My Guitar features multimedia lessons that guide children with video demonstrations, while creatively using interactive games to help with learning chords. eMedia’s “My Music” series proves that “edutainment” is a great way to make learning fun and easy for kids!

The program stars a playful animated character named Gary the Guitar, who guides children through lessons written by professional instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D. My Guitar features an easy-to-use interface and begins with the basics, such as holding and tuning the guitar, and moves on to strumming chords, reading tablature, and playing songs. The new games are both fun and educational, helping kids memorize specific chords while keeping them entertained. My Guitar’s innovative teaching approach keeps children excited about learning music and gives them a chance to build confidence. With over 50 lessons featuring more than twenty popular songs, My Guitar is a great new way for kids to get started on learning to play guitar! (More)

Quark® Deluxe Edition for Education provides students with a complete set of design tools for success in today’s multi-channel creative environments. QuarkXPress — combined with Quark Interactive Designer™, Quark XPert Tools Pro, and Quark Print Collection — delivers a powerful publishing solution in a single box. With Quark Interactive Designer™, you can create and output Flash® files with video, motion, sound and interactivity directly within QuarkXPress 7. Make prepress and imposition — in either QuarkXPress or Adobe® Acrobat® — quick and easy with Quark Print Collection. And leverage the popular Quark XPert Tools Pro XTensions® modules for better scaling, improved guides, and powerful text-linking.

QuarkXPress 7.31 offers the following enhancements:

• Certification on Windows Vista® and support for Mac OS® Leopard

• Enhancements to spell checking that allow you to:
  • Find and correct duplicate words
    (For example: The reports reports are out.)
  • Find and correct spacing errors after punctuation
    (For example: See, spot can run.Can you?)
  • Ignore Internet & file addresses when spelling is checked
    (For example: http://rootcellr/mac/ctm.htm, https://, ftp://, file://, and tcbr@fastcow.org)
  • Ignore words with numbers
    (For example: model numbers fx25b4, fx30b4)

• The QuarkXPress Passport 7.31 updater also includes:
  • Spell checking and hyphenation support for Norwegian (Bokmål) and Norwegian (Nynorsk) languages.
  • Spell checking in German, Reformed German, and Swiss German that finds and corrects capitalization errors at the beginning and within a sentence.

QuarkXPress 7.31 resolves various customer-reported issues, including:

• Text reflow issues:
  Customers may have experienced text reflow when opening projects created in earlier versions of QuarkXPress that contained justified text with tracking applied or text set with right index tabs and negative tracking applied. These issues have been resolved.


• Import and output of projects containing Creative Suite 3 (CS 3) PDFs:
  Customers may have experienced issues with placing PDF files created in Creative Suite® 3 or lost alpha and spot channel information when importing PSD files created in Creative Suite 3. These issues have been resolved.  


• Output of hairline rules on non-PostScript devices:
  Customers may have experienced incorrect output of hairline or fractional point rules on non-PostScript devices. This issue has been resolved.


• Recurring error message with older versions of fonts:
  Customers on Windows may have experienced a recurring error dialog when opening legacy projects that used older versions of some fonts. This issue has been resolved.


• Bounding Box To Use settings for PDF import
  Customers may have noticed that selections made in the Bounding Box To UseImport Picture dialog box (File > Import Picture > PDF Import) were not retained. This issue has been resolved.


• Updating single occurrences of modified images
  Earlier versions of QuarkXPress had no option to update a single occurrence of a modified image in a layout through the Usage dialog box. Users can now use the Shift key to update a single occurrence of a modified image in a layout.

Visit our Quark product page for a full list of products.  The QuarkXPress 7.31 updater is free to current QuarkXPress 7 users.  Visit www.quark.com to update.

Corel Corporation, a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced that Corel Painter™ X has been honored with Professional Photographer magazine's 2008 Hot One Award. The Professional Photographer 2008 Hot One Awards honor the photography industry's best new products for professional applications. This marks the third consecutive year that the Corel Painter brand has received a Hot One Award. (More)

What can academic buyers expect from Infocus?

* FIVE exclusive projectors with the needs of educators in mind:  IN24+EP, IN26+EP, IN34EP, IN35WEP, IN37EP
* Focused, competitive pricing
* Unrivaled service programs
* 3 years product warranty* (parts and labor)
         1 year lamp warranty*
         5 year image display warranty*: The DLP® chip is guaranteed for a period of 5 years after purchase of the projector against mechanical failure or chip defects .
* Warranties come standard on InFocus EP projectors only.

 

Core Learning has received acceptance of its corefx Three Level art and creativity software program by the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN). CLRN is an agency of the State Department of Education that evaluates and reviews instructional materials to ensure compliance with state law and to ensure proper correlation to and support of state curriculum standards. corefx Three Level is now being listed on the CLRN website (www.clrn.org) and with the listing, the program is eligible for purchase by California schools with the use of funds from the California Department of Education.

Core Learning’s corefx Three Level has also been adopted by the South Carolina Board of Education as supplementary resource for K-12 Visual Arts. With the state adoption, corefx Three Level can be purchased under special pricing established by a six year contract between Core Learning and South Carolina’s Department of Education. corefx Three Level is the only art and creativity software program adopted by the Department of Education and thereby eligible for purchase with state funds. The contract will commence in the spring of 2008.

