Califone's MP3 Player/Recorder
Guest Reviewer Jamie Welch (Grade 7) Assistant Reviewer Jordan Welch (Grade 3), 10/29/08
Califone's MP3 player is a great choice for classroom or home use because of its durability, ease of use, and battery life. Features such as large buttons, Volume Limit, and Battery Save make it a perfect product for preschool and elementary-age children.
Sparking Creativity
Dr. Merle Marsh, 10/10/08
Put a design studio that include tools for drawing, photo editing, Web site creating, and desktop publishing into your classroom computers. Serif Design Suite offers all the graphic tools you'll need to get your students creating.
Creating Great Teachers
Diane S. Kendall, 09/11/2008
Every school district is interested in helping their teachers become the best they can be. Good teachers are the key to student learning, and that's what Teachscape XL is all about. It's an online program that offers teachers a special place to explore great teaching methods and to collaborate with others in their learning.
Funky Fun: Plasq's Comic Life Magiq
Diane S. Kendall, 06/04/2008
Called the quantum evolution of Comic Life software, Comic Life Magiq retains the ease and creativity of Comic Life and combines it with a host of options including photo and text editing, templates, props, balloons, and spray cans. Using the software is great fun and the results can be serious, funky, crazy, and even beautiful—it depends on your mood or what you want to produce.
The Pokemon Learning League
Diane S. Kendall, 05/13/2008
The Pokemon Learning League is an online suite of lessons for grades 3-6 that may have just the hook you need to help reinforce your student’s math, science and language arts understanding and skills - at home or at school.
Charge of the Hexbugs
Dr. Merle Marsh, 04/15/2008
Innovation First, Inc., a place to travel online for robotic equipment, now brings us the intriguing Hexbugs, little six-legged robots designed to get creative thinking and fund-raising for robotics flowing. With their sensor feelers and noise recognition software, these bugs are a hit in classrooms and homes.
Kidspiration: Visual Learning for Grades K-5
Dr. Merle Marsh, 04/02/2008
Inspiration's Kidspiration 3 provides even more ways for students to put visual learning to work in their studies. This version features what's called a cross curricular visual workspace that makes learning fun. Besides adding to the resources already available in previous versions of Kidspiration, Version 3 brings hands-on type mathematics activities to the classroom.
Read & Write Gold Is Solid
Diane S. Kendall, 03/03/2008
Read & Write Gold seamlessly puts many of the best assistive technology tools together in a word processor interface making it perfect for students struggling with a variety of learning difficulties.
BookFLIX by Scholastic
Dr. Merle Marsh, Guest Columnist, 01/25/2008
Scholastic's BookFLIX is a terrific online program that brings the joy of reading to children in Grades Kindergarten through Three. It features readings of fictional storybooks and non-fiction ebooks along with games for the kids and teacher materials for educators.
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