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DrawBot 2.0 Alpha 3
Powerful, free application for Mac OS X that invites you to write simple Python scripts to generate two-dimensional graphics more>> Powerful, free application for Mac OS X that invites you to write simple Python scripts to generate two-dimensional graphics
DrawBot is an ideal tool to teach the basics of programming. Students get colorful graphic treats while getting familiar with variables, conditional statements, functions and what have you. Results can be saved in a selection of different file formats, including as high resolution, scaleable PDF.
The built in graphics primitives support rectangles, ovals, polygons, text objects, (bezier) paths, and transparency.
DrawBot has proven itself as part of the curriculum at selected courses at the Royal Academy in The Hague.
DrawBot is written in Python. The binary download is fully self-sufficient (ie. it doesnt need a Python install around), but the source code is available if you want to roll your own.
DecoderRing 1.1
DecoderRing - Educational tool introduces students to functions more>>
Enhancements:
- Fixed strange behavior with mappings from one letter to multiple letters greater than 2.
- Added drawer that contains found problems for decoding and encoding
- Improved instructional messages when checking a submitted error
- Created better Teacher ReadMe.rtf file
- Changed help sheet data to present a student with instructions instead of just displaying the Teacher ReadMe.rtf file.
BSGenerator 1.0
BSGenerator - College application mini-essay generator more>>
I certainly have. It seems like every school wants you to tell them how youve been dreaming about them since kindergarten. I dont think its rare for high-school seniors to write one and pretty much cut-and-paste it for every application.
This application is just a small step up from that. Type in a little information about the school, nothing that takes too much thought, and click "Generate" and out pops a nice paragraph about why you were born to attend [insert college name here].
O-Generator 1.0
O-Generator is the simplest way to teach the fundamentals of music and composition more>>
Aimed at 10 to 16 year olds, O-Generators structured lessons provide objectives, activities, outcomes and assessment, and fulfill National Curriculum requirements.
The Virtual Music Teacher will guide students through each lesson using simple language in understandable steps with a recorded voice-over, making it ideal for nonspecialists.
For you...
Structured lessons provided
No music knowledge needed
Minimal ICT skills required
Minimal lesson preparation time
Teach the whole class at the same time
For your students...
Learn about rhythm by exploring different styles
Explore melody, harmony and arrangement
Use different instruments to understand chords and create melodies
Learn and develop songwriting techniques
Compose in modern and traditional styles
O-Generator engages children from the outset thanks to its clear design, which uses a circular representation of a bar of music, onto which students place their own beats, rhythms and melodies.
The use of contemporary musical instruments and styles excites students, and lets them compose the kind of music they most enjoy listening to.
And because the software is not limited to preset musical loops, the possibilities for students are endless!
and assessment, and fulfill National Curriculum requirements. The Virtual Music TeacherThe Geometers Sketchpad Updater 4.07
The Geometers Sketchpad - Mathematics teaching tool more>>
Enhancements:
- Web-links to the Sketchpad Resource Center, information about Add-On Curriculum Modules, and the standard Sketchpad Sample documents are now all available from the Help menu.
- (Mac OS X) Sketchpad is now a Universal Binary application, for native performance on both Intel and PowerPC architectures.
- Hidden merged text no longer fails to update to current values on first being shown.
- Copying/Pasting a Link action button within the same document no longer breaks the link.
- Numerical accuracy is improved when initially drawing objects with Snap Points or the Shift key in effect.
- Various problems in which font styles and sizes changed unpredictably while editing captions have been fixed.
- (Windows) Sketchpad no longer consumes 100% of available CPU idle time when animating or editing a caption.
- (Windows) Images copied from Sketchpad and pasted into other applications now more often appear with their original dimensions intact.
- (Windows) TabletPC press-and-hold gesture no longer conflicts with Sketchpads Toolbox menus.
- (Macintosh) Large nested parentheses in mathematical expressions no longer occasionally fail to print.
- (Macintosh) Printing now respects a custom page range chosen in the Print dialog box.
- (Macintosh) Safari no longer crashes when Searching in Sketchpad Help.
- Many lesser issues fixed.
Balancer 1.0
A lovely dashboard widget designed for chemistry students. more>> The Ear Training Companion v5.0 software from Acoustic Learning Inc. provides a comprehensive curriculum of lessons, disguised as three entertaining games, which lead you through the process of learning absolute pitch, intervals, scale degrees, and chord structures. Its your tutor, trainer, partner, and testing machine, all in one.<<less
Exploring the Solar System 5.1
Use the science instruments from the Hubble Space Telescope to explore our solar system! more>>
This core curriculum topic is enhanced with space science math exercises. It has been reviewed and recommended by Sky & Telescope and Astronomy Now as a tutorial for young astronomers.
Teaching Addition 2009
Teach math to kindergarten or early elementary school children. more>>
Teaching Addition 2009 is an excellent utility and the best choice for you to invest in education. This is free educational software to teach Math to kindergarten or early elementary school children. Parent participation is required to teach step-by-step method. Children are required to have ability to count numbers up to at least 20 to begin. If your children is not ready for this, you can obtain another software named "Number sense" published from the same company. For children who shows a good progress in additional can move on to multiply.
The software "multiply" published by the same company starts with counting numbers in multiple, and goes through multiplication table completely in a very easy way.
Major Features:
- This is not a game software which teach nothing about math.
- This software lead parent to play with children and master the basic concept fo addition using tools on the display. Parent will know exactly what to do to tech children learn 4 + 5 = 9, and why so.
- It extend to the concept of carry in order to learn multi-digit number additional later.