“We are thrilled to have been granted this adoption,” said Doug Hatch, President of Core Learning. “corefx Three Level is an award winning software program that enhances curriculum while continuing to promote individual artistic creativity. It is an essential addition to traditional visual arts education and it has the additional benefit of developing technology skills. With its capability of managing the most common digital files it can also be used by teachers to present a wide range of digital learning objects. This new contract will greatly facilitate utilization the of this terrific program by schools across South Carolina.”

The South Carolina submission was the second opportunity for Core Learning to submit corefx Three Level for state adoption in Visual Arts. Alabama also holds a six year adoption contract with Core Learning that commenced in April 2007.

corefx Three Level has earned two prestigious Distinguished Achievement awards from the Association of Educational Publishers: Best Art Software and Most Innovative Software. It also received a perfect five-star rating from the Children’s Technology Review and it has been recommended by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) as the best creativity software program for K-8 classrooms.

For the first time in nearly four years Microsoft is taking the time to make life easier for Mac users who want to leverage Microsoft's productivity suite instead of Apple's.

Microsoft announced at Macworld 2007 that it would be retooling Office for Macs, and the software will finally hit the shelves on Jan. 15. The update includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage and Messenger for the Mac. Some cool added features include the ability to save to PDF like with Office for Windows and a My Day widget for Entourage that can display calendar items and to-do lists.

New Mac products include:
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition

Smith Micro Software Inc. has added the popular e frontier 3D graphic and animation solutions Poser, Anime Studio and Manga Studio to its growing lineup of consumer-focused products. 

"The rapid advancement of technology has made computer animation and 3D modeling available to everyone and the animation industry is one of the hottest growth segments within the consumer marketplace," said William W. Smith, Jr., President and CEO of Smith Micro Software, Inc. "We are excited to significantly broaden our consumer portfolio with the addition of Poser, Manga Studio and Anime Studio. These popular products not only compliment our current multimedia offerings, but positions Smith Micro as a leading player in this space."

The fast growing global animation and 3D market reached nearly $60 billion in sales in 2006 and is expected to pass the $80 billion sales mark by 2010. The Poser’s 3D figure design and animation program has a strong following of more than 500,000 users and is growing. Manga Studio, originally created in Japan as ComicStudio, has become the number one selling Manga software worldwide. Anime Studio is a complete animation solution for creating 2D movies, cartoons, anime or cut-out animations and is ideal for animators of any caliber.

PLATO Earth and Space Science is rich with multimedia lessons and activities that use animation, experiments, investigations, video, and audio to bring science concepts to life. Each lesson uses theme-based scenarios to engage students in scientific inquiry, problem solving, and critical thinking. A sophisticated test-item bank allows teachers to assign objective-based pre-tests and post-tests to determine level of understanding and prescribe appropriate instruction.

Designed as a flexible instructional tool, the PLATO Middle School Science Series can be implemented for multiple uses: as a self-study tool, as a remedial curriculum in credit recovery programs, in teacher presentations to introduce concepts, for test review, as a supplement to GED instruction, or to complement textbook lessons. Each lesson is aligned to state standards and the guidelines set by the National Science Foundation, the Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) lab and the AAAS Project 2061.

PLATO Earth and Space Science is the final release in the PLATO Middle School Science Series. With the completion of the PLATO Middle School Science Series, PLATO Learning is now able to offer a comprehensive middle school package that includes standards-based mathematics, reading and writing, social studies, and science content, all with built-in assessment.

Powerful New Project Management Features Reduce Costs, Improve Efficiency, and Increase Profits

SmartDraw announced today that increasing numbers of business professionals are turning to SmartDraw for project management. SmartDraw—the first program to automate the process of creating business graphics—helps users quickly create project charts, Gantt charts, bar graphs and pie charts, schedules, forms, and much more.
"The biggest benefit of using SmartDraw is the ability to create very complex schedules in just minutes," said Kim Human, IT and Services manager for Seismic Exchange, a full-service seismic data marketing firm. "We were using Excel for this purpose and it was painful. We tried Microsoft Project, and another scheduling package but they were too structured to meet our needs. SmartDraw is easy to learn and flexible…and the final products look professional!"

SmartDraw eliminates the need to do any drawing whatsoever to create a project chart. Users simply type in each task, date, or duration, and SmartDraw creates the graphic for you. In addition, users can change the scale of a project chart in a single click—changing the format from weeks to months, quarters, or years.
In addition, SmartDraw allows users to begin projects as a visual outline—or mind map—to easily plan out everything that needs to get done. Once the project is mapped out, users can view as a project chart with one click of a mouse, toggling between the mind map and project chart view anytime. Changes made in one view will be reflected in another.

"For existing clients, SmartDraw makes explaining project plans much easier and I'm betting our clients will love to visually see what's happening with their project rather than simply reading a bulleted outline," said Michael Turner, CEO of Marketing Max.

Unlike other graphics programs that provide you with a blank screen and expect you to draw, like Visio, with SmartDraw you start with a template that is specifically designed to create the type of illustration you need. You enter the information and SmartDraw does the rest: building the graphic automatically using built-in rules and professional design themes to guarantee polished, presentation-quality results in just a few minutes. It draws for you! And, in the rare case that users need extra help, SmartDraw offers free customer support to all users.

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