Plant the Right Technology: Watch Your Students Bloom With DAISY

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Plant the Right Technology Watch Your Students
Bloom With DAISY
Computer keyboard with a white daisy

• Presenters
• George Kerscher and Varju Luceno
• DAISY Consortium
• January 29, 2009
• 800 am to 900 am Room Boca III
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1. What do Students Need?

• Different features
• Large character display
• Refreshable Braille
• Audio presentation
• Audio and text synchronized

Large character display screen
Plextalk PTP1
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2. What Disability Groups are Served?

• Large print serves the low vision population
• Refreshable Braille serves the student who is
  blind and uses Braille
• Audio serves students who can follow the
  printed book and read along
• Audio synchronized with text serves learning
  disabled, dyslexic, blind, low-vision,
  orthopedically impaired, and the mainstream
  population

Braille reader
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3. Demo of Full Text and Full Audio

• On computer
• On handheld device

Dolphin EaseReader
VictorReader Stream from Humanware
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4. DAISY is a Standard for Educational Materials
DAISY is the best way to read and the best way
to publish because

• DAISY is multimedia text, audio, and images
  synchronized.
• Powerful navigation model to chapter, section,
  sub-sections and pages.
• Easy for beginners yet powerful enough for the
  advanced reader.

Laptop with CD labeled DAISY Multimedia
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5. What Makes up a DAISY file set?

• DAISY XML (AKA NIMAS) is the Heart
• Provides all text in correct reading order
• All the images
• extensible Markup Language (XML) is a
  standardized approach to representing information
  
• DAISY XML (NIMAS) defines the elements found
  in books, i.e. headings, sidebars, page numbers,
  footnotes
• The XML is the basic information from which
  everything else is derived

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6. Adding Audio (MP3)

• Synthetic Speech TTS
• B. Human narration

Young man with headset using computer
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7. Images
Two cars and a motorcycle driving under a tunnel
heading toward red and white houses on a hilltop.
The houses are stacked behind each other and
crowded together.

• Presentation of the images on screen.
• Descriptions of the images.

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8. Powerful Navigation of Educational Materials

• Navigating between chapters, sections, and
  sub-sections
• Go directly to the beginning of any page
• Insert bookmarks
• Go to bookmarks
• Insert notes of various types
• Always remembers where you left off reading

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9. The Ideal Full Text, Full Audio, Images, and
Descriptions - What the Students Deserve.

• Serves all students with all disabilities
• Serves the mainstream students as well
  (publishers should sell it)
• Open
• Non-proprietary
• Royalty free
• Proven track record of accessibility
• Formally approved ANSI/NISO/NIMAS, and the
  DAISY Standard

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10. Interoperability What Standards Are All
About

• Vendors should build their products to use the
  standard
• Teachers can take the same DAISY book and use
  it on any system
• Reading systems tailor the presentation
• Use a reading system optimized (designed) for
  the student's disability

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11. Demonstrations of Conforming Reading Systems
Handheld reading systems with no screen Handheld
systems with screens Handheld systems with
refreshable screens Cell phone reading
systems Software reading systems
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12. Demand DAISY Books, Because it is the Best
Way to Read and the Best Way to Publish