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E-text at Purdue 2: The Adventure Continues
Dean Brusnighan, Assistive Technology SpecialistDavid Schwarte, Assistive Technology SpecialistHeidi Smart, Alternative Formats Coordinator
Outline Background
What we needed in new e-text format
Why we selected DAISY
Production system goals/reality
DAISY reader software goals/reality
Student creation of e-text goals/reality
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Background Our current process provided Kurzweil and PDF
output to end users, for roughly 15 years.
For following reasons, Purdue needed to change the process for creating e-text.
• Software changed its licensing and we anticipated failure of existing software
• We couldn’t continue the process we’d been using
• Software failure for one platform happened sooner than expected
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Background 2 We’ve always provided a method for students to
read e-text outside of a computer lab
Production and training are done by separate units on our campus
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What We Needed
In our new e-text format, we needed:
Variety of readers that work on a variety of platforms
Navigability
Able to support a variety of content types (literature, mathematics, multiple languages)
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Why We Selected DAISY Supporting DAISY already for Bookshare
and Learning Ally
Supports a variety of content types (literature, mathematics, multiple languages)
Production and reading software available from multiple vendors
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Transition Plan
Production – 3 phases
1. Literary – plain text
2. Mathematics
3. Multiple languages
Reader
• Purchase reader for student use
Self-production
• Purchase student production software7
Goals for Production System
Relative ease of use for production software
Desire for similar production time
Tech support for production software and methods
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Production System Reality
Production software relatively easy to use
One production system for literary and another for languages and math
Similar production time not yet accomplished but making progress
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Goals for DAISY Reader Software
Available on both Macintosh and Windows Computers
Licensing should cover on-campus and off-campus use
Support DAISy e-text containing mathematics and DAISy e-texts with multiple languages
Work with DAISy e-text produced on-campus and e-text provided by other services.
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DAISY Reader Reality Already licensed DAISy reader (Read&Write
Gold) does not meet all criteria yet has certain advantages
A second one (ReadHear) has been licensed – it does everything except multi-language e-texts
Unable to find a DAISy reader that supports multi-language documents via synthesized speech
Production method changed to include recording synthesized speech
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Multiple DAISY Readers Read & Write Gold
ReadHear for Mac and PC
Screen readers
Reviewing options for tablets
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Goals for Student Creation of E-text
Should be able to convert a wide variety of formats, including scans and other images
Should be relatively inexpensive
Should be relatively simple to use and does not need to have the number of options of the production software
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Student Creation of E-text Reality
We have not discovered a single program that fulfills all of the needs
We will need to suggest different programs for different needs
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What We Learned Have a definite timeline and solid evaluation
of production process
Students want accurate page numbers and titles
Yet student needs vary Some don’t want audio
Some don’t want page numbers
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More What We Learned Student production training needs to be
early in transition
Students require more training on DAISY
Support for tablets increasingly important
Difference between laptop and tablet?
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Summary Start early with planning a transition
Transitioning to a second production system more difficult than starting from scratch
Difficult to determine the needs of student users
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Contact Us Dean Brusnighan
David Schwarte
Heidi Smart
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