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Nero Announces the Upcoming Worldwide Release of Nero 8

mary | 12 October, 2007 14:20

Nero’s latest digital multimedia suite has been built with consumer ease of use in mind

IFA, Berlin, Germany (August 30, 2007) -- Nero, leaders in digital media technology, announced today the upcoming release of Nero 8, the next generation of the company's award-winning, integrated digital media and home entertainment software solution. Designed with consumer ease of use in mind, Nero 8 extends content beyond the PC, allowing users to easily create and edit, convert and share, rip and burn, backup and protect digital media. With Nero 8, users can enjoy their content at home, on-the-go, and online. Additionally, Nero 8 Ultra Edition (Academic Pricing) and Nero 8 Basic 10-19 Licenses (Academic Pricing) is built to ensure data integrity and reliability and is optimized for use with the new Windows Vista™ operating system.

Nero 8 Ultra Edition (Academic Pricing) and Nero 8 Basic 10-19 Licenses (Academic Pricing) introduces the newly-designed Nero StartSmart user interface, which maximizes user efficiency with a one-stop solution for creating and managing digital media projects. With this new interface, prime functions like burning and ripping audio and data discs can now be accessed directly, letting users complete projects with one-click functions. Nero 8 also supports a number of next-generation formats with editing, playback, and burning features. In addition, Nero 8 lets users edit photo slide shows and create High Definition video in both Blu-ray BD-AV and HD DVD video formats.

The new and improved Nero 8 Ultra Edition (Academic Pricing) and Nero 8 Basic 10-19 Licenses (Academic Pricing) software allows users to upload videos and share content on YouTube™, MySpace® and My Nero with a simple one-click solution. In addition, Nero RescueAgent™ has been developed and integrated based on Nero customer feedback, and allows users to restore deleted files and recover data from CDs and DVDs that may have been lost due to scratched discs, interrupted recording operations, or poor recording quality.

"When we released the first generation of our Nero suite, our goal was to help average PC users easily create and manage their digital lives," said Udo Eberlein, Chief Operating Officer, Nero AG. "With the launch of Nero 8, we are building on this vision, providing users with easy-to-use features for the creation, management, and protection of all their multimedia projects. Nero 8 users can simply do more in less time, whether they are converting audio files to MP3 format, editing photo slide shows and videos, or creating an entire home entertainment network with integrated streaming, recording, and playback options for their multimedia files."

Nero 8 Ultra Edition (Academic Pricing) and Nero 8 Basic 10-19 Licenses (Academic Pricing) has been optimized for use with the new Windows Vista™ operating system and offers a variety of features that complement Windows Vista™ including the Nero DiscCopy gadget, which lets users copy a disc with just one click in the Windows Vista™ sidebar. Nero 8 Ultra Edition (Academic Pricing)Nero 8 Basic 10-19 Licenses (Academic Pricing also provides a complete bundle of multimedia and backup and recovery features not found in Windows Vista™ alone. The addition of live icons allows users to see what is in a file without opening it, and a Rich Preview pane offers direct access to files from within the Windows Explorer browser.
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Autodesk Launches Academic Certification Program to Help Prepare the Next Generation of Professionals

mary | 11 October, 2007 10:47

End-to-End Solution Effectively Measures Student Competencies and Proven Experience in Engineering and Design Technology

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced the launch of its academic certification program for secondary and post-secondary students. The
Autodesk academic certification program enables students to earn a credential in recognition of their knowledge of specific Autodesk software applications. The credential that students earn is the same credential that design professionals earn, but it is offered at an affordable academic price.

Autodesk supports this program with an end-to-end certification solution that includes: a pre-assessment application proficiency exam, Autodesk official certification courseware for reviewing the knowledge and skills covered on the certification examinations, and certified user and certified expert examinations for validating knowledge and skills. Autodesk academic certification exams support career pathways in architecture and construction; manufacturing; science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The exams are mapped to select state academic standards and national academic standards for science, technological literacy, mathematics and language arts.

