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Grade Level Applications
Elementary
Comic Life - This software aids students in adding images and graphics in a colorful and interesting way to their writing. Students find the comic format a fun and motivating way to create original works from fiction to expository. Comic Life helps to round out the many different types of writing experiences and opportunities provided to students.
Kidspiration - Created for K-5 learners, Kidspiration develops thinking, literacy and numeracy skills using proven visual learning principles. In reading and writing, Kidspiration strengthens word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension and written expression. With new visual math tools, students build reasoning and problem solving skills.
Lego Mindstorms - Students in the fourth and fifth grade Project Idea program are challenged to apply problem solving and communication skills as they work in small teams to build and program simple robot devices. The “Challenges” they are asked to solve require them to practice the “Habits of Mind” they have been learning throughout the Project Idea experience. Each task requires students to build unique robots whose design specifically meets the stated challenge, as well as to create a simple program that controls the robots' motions.
Pixie - Using Pixie, kindergarten through fifth grade students have the opportunity to draw, “paint”, and create in an effort to show evidence of their learning. Stickers, stamps, and spray cans are some of the many tools available to showcase their creativity. With the click of a button, students have the opportunity to share, showcase, and present their work with others.
Type to Learn - Keyboarding instruction is part of the curriculum for third, fourth, and fifth graders. The Type to Learn software is the application students use as they learn about key placement and appropriate fingering while keyboarding. As technology becomes an ever more important tool in learning, students need to be comfortable with keyboarding so that they can be efficient and productive.
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Junior High
Comic Life - This software aids students in adding images and graphics in a colorful and interesting way to their writing. Students find the comic format a fun and motivating way to create original works from fiction to expository. Comic Life helps to round out the many different types of writing experiences and opportunities provided to students.
Finale Notepad - Finale Notepad is an introduction to the world of music notation software. It allows students and teachers to capture ideas, hear their music, add marking and lyrics and share their music with others.
Inspiration - Inspiration is the ultimate thinking and learning tool. It allows users to brainstorm ideas, structure their thoughts and visually communicate concepts to strengthen understanding.
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High School
Adobe Creative Suite - This software delivers a whole new experience for digital media creation through the use of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and other Adobe tools.
Autodesk Inventor - The Inventor software products offer a comprehensive and flexible set of tools for 3D mechanical design, product simulation, tooling creation, engineer to order, and design communication. Students are able to go beyond 3D to digital prototyping by producing accurate models that help design, visualize, simulate products before they are built.
Webassign - WebAssign delivers secure online testing with customized precoded questions from a wide range of math and science textbooks. Instructions create assignments online and electronically transmit them to the class. Students enter their answers online and WebAssign automatically grades the assignment and gives students instant feedback on their performance.
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Free Applications
Audacity – a software program for recording and editing sounds.
Format Factory - an easy to understand software that has proven to be reliable in the conversion of files from one format to another (example: convert .avi to .mp4).
Google Earth – a virtual globe, map, and geographical information program.
Open Office Writer (PC) – a leading open-source (free) office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations.
Photo Story – create slideshows using digital photos. With a single click, touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and voice narration to photo stories.
Windows Movie Maker - a video creating/editing software application, included in Microsoft Windows. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie.
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Online Resources
Quia - Quia allows teachers to create educational games, quizzes, surveys and more that align to their curriculum.
netTrekker - netTrekker is the leading educational search tool utilized by millions of K-12 educators and students. It bring standards-aligned, teacher-approved digital resources and a unique set of learning tools to the classroom.
Reading A-Z - offers thousands of teacher materials to teach leveled reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, alphabet and vocabulary. The resources are designed for us in various reading settings from whole class to small group to individual work.
SMART Notebook - allows teachers to create high-impact lessons that bring learning to life. Teachers utilize a rich set of design and delivery features with a multitude of digital resources, SMART Notebook software connects teachers to content, tools, and support.
United Streaming - Powered by Discovery Education, this tool provides comprehensive digital resources with more than 160,000 learning objects, all designed for easy integration into the curriculum and aligned to the Common Core Standards.
Visual Thesaurus - Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.
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