Co:Writer iPad App now works in other Apps

Co:Writer iPad app already had unbeatable word prediction and topic dictionaries. With the new update, Co:Writer works in any other writing application on your iPad or iPhone  — Word, Google Docs, Pages, email, social network. Co:writer now works as its own on-screen keyboard. In this setting, the prediction options appear above the keyboard, typing into whatever writing app you’re using.…

Symbolized Winter Rules and Vocab

Apart from Calgary, (where I hear they have flurries) not a lot of Canada is getting the sort of winter weather we usually expect by this time of year.  Nonetheless, you know it will come eventually. And when it does our 4 Winter Rules for a playground and accompanying vocab sheet that we created with Widgit Online, (the web…

New Chrome Extension Shifts the Accessible Text Paradigm

What’s accessible text? Text that can be read out loud, format changed, notes added etc.? But what about making the text actually more understandable?
New Snap&Read Universal’s chrome extension’s built in dynamic text levelling shifts the definition of accessible text.

Accessible Text Repositories — Canadian and International

Recently, a teacher in BC whose student just received Kurzweil 3000 called and said “Given that many students in BC use Kurzweil 3000, I have two questions: 1) Surely, I don’t have to turn a whole bunch of common Grade 6 novels and textbooks into .kesi files for this specific student? 2) Surely, someone else has…

Co:Writer Universal is Here! Any Platform, Anytime, Everywhere

Co:Writer Universal for all platforms is now available at one easy subscription price: Windows, Mac, Chromebooks, iPad, at school, at home, for students, staff and everyone in your education community. Why Co:Writer, why now?  From the very beginning, Don Johnston incorporated proprietary algorithms into Co:Writer that didn’t just minimize spelling mistakes, but addressed the common writing…

Kurzweil firefly ramps-up document versatility/management

Kurzweil has added a plethora of new features to firefly in recent weeks.  firefly is a tool that lets you read Kurzweil, PDF and other files through virtually every Flash enabled web browser (firefly has a sister app for the iPad, too).  firefly is available free when K3000 is purchased with a web license, including unlimited web license (learn more about K3000 web…

Canadian SymWriter 2 is here!

The wait is finally over.  We took more than a year to translate and localize the new Canadian version of SymWriter 2 but it’s now available, exclusively from Bridges. Inspire activate and guide writers with the quicker and easier than ever, SymWriter 2.  And our version has even more Canadian curricular vocabulary in both English…

First Author Special Offer

Don Johnston has a special pricing for First Author software starting October 1st until Dec. 31st, 2013. Buy 5 or MORE classroom unlimited licenses for only $499 per unlimited classroom license. (Quote Offer Code: S1792.  Licenses not available through web store, contact Bridges for a quote.) First Author is a software tool that facilitates the writing…

Co: Writer 7 and Co:Writer iPad App now here!

Co:Writer has a 20-year history of helping students write even after nothing else worked.    Now, for 2013 Co:Writer is even better with the new iPad App and Co:Writer 7. The Co:Writer iPad App uses the same word prediction engine as Co:Writer desktop with many of the most important features students rely on like FlexSpell and…

ChooseIt Maker 3 is Coming – Online!

ChooseIt Maker has been a perennial favourite of educators and therapists working with early and emerging learners for close to a decade.  A simple focused user interface meant anyone could easily create a wide variety of choice-making activities to develop memory, literacy, numeracy, time telling, categorization and social skills in just about any topic you…