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AccessApps
is an initiative supported by the JISC
Regional Support Centres (RSC) and JISC
TechDis and consists of over 60 open source
and freeware Windows applications, running
from a USB stick. AccessApps provides a
range of solutions to support writing,
reading and planning as well as sensory,
cognitive and physical difficulties. |
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Audacity®
is free, open source software for recording
and editing sounds. |
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CamStudio
is able to record all screen and audio
activity on your computer and create
industry-standard AVI video files and using
its built-in SWF Producer can turn those
AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly
Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) |
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The
Charity Technology
Exchange supplies software
and hardware, which has been donated by
major suppliers, for a small administration
fee.
Example: Microsoft® Office 2010
Professional Plus @ £20+VAT |
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Doodle
is ideal if you are trying to plan a meeting
or event and want to offer a range of dates
/ times to people to see who is available
when. It also integrates with Microsoft
Outlook.
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eBeam Interactive
Whiteboards - dual purpose;
use as an electronic flipchart or to add
interactivity to PowerPoint presentations.
PC/laptop and digital projector needed.
Contact Us for completive prices
to provide and install. |
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Eventbrite
(FREE) allows you to create a professional
looking event page and customize it with
colours, logos, images, personalized URL and
lets attendees easily register or buy
tickets online for your event. |
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The eXe project
is developing a freely available Open Source
authoring application to assist teachers and
academics in the publishing of web content
without the need to become proficient in
HTML or XML mark-up. Resources authored in
eXe can be exported in IMS Content Package,
SCORM 1.2, or IMS Common Cartridge formats
or as simple self-contained web pages. |
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The
flip
video camera is a compact High Definition
(HD) video camera for use in the learning
sector including 'recording evidence'.
The Flip Ultra HD 3rd Generation offers 120
minutes recording, 8GB Memory & Image
Stabilisation for about £150 from Amazon. |
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Create and share your
work online with
Google Docs
- Upload your files from your desktop:
It's easy to get started and it's free!
- Access anywhere: Edit and view your
docs from any computer or smart phone
- Share your work: Real-time
collaboration means work gets done more
quickly.
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GoToMeeting™
allows organisations to hold online meetings
with up to 15 participants. Available
through Charity Technology Exchange for
£32+VAT/year (RRP £276+VAT/year) |
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The
Hot Potatoes™
suite includes six applications, enabling
you to create interactive multiple-choice,
short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword,
matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for
the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not
freeware, but it is free of charge
for those working for publicly-funded
non-profit-making educational institutions,
who make their pages available on the web. |
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livescribe Smartpens
a clever device for students
and teachers, or anyone else who has to take lots of notes;
makes an audio and digital copy of your
notes and drawings.
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MailChimp -
helps you design email newsletters, share
them on social networks, integrate with
services you already use, and track your
results. FREE for up to 2,000 users.
We have used it for members to
sign up and
for us to send e-newsletters. |
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Moodle
is a course management system (CMS) - FREE, Open Source software package designed
using sound pedagogical principles, to help
educators create effective online learning
communities. You can download and use it on
any computer you have handy (including
webhosts), yet it can scale from a
single-teacher site to a University with
200,000 students. |
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Microsoft®
Office Live
- provides a comprehensive suite of 'cloud'
computing services, including document
storage and collaboration. |
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Microsoft®
Photo Story 3 for Windows -
turn pictures into a story and add
background music, can be used in
presentations or put on your website.
FREE DOWNLOAD |
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The
Institute For Learning (IfL) promotes a CPD
model based on reflective practice and is
committed to working with colleges and other
providers to ensure teachers are able to
engage in professional development. The
CPD portal
provides a suite of tools to support
teachers in this. |
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RoboBraille
is an e-mail service which can convert
digital text documents into either Braille
or audio files. |
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SimDis
-
This site contains a collection of
computer based artefacts that
simulate aspects of disability. It
is intended that the simulations
will be used for training and
awareness raising activities with
staff and for teaching students in
areas where an understanding of
disability is required.
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SlideShare
- is the world's largest FREE community for
sharing presentations. Upload and share your
content on Social Media sites or embed into
a web-page. |
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SMOG
(simplified measure of gobbledygook) is a
formula that gives a readability level for
written material. Readability is an attempt
to match the reading level of written
material to the "reading with understanding"
level of the reader.
Use can also
download
a FREE guide from NIACE. |
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Snippy
- How often have you carefully selected some
text from a Web page and copied it to an
email message? Snippy makes this a snap!
Simply click on the little Snippy icon in
the taskbar, and mark out the region of the
screen that you want to copy - that's it,
you're done! The cut-out image will now be
in your clipboard, and you can paste it in
another application. FREE DOWNLOAD |
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TeacherTube
- is an online community for sharing
instructional videos, filling a need for a
more educationally focused, safe venue for
teachers, schools, and home learners. It
provides anytime, anywhere professional
development with teachers teaching teachers.
In addition, teachers can post videos
designed for students to view in order to
learn a concept or skill. |
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Teachit Timer
- Everyone needs a timer sometimes in class
– use it on screen or projected for
starters, timed activities, group work or
games. You can even choose your final alert
sound - a whistle, a gong, a dog barking ...
and more ... See
Teachit.co.uk
for other handy tools. |
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Turning Point Student
Voting System - add
interactivity to your learning delivery and
involve all your learners, collect
information for 'happy sheets', save data
for your CPD.
Contact Us for completive prices
to provide and install. |
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Xerte
is a fully-featured e-learning development
environment for creating rich interactivity.
Xerte is aimed at developers of interactive
content who will create sophisticated
content with some scripting, and Xerte can
be used to extend the capabilities of Xerte
Online Toolkits with new tools for content
authors. |
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XPERT (Xerte
Public E-learning ReposiTory) project is a
JISC funded project to explore the potential
of delivering and supporting a distributed
repository of e-learning resources created
and seamlessly published through the open
source e-learning development tool called
Xerte Online Toolkits. Learners and
educators can use XPERT to search a growing
database of open learning resources suitable
for students at all levels of study in a
wide range of different subjects. |
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VoiceThread
is a collaborative, multimedia slide show
that holds images, documents, and videos and
allows people to navigate slides and leave
comments in 5 ways - using voice, text,
audio file, or video (via a webcam). You can
also share a VoiceThread with friends,
students, and colleagues for them to record
comments too.
Example |
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Zoomerang
is the best value online survey / poll
service we could find. Automatically
produces analysis and graphs of results.
Pricing from FREE with 25% discount for
charities for paid plans.
The Suffolk Learning Consortium has a
Zoomerang Pro account.
Contact Us
if you would like us to produce a survey /
poll and resultant report for a small
administration fee of £25. |