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Demo of Renaissance Learning 2Know! Classroom Response

mary | 10 October, 2007 10:05

With the built-in 2Know! Toolbar, the 2Know! Renaissance Classroom Response System Package comes ready to use—from the moment you take it out of the box and install it. No set-up is necessary. Just ask questions, and as your students enter answers into their 2Know! Renaissance Responder Handheld Unit, you get instant responses displayed in colorful charts and graphs.

With the AccelTest software, included with 2Know!, you can easily create formal assessments, quizzes, tests, surveys, assignments, and more. Everything can be saved, edited, and used time and again, year after year.  In addition, you can prepare assessments using 8,000 ready-made content items included with the software. You can even download sets of questions that correspond to popular textbooks.

When you use AccelTest, the complete questions and answer choices are displayed on each student's responder, including True/False, Yes/No, Multiple Choice, and Numeric Response items. Responses are scored instantly and stored in the built-in gradebook to help you quickly react to areas where students may need further instruction. Also, you can view and print detailed reports that help you:

  • Access individual student reports detailing how each student answers every question.
  • Export student results to spreadsheets, data files, or other gradebooks.
  • Improve parent/teacher communication with detailed assignment records for each student. 


 Learn more about the 2Know! Renaissance Classroom Response System Package, 2Know! Renaissance Responder Handheld Unit and 2Know! Renaissance Classroom Response System Receiver Package by watching the short online demo below.

http://demo.renlearn.com/2Know/ 


Alien Skin introduces Exposure 2!

mary | 09 October, 2007 11:35

Exposure 2 (Academic Pricing) is the new, even more feature-packed version of our award-winning Adobe Photoshop plug-in that gives digital photographs the look and feel of film. Whether you’re a fashion or wedding photographer, a designer or art director, with Exposure 2 (Academic Pricing) you’ll have one-click access to the broadest range of film stocks and special effects settings available in any software package. That’s why Exposure 2 (Academic Pricing) is the closest thing to film since film.

Pick a film, any film. When it comes to the variety of films you can simulate, Exposure 2 has no peer. You can match the look of popular film stocks like Portra, Velvia®, Kodachrome, Polaroid, and TRI-X. We’ve even saved some films from extinction in Exposure 2 (Academic Pricing), like Agfa Scala, GAF 500, and Kodak EES.

It all comes down to grain. Exposure 2 (Academic Pricing) gives you the most realistic grain on the market, now with even more control over sharpness, color variation, and intensity throughout the tonal range. And since Exposure 2 (Academic Pricing)’s grain size automatically adjusts to your image size, you get consistent results across all of your cameras.

More effective effects. With over 300 presets, Exposure 2 (Academic Pricing) has even more special effects settings than before, including push and cross processing, a vastly improved infrared simulator, and sophisticated color to black and white conversion.

So easy to use. Exposure 2 (Academic Pricing) simplifies your workflow by collecting color, dynamic range, softness, and grain control into one easy-to-use plug-in. Correct a colorcast, soften a digital portrait, or tweak contrast with our powerful slider and curve controls. Or even define your signature look and save it as a one-click effect.

Markzware Releases Q2ID 3

mary | 09 October, 2007 08:45

If you have QuarkXPress v3.3 through 7.x files, you can now easily convert these with the Q2ID 3 (Academic Pricing) plug-in that supports Adobe InDesign CS3 (Academic Pricing) for Windows!

Designers, printers, creative professionals struggling with re-creating intricate details of content from
QuarkXPress documents in Adobe InDesign CS3 (Academic Pricing) can now save countless hours with this exciting release that now supports Adobe InDesign CS3 (Academic Pricing) for Windows.

The
Q2ID 3 (Academic Pricing) document conversion tool saves countless hours of scanning, re-keying and formatting. This product converts and transforms files created with QuarkXPress on both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh systems, into new Adobe InDesign CS3 (Academic Pricing) files.

