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"The free software, called simply Stage, is an iOS app that provides document camera features and annotation capabilities. It uses the iPad's camera to capture live video and provides video output via wired connections to projectors or external displays or wireless connections via AirPlay. It also includes a label function for placing overlays over videos and a drawing function that allows users to annotate over the live video."

"WritePad is an advanced notetaker app that lets you to take notes in your own handwriting, which is immediately converted to the digital text using PhatWare's state-of-the-art handwriting recognition software. You can also use simple gestures to select text, cut, copy, paste, and insert special characters. "

One of the hottest topics in educational technology today has to be mobile content creation. With the rise of the tablet, particularly the iPad, K12 and adult students are eager for opportunities to learn just-in-time with their device of choice. Apple's January 2012 announcement of digital textbooks and a teacher-friendly iBook authoring software has pushed the conversation around eBooks to the forefront of the educational landscape.

"Adapro is a customisable multi-user word processor originally geared towards users with a learning disability or developmental disorder, such as dyslexia or autism. Building on its assistive features and emphasis on hiding interface complexities, it aims to cater a wider audience that values ease of use over functionality. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. Supports English, Spanish and Portuguese. If Java 6 or higher is already present on the computer, it doesn't even require installation. So, why don't give it a try?"

Sue Center is a communication environment designed specifically for people who cannot use a keyboard or mouse. It could be described as an 'on-screen keyboard' but it is much more than that. With an ordinary computer, a special low-cost input device, and this free software you can:

Our name, Connective Technology Solutions, reflects what we do best - seeing the connections between hardware, software, and solutions on how they can be utilized together. Most important is how they can address the needs of individuals from teachers and support professionals to students. We provide professional development, training, support and educational materials connecting current technology and the solutions enabling everyone to succeed. Dan Herlihy is a national conference presenter on topics ranging from Creating Access on the Fly, Working with High and Low Incidence Disabilities, Creating Access to the Arts and Using Digital Images in the Classroom as a Teaching and Learning Tool. He is also an IntelliTools Training Specialist, and has written books and articles on technology integration, as well as producing CDs of educational activities for students. His expertise is in taking diverse technologies, and connecting them together to provide solutions for access.

Achieve Tablet lets readers be themselves, as well as part of a crowd, with a mobile, text-to-speech device that looks great on any desk and fits in any bag. With touch-screen and gesture-based scrolling, page turning, and zooming, readers can succeed in totally new and intuitive ways. Capturing text is as easy as taking a picture with the Tablet's camera. Then reading happens with synchronized text highlighting and audio playback. With Achieve Tablet, readers can also download Achieve Software for Windows* or Mac* and turn a school or home desktop or laptop into a full-blown digital library.

"The Assistive Technology Oral History Project is an archive of pioneers in the field of assistive technology (technology for individuals with disabilities). It includes the histories of assistive technology (AT) specialists including occupational therapists, physical therapists, experts in blind and low vision, special educators, audiologists, rehabilitation engineers, software and AT device inventors, and more. "

"Below is an extensive list of AT freeware and shareware programs along with a few of the more modestly priced ones. These programs are designed to make interacting with a computer easier."

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

"The Center reviewed an array of software products and digital materials currently used to develop or distribute elementary and secondary instructional materials. The purpose of the review was to identify the extent to which product developers or publishers offered readily discoverable and publicly available information about product accessibility. Using the Section 508 standards for physical and sensory access as a benchmark, the Center has color coded products green, yellow, or red. "

"This eBook will highlight why, as an administrator, your planning must go beyond buying the hardware. It's not about the software or apps used, or even the type of device. It's about understanding how the technology can help educators advance students to reach their fullest potential. "

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"Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online reading comprehension software. It helps people understand difficult English faster, and helps them learn words in new ways. See the yellow box at the top of the page? Just paste in a difficult English sentence, paragraph, or more, or enter a web page URL and click the button. You'll instantly see an easier version, for fast understanding now. No dictionary needed! Plus, the easier version is specially highlighted to help build vocabulary."

"No complex setup, no user calibration, no special applications to develop. Connect any projector and Kinect to your Windows 8 PC Start Ubi software Let Ubi automatically calibrate your environment Your projected display is now a touch screen."

"The Lexile ® measure of text is determined using the Lexile Analyzer ®, a software program that evaluates the reading demand-or readability-of books, articles and other materials. The Lexile Analyzer ® measures the complexity of the text by breaking down the entire piece and studying its characteristics, such as sentence length and word frequency, which represent the syntactic and semantic challenges that the text presents to a reader. The outcome is the text complexity, expressed as a Lexile ® measure, along with information on the word count, mean sentence length and mean log frequency. "

"SunCastle Technology offers Slater Software products such as PixWriter, Picture It, Simply Science and Read and Tell... with a little spin."

ewordify.com is powerful, free, online reading comprehension and vocabulary development software. It helps people understand difficult English faster, helps them learn words in new ways, and helps teachers create high-interest learning materials from any English text passage.

"ewordify.com is powerful, free, online reading comprehension and vocabulary development software. It helps people understand difficult English faster, helps them learn words in new ways, and helps teachers create high-interest learning materials from any English text passage. See the yellow box at the top of the page? Just paste in a difficult English sentence, paragraph, or more, or enter a web page URL and click the button. You'll instantly see an easier version, for fast understanding now. No dictionary needed! Plus, the easier version is specially highlighted to help build vocabulary."

"KanPlan is a task management system for kids and teenagers, it helps kids visualize and manage their tasks and homework using a mobile device. KanPlan teaches kids a workflow process based on Kanban, an AGILE and visual methodology used in the software engineering industry to manage projects. This methodology has been simplified and made fun, easy and pleasant for kids to use everyday. KanPlan can be used as a standalone mobile application, or as a collaborative system with parents, family members, friends and teachers.