Learn how Weaving Web 2.0 Tools Into the Classroom tools can build web based communities, with people working together using online word processors, spreadsheets, and databases.  See how to share your pictures and files with the others.  Weaving Web 2.0 Tools Into the Classroom tools allow students to create information that was, in the past, done by professionals.  Both teachers and students explore in a way that will engage them and create self-motivated users of 21st century tools.
 
Topics include:

Podcasting    
Blogs   
Wikis   
Social Bookmarks   
File Sharing Applications   
Google   
ZOHO  
NUMSUM
 
A Wiki space page accompanies the book to keep-you up to date with new Web 2.0 features.

This new bundle includes Office Pro 2007 with Trend Micro Internet Security 2008, for $199.98.  This combines the productivity of Office Pro 2007 and Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 products to keep your work moving smoothly.

Visit JourneyEd.com or CCV Software to see the full range of academic software solutions for K-12 and Higher Education. 

Adobe has announced that they are extending student pricing to faculty and staff permanently!  This CLP licensing program change will bring reduced costs to educators.

To find out more, visit our Adobe licensing page.

Ableton Suite with Live 7 is a digital-audio workstation (DAW) program that lets you trigger prerecorded audio with a Mac’s keyboard, mouse, or a MIDI controller. Unlike traditional DAWs, MIDI control makes Live a playable instrument as well as an audio editor and MIDI sequencer. The new Ableton Suite with Live 7 delivers refinements to features found in previous versions, as well as introduces new capabilities that will be welcome to musicians, DJs, and producers.

Ableton Suite with Live 7 is absolutely the tool to use for creating and modifying compelling grooves on the fly. Live can also behave like a traditional DAW, providing an Arrangement view where you linearly record digital audio and MIDI tracks as well as add prerecorded clips, virtual instruments, and effects by dragging them from Ableton Suite with Live 7’s File Browser pane. As with Apple’s GarageBand, you can alter the speed of your composition, and the clips will stretch (or warp, in Live parlance) so that they match the tempo of the piece without changing pitch (and without introducing ugly audio artifacts that can cause the sound to warble or stutter). Unlike GarageBand, Live lets you manipulate clips in a variety of ways. Not only can you add and chain together effects (using Live’s built-in effects, Audio Units and VST effects for audio files, and MIDI effects), but you can also edit MIDI controller data (change the velocity data on a series of notes, for example), and you can edit individual samples to change such elements as their pitch, volume, and panning. Live 6 brought support for editing the audio in a QuickTime movie, multiprocessor support, and instrument and effect racks. Ableton Suite with Live 7, while not a massive departure from what came before, includes its fair share of powerful and musical new features as well.

If it is your job to look at computer applications for your school or district, you know that so much of what is available these days for schools is to assist in record keeping or is a throwback to older software days of drill and practice, ostensibly getting ready for standardized tests, or something disguised as "new" just because it has moved to an online format. For the latter, gone are the platform issues, but software that didn't take advantage of the technology then still has the same problem now, and that isn't fixed just by moving online. When I write this column, I always find I am trying to avoid one of these abysses or another.  
 
But there is a piece of software that takes advantage of all that has come before it, adds it own brand of better to it, as well as understands what technology has to offer students with dyslexia and other learning differences.  It iss for me an oasis in a desert of silicone and like any oasis, Read&Write GOLD from Texthelp is most welcome. It's a piece of software that has so much to offer making it hard to do it justice in a short review.
 
If I had to sum up what Read&Write GOLD is all about in just a few words, I guess I would have to say that it is a word processor/research tool with every assistive technology for students and adults with dyslexia and other language based learning difficulties onboard. And it is just waiting for a challenge to its might.  (More)

Sesame Street First Steps from Nova Development is an exciting way for parents to interact with their young children while encouraging learning. Play games and learn the fundamentals of language through a variety of charming and engaging activities along with Elmo, Ernie, Big Bird and Zoe. Designed specifically for ages 1½-3 years old, Sesame Street First Steps entertains children with sing-along songs, cause-and-effect explorations and a vital introduction to letters, numbers, colors, objects, shapes, seasons and animals. With bright colors, delightful music, animation and easy mouse activities for kids, early learning has never been so much fun!

Sesame Street Learn, Play & Grow from Nova Development focuses on early childhood learning and self-esteem building for children of age groups 2-4. With Elmo, Big Bird and Cookie Monster as playmates, Sesame Street Learn, Play & Grow provides children with a variety of different learning activities including Language Development, Counting, Music, Art, Shape Games and much more! Preschoolers will also discover basic, yet critical, pre-reading, pre-math, categorization and creative expression skills through activities that grow progressively challenging as each area is mastered.

Founded in 1984, Nova Development is a worldwide developer and publisher of consumer graphics and content software products for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Nova Development's unwavering commitment to value-priced, imaginative software programs has made it a leader in its market category.

