents
– Follow Steps:
• Right click in blank toolbar area and select
Document preparation
• Zoom to 100%
• Activate Zone Editor
• Add zone or
• Delete zone or
• Properties for order of reading
Integrating Kurzweil into
Reading Instruction
• Reinforce core reading skills such
as decoding, fluency, vocabulary
development, and comprehension
• Provides not only instructional
opportunities, but provides students
access to print material, working to
overcome their reading deficits
The End
Thank You….
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