Learn more about the latest version of QuarkXPress by visiting the product page:

QuarkXPress 7 with Quark Interactive Designer (Academic Pricing)

QuarkXPress 7 Upgrade (Academic Pricing)

 

Core Learning has been included in SMART Technologies Inc.'s Software Accreditation Program.

mary | 08 October, 2007 08:21

“As a company we felt, some time ago, that we had applications that work very effectively on interactive whiteboards and we have believed that there were opportunities for SMART Technologies and Core Learning to support each other in the education marketplace,” said Doug Hatch , President and CEO of Core Learning. “With inclusion in this Software Accreditation Program, SMART Technologies will commence marketing Core Learning software products that work well with SMART's interactive whiteboards.”

SMART Technologies. is both the industry pioneer and leader in interactive whiteboards. In the U.S. alone they have over 300,000 white boards installed in classrooms. They introduced this Program to identify and direct customers to third-party software that is compatible with SMART Technologies' interactive whiteboards. This allows customers to confidently purchase software from
Core Learning to get the most from SMART Technologies whiteboard technology.

The Software Accreditation Program has three levels of designation: Ready, Enabled, and Select. The Ready level indicates that SMART Technologies. has approved the software title for suitable performance with SMART TechnologiesCore Learning products, its award-winning art and graphics program, corefx Three Level, and its 7 health titles in the Health for Kids Series (two volumes) and the Family Health Series (five volumes) work exceptionally well with interactive whiteboard technology. 

More from Core Learning:

Brain Builder

Brain Builder Pro

Bridge to English - ESL Course

corefx Stamps Plus

To see a full list of products, visit the Core Learning page on our site!


More from SMART Technologies
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SMART Ideas 5.0 (Academic Pricing)

SynchronEyes Lab License v7

 

Honestech Introduces Claymation Studio Deluxe

mary | 05 October, 2007 13:02

New York, NY at Digital Life and Austin, TX September 27, 2007 Honestech, Inc. today announced the release of Honestech Claymation Studio (Academic Pricing) an easy-to-use stop-motion authoring studio which enables novice users to create claymation, stop-motion video, animation and cell-based videos from imported images, photographs, music audio and recorded sound tracks. Honestech, Inc., a leading developer and marketer of digital video and Internet Protocol software technology for multimedia content on PCs, handheld devices and phones, will retail the product at under $50.00.

The new product, which includes Clay, targets the fast growing consumer created content market, allows users to capture images using a digital camera, webcam, DV camcorder or any digital image source, create characters, apply small changes, and add background images and music to create complete claymation movies.

Features of the
Honestech Claymation Studio (Academic Pricing) software include:

 

  • Onionskin, which allows users to view the previous frame and the next frame in the creation process on a same-screen transparent overlay mode to help perfect the image for the next frame.
  • Rotoscope, where users can view a still photo on top of a new image in the creation process and use it as reference to help produce images that are difficult to create.
  • Chroma key, which allows users to put an object on a blue/green screen and import easily-changeable background images from another source. WMV/AVI/MPEG, which enables users to save their videos in Windows Media File or Audio Video Interleave formats.
  • Audio recording, which allows users to import or record audio and add it to specific frames.
  • Simple frame editing, whereby the user can display frames in sequence, and change the order of the frames using drag-and-drop.
  • Project format, which allows users to save a current project being worked on, and continue working on it at a later time.

onOne Software introduces PhotoTune 2.2!

mary | 05 October, 2007 10:47

onOne Software has introduced PhotoTune 2.2 (Academic Pricing) – an easy-to-use Adobe Photoshop plug-in incorporating the company's newly acquired color-correction plug-ins – 20/20 Color MD 2.0 and SkinTune 2.0.

"Having recently acquired
PhotoTune 2.2 (Academic Pricing) and their ground-breaking plug-ins 20/20 Color MD 2.0 and SkinTune 2.0, we wanted to be able to quickly offer our combined customers a new complete color correction software solution," said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software.

"
PhotoTune 2.2 (Academic Pricing), available for the first time, includes ColorTune technology (formerly known as 20/20 Color MD) with its patented color correction process and SkinTune technology, developed after more than two years of in-depth skin color research. PhotoTune 2.2 (Academic Pricing) is sure to improve the busy workflow of photographers, graphic artists and photo enthusiasts."

