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Jessica Smith

OATS - oats - 29 views

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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.
Rachel Hinton

Why Software 'Containers' Won't Be Bad News for Programmers - 16 views

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    Are software makers writing themselves out of a good living? Recent trends in the computer business indicate we are about to see a phenomenal growth in computing power and the relative ease with which software can be created to utilize it.
Marc Patton

Best Free Software - School Computing - 6 views

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    This page lists a variety of "free" software. Truly free and open source software is marked with an asterisk. Items without asterisks are no-cost proprietary software
Allison Mimms

Differentiating Instruction with Technology - 111 views

  • instructionalstrategies
  • 1.Recognizing similarities and differences
  • Graphic organizers such as the Venn diagram and Comparison matrix
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  • Represent similarities and differences in graphic or symbolic form
  • Sorting, classifying, using metaphors and analogies
  • Word processing tables (Word software)
  • Web-based/downloadable graphic organizers
  • Inspiration and Kidspiration software
  • Beginning, middle, end
  • Clarifying information
  • Teacher-prepared and student-prepared comments
  • Webbing
  • Cornell Note-taking Forms
  • Inspiration and Kidspiration software
  • NoteStar
  • Read•Write•Think Notetaker
  • Word processing notes (Word software
  • 5.Nonlinguistic representations:
  • Creating graphic representations
  • Drawing pictures and pictographsEngaging in kinesthetic activityGenerating mental picturesMaking physical models
  • Digital camerasGraph Club softwareInspiration and Kidspiration softwareKid Pix software
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    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.
Roland Gesthuizen

COMP8440 - ANU - College of Engineering and Computer Science - 24 views

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    This course provides an overview of the historical and modern context and operation of free and open source software (FOSS) communities and associated software projects. The practical objective of the course is to teach students how they can begin to participate in a FOSS project in order to contribute to and improve aspects of the software that they feel are wrong. Students will learn some important FOSS tools and techniques for contributing to projects and how to set up their own FOSS projects.
Roland Gesthuizen

Comparison of Citation Software at MIT - Overview of Citation Software at MIT: Managing... - 74 views

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    Overview of Citation Software at MIT: Managing Your References. Endnote, RefWorks and Zotero
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    There's so many other options out there now...Mendeley, Qigga, etc.
Dan Lucier

Education Software for Schools: Free Software, Open Source | School Forge - 98 views

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    SchoolForge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for education. We advocate the use of open texts and lessons, open curricula, free software and open source in education.
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    An excellent resource for any educator looking to take advantage of free and open source software
Tracy Tuten

dokuwiki [DokuWiki] - 19 views

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

Candidate Educational Software Titles - 0 views

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    I'm collecting a running list of promising educational software titles to support higher-order thinking in middle school science classes.
Marty Daniel

Free video editing software list for all platforms. - 75 views

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    an annotated list of free and open source video editing software for different platforms
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    A great annotated list of free and open source video editing software for different platforms
nycliteracy

Interactive Whiteboards - 94 views

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      Great list to use as a starting point for potential uses!!
  • ideo files to teach a software application
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      I have the membership to Atomic Learning!
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  • Interactive Whiteboard Tutorials and Templates
  • Software to Download (Software to use as a class on an interactive whiteboard)
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    Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom: Tutorials, software to download, activities, links
Warren Apel

Capterra - Reviews of Scholastico Parent-Teacher Conference Software - 11 views

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    Capterra is a great way for school tech people to learn about new software, as well as read and write reviews of Ed Tech software they use.
Randolph Hollingsworth

National Center for Education Statistics, The Nation's Report Card: Writing 2011 - 2 views

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    Asa Spencer of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute writes in the Education Gadfly Weekly: "Traditionalists cringe, tech buffs rejoice: This latest NAEP writing assessment for grades eight and twelve marks the first computer-based appraisal (by the "nation's report card") of student proficiency in this subject. It evaluates students' writing skills (what NAEP calls both academic and workplace writing) based on three criteria: idea development, organization, and language facility and conventions. Results were predictably bad: Just twenty-four percent of eighth graders and 27 percent of twelfth graders scored proficient or above. Boys performed particularly poorly; half as many eighth-grade males reached proficiency as their female counterparts. The use of computers adds a level of complexity to these analyses: The software allows those being tested to use a thesaurus (which 29 percent of eighth graders exploited), text-to-speech software (71 percent of eighth graders used), spell check (three-quarters of twelfth graders), and kindred functions. It is unclear whether use of these crutches affected a student's "language facility" scores, though it sure seems likely. While this new mechanism for assessing kids' writing prowess makes it impossible to track trend data, one can make (disheartening) comparisons across subjects. About a third of eighth graders hit the NAEP proficiency benchmark in the latest science, math, and reading assessments, compared to a quarter for writing. So where to go from here? The report also notes that twelfth-grade students who write four to five pages a week score ten points higher than those who write just one page a week. Encouraging students to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) is a start."
Glenn Hervieux

Free Presentation Software that Engages | FlowVella - 77 views

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    Presentation software for Mac & iPad. Free for students - four free flows for others.
Glenn Hervieux

Use Google Chrome as a Free Voice Recognition Software with Dictation - 134 views

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    "Meet Dictation v2.0, a web-based speech recognition app that will transcribe your voice into digital text using the Chrome Speech API. You can also install Dictation as a Chrome App." I tried it and it works pretty well. No special software is needed, so it will run fine on a Chromebook.
Marc Patton

Educational K-12 Curriculum Courseware, Universal Screener Software, Summative Formativ... - 1 views

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    American Education Corporation (AEC) is a leading provider of research-based core curriculum instructional software for kindergarten through adult learners.
Jörgen Holmberg

Ladda ner | Infact - 3 views

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    Free software. Infact is a tool that offers similar possibilities as Prezi even though I don't find "infact" it as intuitive to use.
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    Free software. Infact is a tool that offers similar possibilities as Prezi even though I don't find "infact" it as intuitive to use.
Roland Gesthuizen

RTF/ODF-Scan for Zotero by Zotero-ODF-Scan - 1 views

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    "RTF/ODF-Scan for Zotero is an add-on for the Zotero reference manager software that allows users to insert citation markers into any document saved as .odt (e.g. by software such as google docs or Scrivener) and then convert those into active Zotero citations. It requires Zotero, LibreOffice and the Zotero LibreOffice plugin. "
Christian Howd

Kidtools.missouri.edu - Welcome to the KTSS Resource Site! - 42 views

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    The KidTools software is made for children to support their success in school, home, and community. The software provides two programs to help students. KidTools helps students with behaviors by targeting behaviors, to change, making behavior plans, following agreements, and self-monitoring. KidSkills helps students get organized, learn new information and pass tests, plan to get homework done, and work on projects with other students.
Ed Webb

Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats by AP: Yahoo! Tech - 0 views

  • Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children's chat messages — and sell the marketing data gathered.
  • Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other services, and send back data on what kids are saying about such things as movies, music or video games. The information is then offered to businesses seeking ways to tailor their marketing messages to kids.
  • a separate data-mining service called Pulse that taps into the data gathered by Sentry software to give businesses a glimpse of youth chatter online. While other services read publicly available teen chatter, Pulse also can read private chats. It gathers information from instant messages, blogs, social networking sites, forums and chat rooms.
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  • Parents who don't want the company to share their child's information to businesses can check a box to opt out. But that option can be found only by visiting the company's Web site, accessible through a control panel that appears after the program has been installed. It was not in the agreement contained in the Sentry Total Home Protection program The Associated Press downloaded and installed Friday.
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