Tools

= = = = =|offline marketing Tools for Universal Interventions=
 * Reading and Writing Supports: Screen Readers and Text to Speech
 * Spelling Supports
 * Vocabulary Supports
 * Fun with Words
 * Concept Maps and Graphic Organizers (opens new page)
 * Collaboration Tools (opens new page)
 * Numbers, Graphing and Mathematics Tools (opens new page)

Reading & Writing Supports: Screen Readers & Text to Speech
[|ReadPlease] – www.readplease.com; [|Natural Voice Reader] for Windows – www.naturalreaders.com [|WordTalk] for all versions of Windows MS Word www.wordtalk.org.uk/ [|Text2Speech] www.adamberent.com/Text2Speech.html [|Speaktext] www.speaktext.com/index.htm works with Vista, convert text to speech and export into Mp3 [|Power Reader] www.projectpossibility.org/viewProject.php?id=1 Graphic Interactive Text Reader for Windows using plain text only. [|CLiCK Speak Bundle] clickspeak.clcworld.net/ open source, freely available extension for the Firefox web browser [|FireVox] firevox.clcworld.net/ Screenreader designed for Firefox [|VozMe] insert tool into browser or add to web page select text to read vozme.com/ [|Audio Pal] www.audiopal.com/ free tool to add audio bar into a browser [|WebAnywhere] webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/wa.php non-visual interface for the web that can be accessed on any public computer to read web pages. [|BrowseAloud] www.browsealoud.com/ allows all browsealoud enabled web pages to be read [|Free OCR] www.free-ocr.com/ upload a file (jpg, gif, 1 page pdf) and have it converted to text [|Spoken Text] spokentext.net/ upload ANY document & Spoken text will create audio recordings

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Spelling Supports
[|Click N’ Type’] s word prediction and keyboard with scanning option – www.lakefolks.org/cnt/ [|Ginger Software] www.gingersoftware.com A new type of spelling checker. It corrects multiple spelling mistakes at once. [|Ghotit Context Spell Check] www.ghotit.com [|LetmeType] www.clasohm.com/lmt/en/ Autocomplete for applications beyond office. [|Writing Sample Analyzer] –bluecentauri.com/tools/writer/sample.php word counts, paragraph analysis

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Vocabulary Supports
[|WordWeb] wordweb.info/free/ vocabulary in your toolbar and use with any application [|Visuwords] www.visuwords.com/ online graphic dictionary Creates a Visual graphic organizer for a word. [|The Visual Dictionary] www.infovisual.com [|WordSmyth] new.wordsmyth.net [|Word of the Day] dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday

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Fun with Words
[|Wordle] www.wordle.net/ Create word clouds of a series of related words [|Spell with Flickr] metaatem.net/words/ Create a banner with letters in different patterns [|Cool Text] cooltext.com/ Text and graphics generator [|BeFunky] www.befunky.com add a special effect to a photo [|Shape Collage] www.shapecollage.com create a collage with photos [|BigHugeLabs] bighugelabs.com/ have fun with digital images to make posters, color palettes, & more [|DaFont] www.dafont.com/ free funky and fun fonts express yourself with letter shapes [|Spezify] www.spezify.com a search engine that provides links with pictures, and objects

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