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Module V Integrating Digital Media and Education Software Applications Assistive Technology 1. Clicker: Created by Crick Software, Clicker is an easy-to-use and powerful writing and multimedia tool that enables students to write with words, phrases, or pictures. Clicker can be integrated to support any area of the curriculum. 2. Accessibility Tools for Clicker: Clicker Software is switch accessible and also has a product available called Penfriend, which is an on-screen keyboard. Clicker products have won several awards for being quality special needs software. 3. Apple’s iLife :Apple’s iLife suite contains the easy-to-use integrated applications of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand, and the latest version of iTunes. Students can create their own music, edit their own video projects, add creative transitions and titles for closed caption, and much more. 4. Video Edit Magic: Video Edit Magic makes capturing video, editing on the timeline, and assembling a movie very easy for all students with its drag-and-drop capabilities. Students can create their own masterpiece by adding professional scene transitions, background music, titles for closed captions, and more. 5. GeeThree’s Slick Caption: Slick Caption is an easy-to-use titling program. Creating text files for your videos can add to the content and make the videos more creative. Also, for use by students with disabilities. Text can be imported or typed directly in the program. 6. The National Center for Accessible Media’s MAGpie: MAGpie allows developers of Web and CD based multimedia users the ability to create closed captions and audio descriptors for Quicktime, Real or Windows media files; this makes their material accessible to persons with disabilities. 7. National Center for Accessible Media: National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is an organization dedicated to research and development of the issues of media and information technology for persons with disabilities in their homes, schools, workplaces, and communities. 8. Vcom3d: Vcom3d has created signing Avatars, animated characters which use sign language. They have also developed technology and custom software solutions for education, training, deaf education, simulation, and communications. 9. Sign Smith Studio: The easy to use Sign Studio authoring tool allows educators, instructional system designers, and anyone who creates Web, CD-ROM, DVD, or kiosk content to bring the magic of characters that communicate through sign language to digital media.