Archive for April, 2009

FREE! BuzzWord by Adobe

29th April 2009 by LisaHill 2 Comments

Subject Matter: Online word processing, Sharing Documents, Peer Editing
Grades: Middle School & up, Business, Administrative
Buzzing Along with Online Word Processing
I’m starting a new review on Adobe’s teaching curricula, and was directed to Buzzword. Buzzword is Adobe’s free, online word processing application (yes, it’s free!). This is something new, and is associated with Adobe’s beta Acrobat.com.  [...]

Storyboard 1.5 by ToonBoom

28th April 2009 by LisaHill No Comments

Subject Matter: Animation, Media, Script writing, Storytelling
GradesMiddle School & Up, Business
Paperless Storytelling
Let’s say you have a story for a great movie script, game back story, or television series? At school, what if you wanted to produce your own movie (history documentary, drama, or sports), or develop a play, but it’s hard to visualize ideas [...]

Five Free Virtual Web Conferencing

25th April 2009 by LisaHill 6 Comments

Subject Matter: Online web conferencing
Grades: All levels – Admin, teachers, business
Meetings Galore
Who wouldn’t want to avoid the travel and traffic hassle for meetings?

Zoho.com – Free Word Process & More!

24th April 2009 by LisaHill No Comments

Subject Material: Free Office Suite, Web Conferencing, Wiki, Chat, Business
Grades: Middle School & Up, Business
Free Office Suite
Who doesn’t like free applications, especially online programs for personal use? Check out www.zoho.com.

Sunflower Learning

22nd April 2009 by LisaHill 2 Comments

Subject Material: Biology, Chemistry, & Physics
Grades: High School (secondary science)
Moving Away From Textbooks
Sometimes it’s hard to understand why a current runs through batteries, or conceptualize how the heart circulates.  Sunflower Learning provides powerful interactive tools to help students, teachers, and home school parents  to understand this material.

PowerZone by Learning Multi-System

21st April 2009 by LisaHill No Comments

Subject Matter:Family & Consumer Sciences, Health, Math,
Science, Social Studies
Grades:3-5th grade, Middle and High School

Connecting Gaming, Motivation and Learning
At the NSTA  (science teachers) conventions, I’d walk by the Learning Multi-System’s (LMS) booth and their display caught my eye. A bunch of teachers were playing an educational, interactive game, and having lots of fun.

VMware Fusion 2 – Running Windows on a Mac

15th April 2009 by LisaHill 6 Comments

Subject Matter: Running Windows on a Mac
Grades: Middle School & up
Strong Performance
Why do I want to run Windows on a Mac?  Some software runs fine on both Mac and Windows, but many times there are applications I want to test that only run on Windows.  And schools use both computer platforms.

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