The Web Catcher » Keyboard http://webcatcher.edublogs.org Capturing the best educational web sites for kids of all abilities Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:29:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 GhostReader from ConvenienceWare http://webcatcher.edublogs.org/2007/10/15/convenienceware/ http://webcatcher.edublogs.org/2007/10/15/convenienceware/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:00:24 +0000 K. Haugen http://webcatcher.edublogs.org/2007/10/15/convenienceware/ GhostReader (formerly TextParrot) reads text aloud with high quality voices and optional word-by-word highlighting. From  ConvenienceWare, a part of AssistiveWare, which makes more fully featured accessibility software and utilities for people with disabilities

]]> http://webcatcher.edublogs.org/2007/10/15/convenienceware/feed/ 0 Magnetic Numbers http://webcatcher.edublogs.org/2007/09/29/magnetic-numbers/ http://webcatcher.edublogs.org/2007/09/29/magnetic-numbers/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:50:04 +0000 K. Haugen http://webcatcher.edublogs.org/2007/09/29/magnetic-numbers/ Like its companion Magnetic Letters, Magnetic Numbers is a simple, open-ended place to explore numbers. Simply click or type to place an endless supply of numbers and operators on the screen, then move them around to order them, create equations, or just explore.

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Youngest users can simply explore. For older little ones, challenge them to make new words from old ones, find rhyming words and more.

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