2008
Flowchart.com - Flowchart software - Create Flowcharts Online with Realtime collaboration - [Beta v2.0 build 7218]
by knann & 1 other (via)Flowchart.com is an online multi-user, real-time collaboration flowchart software. Flowcharting made easy.
Flowchart.com does not require any software download, it works with your favorite browser such as Fire Fox, IE, Opera, Safari, Konquerer.
Flowchart.com works on any Operating System.
Work together
You can collaborate with your colleagues in real-time. All collaborating parties can chat and design a flowchart at the same time.
Pencil - a traditional 2D animation software
by knann (via)Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.
Simply Entertainment
by knann (via)Accessible Learning/entertainment software
Where to get those games, at low cost, or for FREE
What to look for in selecting those games, quickly and with fewer costly mistakes
How to apply those games to your learning objectives, without a lot of mystery
Who to go to for FREE help
2007
Thoughtex - Software for Ideas
by knann & 1 other (via)Brainstorming tool for Windows XP and Vista.
SketchUcation -
by knann & 1 otherThis site is still under construction perhaps for awhile. It will be a terrific resources for learning how to use sketchup in an interactive environment
SourceForge.net: TypeFaster Typing Tutor
by knann & 1 other (via)Free and accessible typing tutor software. Teachers can confugure settings for each student.
2006
dotReader
by knannIt's a tool ...
The dotReader is the "Swiss Army Knife" of e-book readers, a multi-function tool that is highly innovative and highly interactive.
It's a community, a social networking tool...
You are never alone when you use the dotReader. Be instantly connected and engaged to readers who share your interests.
It's a library ...
Content you download into the dotReader can be organized any way you wish - similar to the way you might organize and bookmark your favorite websites in your browser. However, not only can you search YOUR library, you can also search OTHER remote libraries from within the dotReader. Examples might include public libraries, publisher websites, eBook distributors, organizational documents, and others. Entire businesses can be built around this feature alone.
GeoGebra
by knannGeoGebra is a free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. It received several international awards including the European and German educational software awards. It is open sourced, can be web-based or installed locally. Very similar to Geometer's sketchpad.
NCAM/Beyond the Text:
by knann (via)tHardware/Software Comparison Table
Comparison chart of e-book and digital talking book (DTB) hardware and software
LibCasting » Screencasting Software
by knannList of links to commercial, opensource or free screencasting software by platform
OATS Opens Source Assistive Technology Software
by knannOATSoft is dedicated to improving Assistive Technology and computer accessibility through the power of Open Source development techniques. OATSoft makes the best Open Source Assistive Technology Software (OATS) easy to find. Users and developers meet at OATSoft to create better software. Users can find useful software and discuss and work with developers to get the features that you want.
PowerTalk - automatic speech for PowerPoint presentations
by knann & 2 othersPowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.
You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic 'Text To Speech' programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images.
Speech is provided by the standard synthesised computer voices that are provided with Windows.
Star Office 4 Kids: Open Source
by knannStarOffice 4 Kids has been uniquely designed for easy customization by individual teachers to support specific learning objectives. It is aligned to the needs of a teacher and his or her specific teaching materials and not vice versa.
StarOffice 4 Kids allows the teacher to handle an interactive learning process according to learning steps that he or she considers appropriate. Not only according to the age-specific steps of the class, but also in regard to the individual learning progress of the class or a selected group of students. Adjusted to the learning speed of the students a teacher could, for example, easily focus on the fundamentals of word processing. The teacher could start with work sheets with just the functions for using of texts in different fonts and font sizes. Once the students have learnt how to use those functions, the teacher could add new functions to the function toolbar and teach those in a next step.
StarOffice 4 Kids makes it easy for the teacher to produce documents for the exercises in class. A teacher can easily transform usual office documents into task sheets for the class and store them into the subject specific folders. The students will find them in the workspace of their class. They will work on them and save them in their own workspace. This workspace only contains the personal files and that is protected from the access of other students.
StarOffice 4 Kids documents and user interfaces are based on an XML data format, augmenting the open source StarOffice/OpenOffice format. That way StarOffice 4 Kids guarantees smooth integration and immediate use of external teaching material as provided by publishers in education. Teachers could directly take on the teaching material they need and use it in class.
SketchUp: Dream. Design. Communicate. Geometry for the Real World
by knann & 2 othersGoogle has some free software that some Math Teachers may want to look at and use with their classes. The software is called SketchUp and it’s a simple but powerful tool for quickly and easily creating, viewing and modifying your 3D ideas.lick on a shape and push or pull it to create your desired 3D geometry. Experiment with color and texture directly on your model. Real-time shadow casting lets you see exactly where the sun falls as you model. Select from thousands of pre-drawn components to save time drawing. I was very impressed with the ease of use of the software along with the video tutorials and user guide that is on the site. It’s worth taking a look if you teach Geometry.
2005
West Point Bridge Designer Software and Tutorial
by knannFree PC software for educational use. Great for design and technology classes.
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