dvises
teaching staff on emerging technology that engage
students and support pedagogies, helping staff to
develop e-learning content and skills, promoting
assistive technologies to assist learning.
Neil's Top 10 Tools as at
16 April 2009
- Wink - Free -
Brilliant screen capture tool that’s simple to use. Produces
great results.
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Snippy - Free - Nice, quick and easy little tool for
quickly capturing sections of screen in either freehand or
rectangle.
- eXe - Free - Easy
to use SCORM content packager that can create websites also.
Has a few built in features that are useful and can be
expanded further.
- Moviemaker
- Free - Foolproof way of producing videos, just add
imagination.
- iTunes - Free -
Do I need to explain… Excellent podcast aggregating tool
with a library of content waiting to be explored
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AccessApps - It’s free, it provides a wealth of
assistive tools to support a variety of disabilities and
difficulties. It is designed to be installed and used from a
USB stick.
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Dasher - Free - An excellent example of the amazing
assistive technology that’s available. Why should people
have to develop strategies to cope with and use technologies
when there is help available. And free help at that
- Google Search -
Free - Has to be my #1. I ask and it replies. Brilliant and
getting better by the day.
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Dragon Naturally Speaking - £££ - Expensive but very
good. Save time on typing, operate you computer by voice
command. Excellent for those with dyslexia
- Dreamweaver
- £££ - The best web editor on the market, period.
