Subject Material: Art, Drawing, Animation, Media
Grades: Elementary & above
You Get What You Pay For
When it comes to drawing stylus, I found it’s best to pay for brand name products.

Subject Matter: Animation, Movies
Grades: Elementary to High School
Beginning Animation
I’ve been fighting this nasty spring cold, and it finally gave up. I could start reviewing, so I picked something fun and easy to learn. And being a kid at heart, why not doodle and create a movie?
Flip Boom is a software program that introduces [...]

Subject Matter: Biology
Grades: Middle to High School
Biology Shooter Game
Most first person shooter (FPS) games present lots of body parts, and not in a good way. NanoLegends isn’t a gory FPS, and it sure beats cracking a book when students have to learn basic cellular biology and cellular function.

Subject Matter: Animation, Media, Script Writing
Grades 6th -12 grade, College
Scripts Made Simple
Everyone has a story to tell.  Stage plays, movies, audio-visual scripts, and television episodes have their own unique writing style and format.  Lucky for beginning and experienced screenwriters, there is Final Draft Script Writer’s Suite with Final Draft v7 and Final Draft AV [...]

Subject Matter: Windows on a Mac
Grades: 4th grade & Up
Smooth Sailing
I am a Mac user, so I expect software to download easily and work seamlessly.  Macs rarely stumble.  Therefore,  I expected Parallels 4.0 to work smoothly on my MacBook Pro.  This utility software did not disappoint me.
I viewed Parallels tutorial video, which was very informative.  [...]

Subject Matter: Foreign Languages
Grades: All ages
Care to practice your Spanish, Cantonese, or Japanese? Check out these opportunities.

Subject Matter: All subjects
Grades: Elementary to high school, college, professional

New iPhone & iPod Application
Blackboard just announced the release of a free application that lets their subscribers use Apple iPhone and iPod to take “learning on the go”.