Freebies
E-BOOKS ACTIVITIES SOFTWARE TUTORIALS HANDOUTS TEMPLATES
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Cars (PowerPoint)
Colors and Shapes (PowerPoint)
Community Helpers (PowerPoint)
Eency Wency Spider (PowerPoint)
First Grade Dolch Words (Zips: Sets 1-7; Sets 8-14; Sets 15-20; Sets 21-27; Sets 28-33)
Look! Look! How Many Do You See? (PowerPoint)
Louisiana (PowerPoint)
Nursery Rhymes (PowerPoint)
Our Solar System-Low (wmv)
Our Solar System-High (wmv)
Our Trip t the Zoo (PowerPoint)
Our Trip to the Zoo w/prompts (PowerPoint)
Santa, Santa, What's in your Bag? (PowerPoint)
Sharing with Friends (Exe)
Summer is Here (PowerPoint)
TechnoAbility Website (A collection of talking books for younger and older students. Instructions for creating your own PowerPoint books.)
Talking Book Library Website (Has many talking books listed by subject and grade level.)
SET-BC (Has a collection of teacher and student-made books and extension activities.)
BoardMaker (BoardMaker is required to open these files.)
Nouns Bingo
Visual Support Activities (Adapted from Susan Stokes)
PocketMods
Writing with Symbols (Writing with Symbols is required to open these files. Open program first, then open file.)
Smart Poem Worksheet - Simplified
Smart Poem Worksheet - Higher
A free program that enables you to control the mouse pointer on your computer screen just by moving your head. All you need is a standard USB webcam and a Windows computer.
This is free onscreen keyboard software with word prediction and dwell selection.
Tons of games and educational software to download that are free.
Uses satellite imagery and maps to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips and makes learning fun.
Free interactive financial-literacy curriculum for grades 4 - 12 and adults.
HearWho.com is an online web application that will work with your internet browser. Automatically turn any text into speech so you can listen to it, when you have time.
Free "goodies" for Intellitools Classroom Suite, My Own Bookshelf and Clicker 5.
Natural Reader is a Text to Speech software with natural sounding voices. This easy to use software can convert any written text such as MS Word, Webpage, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words. NaturalReader can also convert any written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV for your CD player or iPod.
Photo Story 3 includes features that enable you to create a slideshow with your digital pictures, edit your pictures, create your story with original music, add narration, and share them with your family and friends.
The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card. It is hard to describe just how incredibly useful the PocketMod is. It's best that you just dive in and create one.
This is a free onscreen virtual mouse that allows anyone with a disability control a computer.
PowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.
Reads any text you see on your screen - all purpose text-to-speech software.
This is free software from Deafblind Online. This software allows you to make slideshows, e-books, and videos for use with one or two switches. You can also use a mouse for activation. There are 52 activities that can be downloaded. (You might have to change some of them because this program is from the UK).
Free software that allows users to talk, instant message, transfer files and video conference with other Skype users. Skype empowers students and teachers even further by adding features for collaboration, live video and instant file sharing.
WordTalk is a free plug-in developed for use with all versions of Microsoft Word (from Word 97 upwards), which can help people with reading difficulties use Microsoft Word more effectively. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictionary to help decide which word spelling is most appropriate. It sits neatly in your toolbar and is highly configurable, allowing you to adjust the highlight colors, the voice and the speed of the speech.
Microsoft Word
Highlighting (2003) Flash
Zooming (2003) Flash
AutoSummarizing (2003) Flash
Readability Statistics (2003) Flash
Visual Changes (2003) PDF
AutoSummarizing (2003) PDF
Readability Statistics (2003) PDF
Creating Fill in the Blank Questions (2003) PDF
Speech Recognition in Word (2003) PDF
Using Autotext to Create Picture Toolbars (2003) PDF
Symbol Processors
Writing With Symbols Tutorial PDF
Overview of Symbol Processors PDF
Mapping Software
BoardMaker and SDPro
Functional Overlays with SDPro
Classroom Suite
Accessible Activities using Classroom Suite PDF
PowerPoint: Not Just for Presentations
Reading Guides (These files were
created in Excel and may need to be adjusted to your printer.
These were printed on transparencies and the colors can be changed.)
Reading Guide Templates (This file is a template to create your own reading guides using cardstock and colored transparency folders.
Pringles Can (These files were created in Excel . Look at the bottom of the Excel Sheet to see to cover sheet and the facts sheet)
