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are Internet-connected courses taught at Southern University. Instructors
use a variety of distance learning platforms to deliver and/or enhance
the courses. The links to the platforms can be accessed on the CourseNotes website.
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sites that will help prepare you to study.
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Accessibility is a general term
used to describe the degree to which a system is usable
by as many people as possible without modification. It
is not to be confused with usability
which is used to describe how easily a thing can be used
by any type of user. One meaning of accessibility specifically
focuses on people with
disabilities and their use of assistive devices such as
screen-reading web browsers or wheelchairs.
Accessibility is strongly related to universal design in that it is about making
things as accessible as possible to as wide a group of
people as possible. However, products marketed as having
benefited from a Universal Design process are often actually
the same devices customized specifically for use by people
with disabilities. This includes software. Below is a list
of links to open source software applications that can
be used by people with special needs in virtual learning
environments.
Click
here for the definition of accessibility
 Links
to accessibility software |
| Name |
Use |
Website |
| PowerTalk
1.2.10 |
PowerTalk automatically speaks Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. Designed for
those with difficulty speaking or an audience containing
people with visual impairments. Uses standard synthesised
computer speech provided with Windows (SAPI 5.1). |
Fullmeasure |
| pVoice
2.1 |
pVoice is an application for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).Disabled
people who cannot speak and have very little possibilities
to operate a computer can use pVoice by selecting photo's
or symbols to generate speech output. |
pVoice Software |
| savetext 1.0 |
The SaveText actionbar plugin is meant to save text that you create with pVoice. |
pVoice Software |
| retrievetext 1.0 |
The RetrieveText theme plugin is meant to retrieve texts that you saved with
the SaveText plugin. After installation, you can create
a new theme in the Edit window, where you can select
'[Plugin]: RetrieveText' from the 'Theme types' list.
After leaving editmode, you can navigate to this new
theme and you'll see a list of most recently saved
texts, which can be selected to let pVoice pronounce
it again. |
pVoice Software |
| pStory |
pStory is a spin-off of pVoice and enables disabled people to read and/or listen
to books. |
pVoice Software |
| Dasher
4.0.2 |
An information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous
pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry
system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used. |
Dasher Project |
| Browsealoud |
Browsealoud reads web pages aloud for people who find it difficult to read online
who might have literacy and visual impairments. |
Browsealoud |
| List
of Assistive Technology and Accessibility Software |
Text to Speech Programs; Magnification Software; Web Browsing, E-Mail, and
Internet; Dictation Software; Multimedia; Miscellaneous;
TTY/Telephone/Telecommunications; Scanners; Braille Embossers/Displays;
Alternative Input Systems. |
 List was developed and is hosted by Oklahoma State University |
| SpeakFreely |
A 100% software-based VoIP phone |
SpeakFreely |
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There
are three primary ways in which humans interact which are
conversational interaction, transactional interaction,
and collaborative
interaction. In collaborative interactions the main function
of the participants' relationship is to alter a collaboration
entity (i.e., the converse of transactional). The collaboration
entity is in a relatively unstable form. Examples include
the development of an idea, the creation of a design, the
achievement of a shared goal. Therefore, real collaboration
technologies deliver the functionality for many participants
to augment a common deliverable. Record or document management,
threaded discussions, audit history, and other mechanisms
designed to capture the efforts of many into a managed content
environment are typical of collaboration technologies.
Collaborative software or groupware is defined as computer-based systems that
support groups of people engaged in a common task (or goal)
and that provide an interface to a shared environment.
Click
here for the definition of collaborative software.
| Links
to collaborative software |
| Name |
Type |
Website |
| List
of Collaborative Software |
Open source, free, and proprietary software. |
Wikipedia's list of collaborative software |
| Box.net |
Free Online Storage |
Box.net |
| ajaxWrite |
ajaxWrite is a web-based word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word
and other standard document formats |
ajaxWrite.com |
| PBWiki |
PeanutButterWiki or pbwiki is a free, password-protected commercial wiki farm
run by David Weekly. |
PeanutButterWiki |
| My
Office |
Free online alternative to Microsoft Office |
ThinkFree.com |
| Free office suite |
A multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source
project. Compatible with all other major office suites,
the product is free to download, use, and distribute. |
OpenOffice.org |
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