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Resources for teachers 1.0
Resources for teachers(foremerly known as Ressources pour les profs) makes it accessible to all the new content on a French or English language site for teachers quickly. more>>
Resources for teachers 1.0 (foremerly known as Ressources pour les profs) makes it accessible to all the new content on a French or English language site for teachers quickly. The widget will give your ideas on resources to use in your classroom (free software, ressources on the Web, book reviews etc.)
Enhancements: Initial public release.
ClassBuilder Teachers Toolbox 2.0
Complete teaching tool for managing classes. more>>
TeacherTool 1.2
TeacherTool - Calculates percentage & letter grades more>>
TeacherTool is a software utility that calculates the percentage and letter grade for tests, quizzes, or assignments.
Upon entering a total score, the user enters either the number missed or number correct...the software will keep track of the number of As, Bs, Cs, Ds, and Fs for the particular score as well as the class average.
The user can choose to use the default grading scale or use their own.
Enhancements:
- A new feature that shows a series of scores at a glance or to present to students through a television or projector connected to the computer (Available via the File menu).
Invaders
An Invaders themed screensaver for your Mac more>> Principals Pal creates an easy-to-use workflow for creating a schedule. Using Principals Pal, you can create a schedule that:
Keeps Teachers Happy. Principals Pal allows you to set a minimum time that each teacher has every day uninterrupted, which allows them to count on a time of the day to tackle a longer or more difficult lesson.
Is Conflict Free. Principals Pal wont create a schedule that forgets to schedule a class for P.E., or schedules a class for Art when the teacher isnt available. It even will allow you to make sure classes with too many students arent scheduled for a special class that doesnt have enough room!
Is Easily Updated. If something has changed, simply open up your original schedule with Principals Pal and update the information. It will automatically create a new schedule for you.
Collaborative Planning Periods. A popular thing to do is schedule special classes at the same time for teachers of the same grade level so that those teachers can collaborate. Principals Pal will automatically do this for you.
Leaves Time for More Important Things. Lets face it, being a school administrator is not an easy job, and time is always precious. Principals Pal will give you several days or even weeks of your time back to you to do more important things.<<less
Grade Machine 6.8.3
Grade Machine is an application providing teachers with features and flexible grading options. more>>
Grade Machine 6.8.3 is an application providing teachers with features and flexible grading options. Class files created in Grade Machine can be used on a Macintosh or Windows computer. Grade Machine's exclusive Smart Data Exchange allows communication with school administrative software and other applications.
Arcs and Sectors 1.0
Arcs and Sectors is known as a free yet very useful program taken from a CD-ROM collection of over 200 mathematics puzzles, available on the developers Web site. more>>
Arcs and Sectors 1.0 is known as a free yet very useful program taken from a CD-ROM collection of over 200 mathematics puzzles, available on the developer's Web site. Developed by a veteran teacher, these visually-oriented puzzle games have a simple interface and are designed to provide math problems in context to middle-school (grades five through nine) students.
In this particular program, students are given the radius or diameter of a circle, as well as the measure of a central angle, and must find the area of the circle, the area of the sector defined by the central angle, the circumference of the circle, and the length of the arc defined by the central angle. All answers are rounded to the nearest hundredth. You can view a screenshot of this program by clicking here.
Chase 1.0
Chase is a free product coming from a CD-ROM collection of over 200 mathematics puzzles, available on the developers Web site. more>>
Chase 1.0 is a free product coming from a CD-ROM collection of over 200 mathematics puzzles, available on the developer's Web site. Developed by a veteran teacher, these visually-oriented puzzle games have a simple interface and are designed to provide math problems in context to middle-school (grades five through nine) students.
In this particular program, students are shown a Cartesian plane, across which a small dot moves. Students try to "capture" the dot by typing in its current or anticipated coordinates.
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.
Volvelleteer 1.8
Volvelleteer comes with many useful features to allow you to build or import a table of data, set up the slots and then print a front disk with the slots and a back disk with the table of data. more>>
Volvelleteer 1.8 comes with many useful features to allow you to build or import a table of data, set up the slots and then print a front disk with the slots and a back disk with the table of data.
Volvelleteer is software for making volvelles, those disks with tables of data that you can look at through slots. The data is generally text, but there is a weak facility for including little pictures. The application is graphical in nature, but it might have educational applications for teachers.
Requirements: Mac OS X
Centre 2.10
Centre - free student information system for public and non-public schools more>>
Centre was created for the most important needs of administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, students, and clerical personnel. However, it also adds many components not typically found in student information systems.
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.
Workbench 1.1
Workbench allows teachers to post homework on a FTP server so their students can easily access it via the internet more>>
Workbench features CSS support to allow teachers to create a professional-looking homework page with no networking or HTML knowledge.
Enhancements:
- Version 1.1 adds CSS support.
JEarthCam 1.4
JEarthCam - A widget that displays webcams from around the world. more>> Collusion is an application that detects plagiarism. Ideal for teachers
wanting to save time before reading through homework or develpers with source
code, this software checks the texts within a directory for similarities. Any
copying that has taken place can be found before spending any time reading the
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Adding Three Fractions 1.0
Adding Three Fractions is known as a free yet very useful program taken from a CD-ROM collection of over 200 mathematics puzzles, available on the developers Web site. more>>
Adding Three Fractions 1.0 is known as a free yet very useful program taken from a CD-ROM collection of over 200 mathematics puzzles, available on the developer's Web site. Developed by a veteran teacher, these visually-oriented puzzle games have a simple interface and are designed to provide math problems in context to middle-school (grades five through nine) students.
In this particular puzzle, students choose one of two types of problems: ruler fractions (halves, fourths, eighths, sixteenths) or regular fractions. Students must add the given three fractions. Every problem is illustrated with an interactive sketch. You can view a screenshot of this program by clicking here.
O-Generator (OS X) 1
O-Generator (OS X)is a tool to help you understand more the fundamentals of music and composition. more>>
O-Generator (OS X) 1 is a tool to help you understand more the fundamentals of music and composition. 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 guides students through each lesson using simple language in understandable steps with a recorded voice-over, making it ideal for nonspecialists.