Now among the Top 5 productivity software publishers in the United States, Nova Development has a history of providing new technologies that consistently expand the uses of desktop computers for a variety of users, from home to school to business.  For a full list of products for ages 1 to adult, visit our Nova Development product page.

Dario Marianelli, composer of the Golden Globe-winning and Oscar and Bafta-nominated score for Atonement has been revealing the thinking behind the acclaimed score, and how Sibelius 5 helped his creative process. The composer has also used Sibelius to repurpose the score for a live performance-taking place at London’s Wigmore Hall in March.

The Italian-born and London-based composer used Sibelius 5 to help craft the score that includes many out-of-the-ordinary flourishes, such as typewriter keys beating time to the music to signify the obsessive writing of one of the central characters, Briony.

On the thought press behind the score he says: “From a really early conversation with Joe [Wright, the Oscar-winning director who also worked with Dario on 2005’s Pride and Prejudice], I knew that Atonement needed two distinct musical themes. There’s the relentlessness of Briony – we called her the girl with faulty brakes, she just can’t stop until she’s wrecked everyone’s lives! Then there’s the intense love story between Keira Knightley’s character, Cecilia, and Robbie” (played by James McAvoy).

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Sorenson Media on Monday introduced a new line of Squeeze products for video compression and decoding. Squeeze 5.0 comes in various packages for Mac OS X and Windows.

Squeeze 5.0 is used to encode video for playback on the Web, CD and DVD. You can output content in formats ranging from QuickTime to Flash, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. Packages include Squeeze 5.0, Squeeze 5.0 Pro (formerly Sorenson Squeeze PowerPack), Squeeze 5.0 for Flash and Squeeze 5.0 for Flash Pro.

New to Squeeze 5.0 releases is the ability to process multiple files simultaneously on Macs that have multiple processors or multi-core processors. Encoding times on such systems have also been reduced. Sorenson says that users can now compress and encode up to 1.5 files on each core.

Also new are improved codecs to provide better video quality. VC-1 encoding is now supported for users creating video for Blu-ray Disc. Quality improvements have also been made to the encoders used for MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and H.264 video, in particular for High Definition (HD) settings. Watermark, Hue-and-saturation and sharpen pre-processing filters have been added, and inverse telecine, video fade and deinterlacing filters have all been improved.

Squeeze 5.0 also gets overhauled for audio quality. AC-3-compatible 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound audio is now supported, along with support for many VST plug-ins. Audio volume and audio duration filters have been added. BIAS Soundsoap is now included into both Squeeze 5.0 versions — Soundsoap can be used to remove noise and crackles from audio.

A new feature called Audience Presets bundles preprocessing filters, filter order, encoding settings and output destinations such as FTP servers into a single custom presets. You can also sort presets by format or output target.

Squeeze 5.0 Academic Pricing is available from CCV Software.

For more than 10 years, early learners have bridged the gap between concept and understanding with the help of Bailey, Millie and the rest of the lovable Edmark House Series characters. The new Edmark House Series stays true to that tradition, with some very modern twists.

 

Meeting Challenges Head On

With increasingly diverse classrooms, teachers need the right tools at their disposal to ensure an individualized learning experience for every child. The Edmark House Series now includes the ability to assign accessibility by student, monitor and report on each student’s progress and deliver engaging content via a new, easy-to-use interface.

 

Learning Management Tools

The new Edmark House Series makes it easier for you to target each student’s individual needs with powerful new reporting and learning management tools, including real-time progress reports, time on task reports and easy-to-administer assessments that help gauge student proficiency.

 

Expanded Accessibility Options

·       Built-in universal access and pacing options

·       The ability to select and assign accessibility by student

·       Screen scaling for larger views

 

Save on Riverdeep Software!  We have created special bundles pairing your favorite Riverdeep software titles with popular accessories. Currently we are offering six special bundles for different age groups and needs at exceptional savings!

Creativity Bundle K-8 with Wacom Bamboo Tablet

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With the debut of Print-Limit Pro 8.0 in February, schools, colleges and universities find it even easier to save printing costs and the environment. This new release includes features that enhance group management, expand administrative functions and report options, and support Leopard - Mac OSX 10.5.

A typical school with 1,000 students spends nearly $20,000 annually on printer paper, toner and maintenance. With Print-Limit Pro 8.0, educators can conserve resources and save money by easily and efficiently managing printing across large, multi-platform environments.

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• Now Available! Microsoft Office 2007 Professional with Trend Micro Internet Security 2008
• Staff and Faculty now to receive student pricing on Adobe products!
• Macworld gives Ableton Suite with Live 7 a 5 mouse rating!
• Read&Write GOLD Is Solid - www.powertolearn.com
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• Golden Globe-winner Dario Marianelli offers his thoughts on winning Oscar and Bafta-Nominations for Atonement score using Sibelius 5

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