Scratch 1.3.1
A new programming language that lets you create your own interactive stories, games, music, and art Scratch is a new tool, a programming language that lets you create your own interactive stories, more>> A new programming language that lets you create your own interactive stories, games, music, and art
Scratch is a new tool, a programming language that lets you create your own interactive stories, games, music, and art.
Most people view computer programming as a tedious, specialized activity, accessible only to those with advanced technical training. And, indeed, traditional programming languages like Java and C++ are very difficult for most people to learn.
Scratch, a new graphical programming language, aims to change that. Scratch takes advantage of advances in computing power and interface design to make programming more engaging and accessible for children, teens, and others who are learning to program.
Enhancements
- There are no new features in this version. Internally, however, there is improved support for uploading projects to Scratch partner websites and improvements to the code that support Scratch on the OLPC XO computer and the Portuguese Telecom Magellan computer.
- could not import certain BMP files
- external sensor protocol did not work in presentation mode
- Unicode rendering glitch in file dialog directory menu
- deleting a list variable when both a global and local list have same name
- including % in variables names leads to strange blocks
- error when setting pen to very large size
- character encoding issue sometimes prevented launching downloaded projects
- errors when moving by +/-Infinity
- could not "say" or "think" +/-Infinity
- In addition to some translation fixes and enhancements, a few new languages have been added to Scratch in this release: Bahasa Indonesia,
- Bahasa Melayu, Eesti, Slovak
Kindergarten Group, MIT Media Lab. Scratch. Scratch is a new tool, a programming language thatStarLogo 2.2
StarLogo - programmable modeling environment for kids more>>
In decentralized systems, orderly patterns can arise without centralized control. Increasingly, researchers are choosing decentralized models for the organizations and technologies that they construct in the world, and for the theories that they construct about the world.
But many people continue to resist these ideas, assuming centralized control where none exists -- for example, assuming (incorrectly) that bird flocks have leaders. StarLogo is designed to help students (as well as researchers) develop new ways of thinking about and understanding decentralized systems.
StarLogo is a specialized version of the Logo programming language. With traditional versions of Logo, you can create drawings and animations by giving commands to graphic "turtles" on the computer screen. StarLogo extends this idea by allowing you to control thousands of graphic turtles in parallel.
In addition, StarLogo makes the turtles world computationally active: you can write programs for thousands of "patches" that make up the turtles environment.
Turtles and patches can interact with one another -- for example, you can program the turtles to "sniff" around the world, and change their behaviors based on what they sense in the patches below. StarLogo is particularly well-suited for Artificial Life projects.
Enhancements:
- Rewrote tail recursion detection to actually work.
- Fixed numerous hanging bugs that plagued the MacOSX version of StarLogo.
- Fixed display of error dialog boxes when running StarLogo as an applet.
- StarLogo is properly ported to running on Intel-based Macintosh computers when they come out.
- Eliminated ugly redraws of widgets on the Macintosh version of StarLogo. Text widgets look much better now.
- Fixed a bug in scatter plots where the generated StarLogo code was wrong.
- Found and fixed a bug that sometimes let the turtles escape their StarLogo world and scribble on the widgets nearby.
- Resize the patch canvas back to default values when you do New Project.
- Fixed numerous bugs in documentation.
Exploring the Universe 1.0
An interactive tutorial on the universe, combining math exercises with images from the Hubble Space Telescope more>>
Exploring the Universe is an interactive tutorial on the universe, combining math exercises with images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Exploring the Universe is used as a teaching aide, and is geared to enhance most space science curriculums. It is extremely easy to use, and is totally mouse driven. It has been reviewed and recommended by Sky & Telescope and Astronomy Now as a tutorial for young astronomers.
Numbers Up! Volcanic Panic Mac 1.2.2
This fun math game for ages 4-15 covers all basic skills.Its board game format has 7500 number fact and problem questions in numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percentage and ratio at 26 graded levels. Varied question styles suit different learners. All players use content to suit their own math level. Dice roll and game strategy mean that any player (not necessarily the best at math) can win. more>>
Numbers Up! Volcanic Panic Mac - This fun math game for ages 4-15 covers all basic skills.Its board game format has 7500 number fact and problem questions in numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percentage and ratio at 26 graded levels. Varied question styles suit different learners.The game scenario requires players to collect as many fuel canisters as they can to escape from a tropical island whose volcano is about to blow. The player collecting the most canisters flies away in the jet-powered escape pod. Everyone else rows in the inflatable life raft. Players collect fuel by answering math questions, using opportunities offered by chance in the game and by purchasing and using various gadgets. Up to four players can participate, and every math category and level can be individually enabled or disabled, so math content is fully customizable for every player. This feature, combined with dice roll and game strategy, means that any player at any level (not necessarily the best at math) can win the game. The length of the game can be fixed, and games saved from session to session. Math content has been compiled after extensive research across many curriculum frameworks worldwide, and different versions are specifically tailored to different countries and systems (e.g. metric or Imperial measurement units, currency). All the Numbers Up! games are ideal for both classroom and family use: perfect for small math groups in a class setting, or for use by individual students needing either remediation or extension; perfect too for the family, where siblings, parents and grandparents can play simultaneously. The higher levels of the game offer mental math problems challenging enough even for advanced mathematicians. This is a well-researched, high-quality kid-friendly math product offering great value for money. It also carries a 200% money-back guarantee.
Enhancements:
Version 1.2.2
None
System Requirements:Mac OS 8.1-9.2, Power Mac, 24MB RAM<<less
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