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Open-sourcing offers great potential for AT software users. However, currently there are a number of barriers that stop its wider use within the AT community. It is generally difficult to find on the Internet and, until the OATS Project, there have been no specific websites dedicated to developing or downloading AT software. Open-source software can also be unfriendly to install, often obliging the user to download many different packages before it can be set up and used. Often it is still "under-development", poorly documented or technically demanding, something that the end user finds frustrating and irritating. To see just how complicated this can be for the lay enquirer, one need only visit the most well-known source of mainstream open-source products, Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/). Finding OATS products here is like experiencing death by a thousand cuts! The OATS Project's repository will strip away all the technical complexity and provide via its database and search engine an efficient and intuitive way to access good quality OATS. By removing these barriers to open-source AT software, users will not only have a single point of contact for obtaining open-source software but volunteer developers will also discover a forum where they can develop ideas and write software that meets the real needs of specific end users.

This is from a website that explains why differentiating instruction is important. It also includes ways to incorporate technology in the classroom to help differentiate lessons.

Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom: Tutorials, software to download, activities, links

Link to the About Dokuwiki information and link to the download for the software. Dokuwiki is an opensource wiki software

"AVG Rescue CD is basically a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus supplied through Linux distribution which can be used as a bootable CD or bootable USB flash drive suitable for recovering MS Windows and Linux operating systems (FAT32 and NTFS file systems) from virus and spyware attack. AVG Rescue CD administration toolset also includes a Windows Registry editor, a TestDisk utility for recovering deleted files and lost partitions, a file browser for navigating folders, and a Ping tool for basic network diagnostics. How does AVG rescue CD work? Simply download to any CD or USB stick and insert into damaged computer like a recovery disk. Upon booting, the free AVG software will automatically mount all hard drives of the computer and scan them for viruses and malware, while automatically restoring a safe network connection. Download AVG Rescue Free now onto any CD or DVD or USB flash drive. They promise free support and service for paid license holders of any AVG product."

Audacity is a free widely used sound editing/mixing suite. Download and install the software. To make mp3 files you will need to download a LAME file. Instructions for this at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music,+Sound+&+Podcasts

Completely free software for downloading YouTube videos

Microsoft's Photostory is a great piece of software to make video presentations from photos. Designed for XP, but works on newer Windows as well. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+&+Images

Updated list of webinar, meeting, and desktop sharing solutions ranging from Moodle to various online and downloadable programs.

3d creation software free application

Blender is a superb open source professional 3D animation program. Download and make cartoons that what make Pixar proud in no time. Addition free download may be required when prompted. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video,+animation,+film+&+Webcams

fast, easy, and FREE way to create crossword puzzles in minutes. Best crossword generator I have seen. Embeds very nicely in websites.

Download this crossword making software to create your own puzzles for your class. Just enter the words and clues. The software does the rest. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

I have used this for my math classes to help work on the math vocabulary ... everyone seems to love it

Download this simple screen capture software. The videos do not have a watermark and are made using a easily editable AVI format. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

With PDFVue you can upload any document from any computer without having to have expensive client software. Once you've made your changes you can simply download the updated PDF or share the secure PDFVue link.

This is a great tool. Thanks for sharing!

Create your own font - no software required. All you need is a printer and a scanner and it's free. You can give this to kids and they can create their own font!. NOTE - this site is no longer Free. You can see your font but need to pay $9.95US to download it. What a rip off!!

Free download software reads web pages aloud. Also reads pdf and word files. 

Boardmaker Share Free downloadable activities if you own Boardmaker Picture Communication software.

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The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built of a bright brick throughout; its sky-line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild. It had been the outburst of a speculative builder, faintly tinged with art, who called its architecture sometimes Elizabethan and sometimes Queen Anne, apparently under the impression that the two sovereigns were identical. It was described with some justice as an artistic colony, though it never in any definable way produced any art. But although its pretensions to be an intellectual centre were a little vague, its pretensions to be a pleasant place were quite indisputable. The stranger who looked for the first time at the quaint red houses could only think how very oddly shaped the people must be who could fit in to them. Nor when he met the people was he disappointed in this respect. The place was not only pleasant, but perfect, if once he could regard it not as a deception but rather as a dream. Even if the people were not "artists," the whole was nevertheless artistic. That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face-that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem. That old gentleman with the wild, white beard and the wild, white hat-that venerable humbug was not really a philosopher; but at least he was the cause of philosophy in others. That scientific gentleman with the bald, egg-like head and the bare, bird-like neck had no real right to the airs of science that he assumed. He had not discovered anything new in biology; but what biological creature could he have discovered more singular than himself? Thus, and thus only, the whole place had properly to be regarded; it had to be considered not so much as a workshop for artists, but as a frail but finished work of art. A man who stepped into its social atmosphere felt as if he had stepped into a written comedy.

dotEPUB is software in the cloud that allows you to convert any webpage into an e-book

SuperTeacherTools.com is dedicated to providing technology tools for teaching that are quick and easy to download, learn, and start using in your classroom. In the site, you will find a variety of review games, classroom management software, and other miscellaneous tools for educators.