News from Mrs. Rowland’s Classroom

Mrs. Rowland's computer classes are continuing to work on improving speed and accuracy through timed writings, drills and daily exercises.  Last week, students practiced punctuation keys; period, dash and backslash. While practicing and becoming more proficient with these keys, they incorporated the dots (periods) and dashes with an introductory lesson in Morse Code.  This week, students are working on another "Hot Key" unit.  They will prepare an invitation using their "hot keys" to highlight, Bold text, Center and Underline as directed in the exercise.

Students Using Their Keyboarding Skills
Pictured are ISVI students in Mrs. Hainds' Information Processing class where they are learning keyboarding skills.

One student is using Window-Eyes and the other student is using Zoom Text. Window-Eyes and JAWS are the commonly used screen-reading programs used at ISVI.  These two programs verbalize all text and commands for the computer user. Students in this classroom who use the screen-reading programs also wear headphones so they will hear information from only their computer.

ZoomText is a screen-enlargement program that not only enlarges text but also allows the user to change the contrast levels, shading and screen colors to make it as user-friendly as possible for each individual based on their visual needs.

ISVI is very fortunate to have the latest in assistive technology equipment for the students' use.