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A powerful literacy software for students and adults who struggle with printed text to access curriculum materials, casual reading, work place reading and writing

Kurzweil 3000 is a powerful way for students who struggle with printed text to access curriculum materials so they can keep up with assigned reading, learn critical study skills, and successfully complete writing projects and tests independently. Kurzweil 3000 Version 5 for Macintosh includes a simple graphic user interface that appeals to a wide range of students, from elementary school to college.

Kurzweil 3000 provides the support needed to keep up with assigned reading, practise critical study skills, successfully complete writing projects and test independently. Kurzweil 3000 provides a reading and writing platform to support the special education classroom, to the struggling Dyslexic reader at home, to the workplace.

The software can access virtually any document or publication-printed or electronic. It reads text aloud for auditory support while a patented dual-highlighting feature provides visual reinforcement of onscreen text.

Educators and independent research have demonstrated that Kurzweil 3000 provides important tools that help students improve their fluency, reading speed and comprehension. It offers a powerful way to access curriculum material for students who struggle with printed text so they can keep up with assigned reading, learn critical study skills, and successfully complete writing projects and tests independently.

Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh is designed specifically for Macintosh computers with a simple, graphic user interface that appeals to a wide range of students from primary school to higher education.

Kurzweil 3000 Features and Benefits

Patented Dual Highlighting

Kurzweil 3000’s patented dual highlighting of onscreen text improves students’ reading performance by highlighting a sentence, line or phrase in one colour and highlighting each word in another colour as it is read aloud.

Read the Web Using Mozilla Firefox

Kurzweil 3000 enhances audible and visual access to web pages with Mozilla Firefox, opening up the resources of the Internet to all students, while providing the same reading and reference features that users enjoy within Kurzweil 3000.

Create Audio File with iTunes® Integration

Taking your reading where you want has never been easier with the Create Audio File feature. You’ll have a number of options for your file conversions, including AAC, Apple Lossless, or MP3; a choice of reading voice and reading speed; and the option to save audio files to a folder or to an iTunes playlist for effortless transfer to your iPod®.

Unique Test-Taking Capabilities

With Kurzweil 3000, students can independently complete worksheets, classroom tests or standardised exams containing circle-the-answer, fill-in-the blanks, true/false, and essay questions within the program.

Powerful Study Skills Tools

Students can improve their reading comprehension and retention with tools such as text highlighting, annotations, Bubble Notes, voice notes, bookmarks and extraction of outlines or word lists.

Use Bubble Notes for Powerful Instructional Support

Teachers can embed Bubble Notes containing questions and instructions to assigned reading to help students stay on task and support reading comprehension.

Quick Access to Look-it-up Tools

One-click access to word support features such as dictionary definitions, synonyms, syllabification, and word spelling helps students read and write independently.

Flexible Writing Tools

As students type, they can use the check-spelling-while-typing and speak-while-typing features to quickly recognise and correct spelling mistakes. The audible spell checker and comprehensive Word Prediction feature further assist students with writing and editing reports, essays and papers independently.

Word Prediction

Students can type the beginning letters of a word, even with phonetic spelling, see a list of word choices, and click on individual words in the list to hear possible choices before selecting the word they want.

Access to Electronic Files

In addition to Kurzweil Educational Systems’ format, Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh opens and works with most electronic files, including: Microsoft Word, RTF, and PDF files, as well as the Windows version of Kurzweil 3000 for easy file sharing across school networks. Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh will NOT open native AppleWorks and ClarisWorks files.

Classic Literature CD-ROM included

Over 1000 electronic texts, including literary classics for adults and children, reference materials, and historical manuscripts come with Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh.

Accurate Display of Graphics and Illustrations with Text

Kurzweil 3000 files retain the original text and graphics of scanned materials in full colour.

Version 5 Highlights

• High quality text to speech, with variable speed settings
• Integrated Reading tools: Dictionary, Language translation, visual tracking
• Writing tools: Talking word processor, outline tool, auditory spell checker
• Study Skills Support: Internet Reader, online highlighter, note taking
• Test Taking Accommodations
• Support for learning disabilities such as Dyslexia, Translation support for English Language Learners (ELL)
• Web Licensing
  Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Web Licensing Edition allows access to the program from any Internet connected computer with the client software installed. Roaming User Profiles create a unique learning environment specifically tailored to each individual’s needs for use whenever and wherever they login.

Kurzweil 3000 Licensing Options

• Standalone – Ideal for single users
• Network – Best for building-wide usage. Install anywhere within the network – and use up to the purchased number of licences concurrently.
• Web Licensing – Differs from the Network Edition in several ways. Most importantly, software licences are managed via Web services hosted by Cambium Learning Technologies. In addition it allows students and teachers to install Kurzweil 3000 on any computer – school, home, library, or other as desired.

“Kurzweil 3000 allows me to keep up with the reading and writing demands of a rigorous graduate program. The Word Prediction feature helps with completing sentences quickly and more fluidly. Also, I especially like the editing features. For instance, I can turn off reading certain text zones and reorder other zones, making it easier to study” – Gwynne Osaki, Graduate Student, Interdepartmental Program Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, USA

“Hearing text read aloud by the computer is exceptionally important for ESL/EFL students, who rarely receive enough spoken input. Kurzweil 3000 reads word-processed documents, e-mail, scanned text, even Web pages. And it has excellent study tools: students can look up words in a glossary, highlight text, and create notes – and save it all into a built-in word processor for later review.” – Dr. Elizabeth Hanson – Smith, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA

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What ‘s included in your Kurzweil 3000 Version 5 for Macintosh package?

Standalone Product Pack: Box, Box Insert, Serial Number, Installation and Documentation DVD, IS-eContent Card

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Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$NZ Price	$NZ GST
	Kurzweil 3000 Version 5 for Macintosh - Single User Licence	Available now in Australia and NZ. Allows you to scan printed documents and have them appear in full colour or black-and-white on screen.
	KZ301971T1	DVD-ROM	Mac OS X	$1,570.00	$235.50
	Kurzweil 3000 Version 5 for Macintosh - Quantity Purchase 3-9 Licences	Price listed is per User. Please specify quantity required.
	KZ301971T2	DVD-ROM	Mac OS X	$1,260.00	$189.00
	Kurzweil 3000 Version 5 for Macintosh - Quantity Purchase 10-19 Licences	Price listed is per User. Please specify quantity required.
	KZ301971T3	DVD-ROM	Mac OS X	$950.00	$142.50