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Disclaimer
Please read the Disclaimer before using this page:
Graphics & Animation
- Artweaver
Artweaver is a free painting program (as opposed to drawing.)
It uses simulated brush strokes etc.
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- Adventure Maker
This is a freeware program that allows you to create graphical point-and-click adventure games.
You can import your own photos to make virtual tours, learning games, interactive presentations etc.
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- Camstudio
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create AVI video files. Some of the video tutorials on this site were made with Camstudio.
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- Irfanview
An image viewer that allows you to crop, resize, rotate and add effects to your digital photos. Also has a thumbnail viewer and can create html thumbnail pages to display digital images on your website.
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- Kerpoof
This online tool allows learners to create pictures, animations, cards and graphical stories. It is free to use the basic tools, and the creations can be saved online. This site does feature “Safe Chat” but this isn’t available in the free tools. Do consider eSafety if you want to use the sharing facility.
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- Microsoft Photo Story 3
Take digital photos, add sounds, music and text, stick them all together and create a digital story. An excellent cross-curricular resource.
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- MWSnap
This Snaps a screenshots straight into the clipboard. This is an excellent way to create images for web sites as you can snap a screenshot at a chosen size. Also good for creating user guide documentation. Also does lots of other things and what The Lens (below) does but isn't as nice looking...
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- Paint.net
Designed to be familiar to those who know Windows Paint, this is a free powerful image editor which supports layers, effects and other tools.
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- Powerbullet Presenter
This is a freeware program for creating multimedia Flash presentations, which can include graphics, text and sound. The results can be used as a standalone presentation or as part of a webpage.
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- Stick Figure Animator
This is a great little program that allows the user to animate a stick man. It is a really good way of teaching the concepts of animation.
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- Stop Motion Animator
This is a free program with which you can make stop-motion animations, for example clay models or paper cut-outs. It works with a webcam or other direct-to-computer video source. Your software allows you to capture lots of individual images and then it stiches them all together into a movie file.
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- Windows Movie Maker: This
comes as part of Windows XP onwards. It’s worth getting the most
recent version. It allows you to edit movies, record soundtracks and
save the result.
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Karaoke
 Van Basco’s Karaoke Player
Very useful in assemblies to display the words of songs on the screen. Also a great success in the classroom during wet play. Turn your PC, projector and board into a karaoke machine!- Karafun
Another free karaoke player.
Learning Games & Software
- Alice
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing.
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- Bamzooki
Based on the CBBC programme, the Bamzooki site lets you download software in order to make ‘zooks’ – imaginary creatures. These can be uploaded to the BBC website to compete against other zooks in various challenges.
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- Cook It (E2BN)
A great cooking website which includes CookIt Creator – create your own multimedia kitchen!
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- G-Compris
This is a free educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 - 10, covering many different subject areas. There are over 100 different activities in the suite.
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- Klik n Play
Klik and Play is an object oriented programming environment, free for use in school activities. Simple games can be easily created by absolute beginners.
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Poissonrouge has extended its offering support for older pupils learning French:
or EAL pupils learning English:
Both sites are currently offered free online to schools, but the designers ask that schools support them by buying T-shirts and in time other resources from
There is more information about Poissonrouge at:
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- Scratch:
Scratch is a simple programming language aimed at children 8 yrs and up. It allows you to create interactive stories, animations, games music and art.
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Podcasting Software
 Audacity
Fully featured audio editor used to record and edit podcasts and other PC based sound recordings.- Doppler
This is a free podcast receiver. Use it to subscribe to and download podcasts to your PC.
- Freeplay Music
Apple’s library of music that you can use free for educational purposes. Great for background music and jingles etc in your podcasts! This use should not include publishing multimedia, content on a Learning Platform / VLE or podcasts featuring music from these sites on the internet or emailed outside the school environment.
- iTunes
This is a free podcast receiver. Use it to subscribe to and download podcasts to your PC.
 Juice
This is a free podcast receiver. Use it to subscribe to and download podcasts to your PC.
- Lame MP3 Encoder
If you are using Audacity to create MP3 files you will need an MP3 encoder such as LAME to be able to encode higher quality files.
- Levelator
Use to ‘master’ a podcast recording or other PC based sound recording. This program adjusts the overall sound levels to ‘level’ the peaks and troughs.
- Find out more about Podcasting...
Productivity
 OpenOffice.org 3
OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It can read and write files from other common office software packages.
Special Educational Needs
- SenSwitcher
Switch accessible sensory software.
- SenTeacher resources
A whole page of downloadable activities, many of which would work well on an interactive whiteboard and would be equally useful in mainstream.
Teachers’ Tools
- Teachers’ Report Assistant
Report Assistant lets you collect and download comment banks which can be used in any word processor.
- Hot Potatoes
Create multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises. Please note: “Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence.”
- Easy Test Maker
Online generator of multiple-choice, matching, fill-in-the-blank, short answer and T/F questions.
- The Lens
This is a program to magnify part of the screen - a magnifying glass to be precise. It's 'skinnable' - which means there are different colours and styles for the magnifying glass that you can download if you don't like brown and beige... you can use the plus and minus on the glass to zoom in and out...
Video Conferencing
 Flashmeeting (E2BN)
Use a webcam and your PC to video-conference for free using E2BN’s Flashmeeting. This is a web-based conferencing tool that also allows you to text-chat, vote, use emoticons and send URLs. - Polycom PVX Demo
This is the demo version of Polycom’s PVX video-conferencing software. This demo version limits calls to 5 minutes.
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