About 20/20 Color MD 2.0
20/20 Color MD 2.0 will be renamed ColorTune now that it is owned by onOne Software. ColorTune is a straight-forward, yet sophisticated technology designed for anyone who wants great looking images without spending hours behind the computer screen manually adjusting curves and sliders.

ColorTune works like an eye exam to figure out precisely what is wrong with a digital image and how to fix it. During each step of the patented Color Wizard process, users are presented two side-by-side preview images that have been altered in different ways.

Users simply click on the best looking image between each pair. The entire six-step process only takes about 15 seconds. In comparison, if a user spends an average of 10 minutes fixing an image with Photoshop's Curves, Levels, and Hue & Saturation it will take them 16 hours to color correct 100 images. With
PhotoTune 2.2 (Academic Pricing) and ColorTune technology, 100 images can be processed in less than one hour.


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Create an Animatic Slug with PowerProduction StoryBoard Artist

mary | 05 October, 2007 10:28

Everyone's familiar with the storyboarding process as it relates to film production. It helps a producer and director bring a screenplay to life. But have you ever thought about how storyboarding could streamline editing and post-production? Imagine creating a visual outline to guide your editing, before you even start collecting footage. Imagine a full-length animatic, complete with music, right in your NLE timeline - to overlay footage onto, making constructing a scene a snap. Imagine creating animatic slug scenes from your own images or from a library of supplied images to round out your unfinished sequences.

All of this is possible using
StoryBoard Artist 4 (Academic Pricing). With StoryBoard Artist 4 (Academic Pricing), an editor no longer has to screen unfinished sequences with 'shot missing' or 'scene missing' slates. Instead the editor can create animatics to import into their NLE timeline. Check out this new tutorial to learn more.
 
http://channelwolves.com/powerp_tutorial_082007.htm

More StoryBoard Artist software:

StoryBoard Artist Studio 4 (Academic Pricing)

StoryBoard Quick 5 (Academic Pricing)

New Information and Project Example Packet Available from FableVision!

mary | 04 October, 2007 16:58

Stationery Studio supports writing both at the computer and by hand. How? This innovative program is actually two tools in one – an introductory word processor with all of the basics and none of the confusion, and a tool for customizing stationery for handwritten activities.

With Stationery Studio, students and teachers choose from 226 curriculum-themed borders and shapes (plus 80 available exclusively through the Fall & Spring Add-on Packs) designed by award-winning author/illustrator Peter H. Reynolds. Students can type stories, reports and letters at their computers. Or, they can customize stationery with appropriate writing line styles (primary skip-a-line, basic primary, standard, etc.), line widths, and layouts and then print the stationery for hand-written work. Teachers can use the program to create motivating story starters, activities, handwriting practice, and newsletters.

Stationery Studio Fall & Spring Add-On Pack provides borders and shapes to use with your Stationery Studio software. These add-on packs include borders and shapes to expand your existing Stationery Studio library from 226 up to 306. Each new pack will be added directly under the “Holidays and Seasons” theme in Stationery Studio.

Each pack includes activities by Dr. Peggy Healy Stearns, and many new borders and shapes, designed by Peter H. Reynolds and the artists at FableVision. These new borders and shapes also come with variations such as portrait, landscape, and envelope formats and are aligned across the curriculum to support social studies, science, and language arts and more!

All Stationary Studio add ons: 

Stationery Studio Fall & Spring Add-On Pack Bundle

Stationery Studio Fall & Spring Add-On Pack Bundle ESD

Stationery Studio Fall Holidays Add-On

Stationery Studio Fall Holidays Add-On ESD

Stationery Studio Spring Holidays Add-On

Stationery Studio Spring Holidays Add-On ESD

Learn more about Stationery Studio and Stationery Studio Add-On Packs.  This PDF contains project examples and information.

Stationery Studio Information and Example Packet - Great Reference Tool!

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BrainCogs and Essay Express Bundle

BrainCogs: The Personal Interactive Coach for Learning and Studying

ClipMation Volume 1: US Presidents

Essay Express

North Star Inspiration & Musical Journey Deluxe Bundle

 

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