Desktop Maker

Product Type:

Device modifier

Manufacturer Name:

Approximate Cost: $49.00

Desktop Maker enables users to create customized desktops that launch Windows programs for students with special needs.

Main Features:

Skills introduced: Scanning and Choice Making.
Selecting a Windows program to run is accomplished by step scanning, timed scanning or by clicking on the program with the mouse or touch screen.
Allows users to create an unlimited number of different customized desktops.
A customized desktop can contain anywhere from 2 to 20 programs to launch.
It does not change the user's current Windows desktop.
The program runs above the user's current desktop and when the user exits Desktop Maker their original desktop appears.
It can be used to launch any program, not just Judy Lynn Software programs.
Small icons are replaced with large graphic images.
Users can incorporate auditory scanning by either associating a sound (wave) file or synthesized speech with the program.
Only the choices defined for the customized desktop are displayed.
Different forms of scanning can be used to launch a program.
Launching a program can be performed with 1 or 2 switches, a touch screen, a mouse, or the keyboard.
Scan settings are saved with each customized desktop.

Available in these configurations:

CD (can be installed on one computer at a time).
Classroom License CD (can be installed on an unlimited number of computers as long as they are in the same physical classroom).