BASD Technology Integration |
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Camino is an open source web browser developed for Mac OS X users. |
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Comic Life provides comic book templates, speech balloons, has iLife and build-in camera (iSight) integration. The interface is drag and drop which allows you to drop any image into your comic creation. |
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Dictionary & Thesaurus |
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Fathom 2 is designed for students in eighth grade through college. It gives your students the power—and motivation—to gather, explore, and graphically analyze data in depth, and to understand concepts in mathematics and statistics as never before. Could be utilited in the following classes: Algebra 1, Algebra 2,Geometry, Precalculus, Calculus, Regular Statistics and AP Statistics, Science, and some social science courses to assist in labs and surveys or polls. |
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Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform graphical web browser. |
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Garageband '08 makes it easy to perform, record, & create music and audio quickly. GarageBand can create complete podcasts by easily combinding images, jingles, voice-overs and special effects. You can use GarageBand compositions as soundtracks for their slideshows, movies, and then publish content onto webpages. |
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Geometer's Sketchpad version 4.07 allows students to visualize and explore mathematical relationships. Can be used in activities to study Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, algebra, trigonometry, precalculus, and calculus. |
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Google Earth is a desktop application that allows you to navigate planet Earth from multiple views. Google Earth combines satellite photos and maps with a search engine. |
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Grapher is a graphing calculator with a 2D and 3D plotting tool and an equation editor that exports to many file formats (including QuickTime). |
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iDVD '08 makes it easy to quickly create a Hollywood-style DVD, using Apple-designed themes you can create the main screen menu and other chapter selection pages. |
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iMovie '08 allows students to easily create movie projects that include digital video, photos, and music, as well as narration and text. Students can use iMovie to create video science reports, their own short films, or documentaries about current events. |
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iMovie HD ('06) allows students to easily create movie projects that include digital video, photos, and music, as well as narration and text. Students can use iMovie to create video science reports, their own short films, or documentaries about current events. |
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Inspiration 8 is an integrated diagramming and outlining environment that works together to help students comprehend concepts and information. Use Inspiration to brainstorm ideas, plan, organize, structure an outline, create diagrams, and write reports. |
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iPhoto '08 makes it easy to download, organize, edit, and share digital photos. Students can create slideshows; they can also store and organize photos for use in other iLife applications. |
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iWeb '08 makes it easy to make terrific-looking websites that can use items from other iLife applications. |
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Journler is a daily notebook. Combining text and media technology, Journler allows you to add writing to your digital life without losing sight of other media. Features iLife and build-in camera (iSight) integration. |
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Keynote '08 is Apple's simple-to-use, cinema-quality presentation software—students can create stunning presentations to share their work. |
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Logger Pro 3 integrates real-time graphing and hands-on learning to help students gain valuable knowledge from math or science lab activities. Logger Pro 3 makes data collection simple. |
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Microsoft Office 2004 Professional Edition provides presentation (Powerpoint), spreadsheet (Excel), word processing (Word) software from Microsoft. |
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NeoOffice is a full-featured office productivity suite including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database, and macro functionality (offers similar tools to that of AppleWorks). It can be used as a free alternative to Microsoft Office for Mac. You can exchange documents with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org users, even on other platforms. |
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Numbers '08 is Apple's new spreadsheet solution. Extremely intuitive, Numbers ’08 lets you do everything from setting up a budget to completing a lab report. |
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Pages '08 is Apple’s word processor and desktop publishing solution—students can choose from a collection of templates to quickly produce professional-looking newsletters, reports, and more. |
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Safari is Apple's web browser designed by Apple for Mac or PC. |
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Webster is software that is necessary to run the Polyvision Interactive Whiteboards in CFF classrooms. |
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