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00:00hi I'm mrs. Parker and today I'm going00:04to show you a tool that can read what is00:07on your screen it's a Chrome extension00:09called read aloud we're going to start00:13on the Mukilteo School District web page00:16Mukilteo schools org we're going to go00:20to the student portal either by clicking00:22the student portal button or going to00:25students and Families and clicking00:29students site when we are on the student00:33site on the left hand side there is a00:36link for tech tools to help students00:41read aloud is going to be down here with00:47the speaker symbol we can install it by00:50clicking the link on the right to00:53install the Chrome extension when this00:58page loads you will see a blue button01:01that says add to Chrome click that01:04button and you will get a pop-up01:06checking to make sure that you want to01:09add the extension click add extension it01:13will take a minute and then you'll get a01:15notification that it's been added to01:17your extensions in the upper right area01:20of your browser read-aloud is marked01:23with a red and black megaphone let's try01:27it out over here I have the book The01:34Wonderful Wizard of Oz and I'm on01:36chapter 1 if I want a little help01:39reading this I can highlight highlight a01:48paragraph and push my megaphone up in01:52the corner Dorothy lived in the midst of01:57the great Kansas prairies with Uncle01:59Henry who is a farmer and Aunt Em so you02:02can see it pops up an extra window and02:05at highlight says it's reading when I02:08pushed the square to stop the reading02:11you see that I have a02:12button where I can start it again02:16Dorothy lived in the midst of the great02:18Kansas prairies with Uncle Henry Nathan02:21was a fighter and Aunt Em who is the02:23farmer's wife I can make the bucks02:25their house was small for the lumber to02:27build a bet I can twist square to stop02:30there are some settings available02:34there's an auto select on the voice you02:37can make the voice read slower or faster02:40you can make the pitch lower or higher02:43and you can increase or decrease the02:47volume if you don't like the yellow02:50highlighting as it's reading you can02:52turn that off on the voices you'll see02:55that it has a language next to the voice03:00description that does not mean that the03:04voice is going to read in that language03:06I'll show you with this google espanol03:12notice pretties we thank anime who was03:19the founders wife03:20so those voices read with an accent from03:25the language that you select in English03:28it does not translate and that was very03:31high pitched so I would lower that one03:34this extend and will also work in Google03:38classroom so if I need help reading some03:41of what's on the page for Google03:42classroom I could click into a topic03:45here let's just try the megaphone now03:48one quizzes one assignment labeled03:52diagram quiz no due date two resources03:56one material student homepage posted04:01April first three activities one04:04question did you do your daily reading04:07what is new in your book note due date04:10to so you can see it's reading aloud04:14from my Google classroom page but I04:17didn't get that box that showed me what04:20it was reading so that is the tool04:23called read aloud04:24it can help you really what's on your04:27page