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Including ArtTouch, Beep, Black Cat Compose, First Class Music, Musical Monsters series, and others
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ArtTouch CD
Let your students succeed in art by creating electronic masterpieces!
Choose from dozens of backgrounds, or start with a clean tablet.
Hundreds of stencils of people, animals, shapes and things can be
dragged to your "canvas."
Select color and intensity with the paint pallets.
Position and size the stencils just right.
Add finishing touches like text, highlights, and texture.
Then transfer the finished work to your personal portfolio, where you can
admire, print or email - or consider it a work in progress.
An easy-to-use gem of a program!
Appropriate for all ages and abilities.
Win 98-XP
Mac OS 8.6-9.2/OSX Classic, Native
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Beep!
Kindergarten - Grade 3, Inclusion
Have you ever painted a picture that sings as you draw? Well now you
can! Based on the themes of creative play and
exploration, students get absolutely hooked on Beep! Activities
encourage emerging learners to express their ideas, while developing
important IT skills and building confidence with the computer.
Navigate a maze and develop spatial orientation skills. Dress the
creature and spark lively discussion. Use the word robot to develop
word recognition. Animate characters with simple mouse clicks to
build confidence. There are endless opportunities for creative
thinking and discussion. Beep! is ideal for early
learners, autism, and pre-readers. Clip art library included for
printing and coloring.
Minimum system requirements
Win 98+, Pentium 600 MHz, 128 MB RAM
Mac OSX, G3+
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Black Cat Compose
Grade K-6, Inclusion
You don't have to be Beethoven to compose great music! Black
Cat Compose is a versatile musical composition program for emerging
musicians. With 4 difficulty levels, it's configurable for a wide range
of abilities. Choose from 128 instruments and add various
effects such as echo, transpose, and fade. Visual learners will use
pictures and names to represent musical phrases, gradually progressing
to a grid display and stave notation.
Win 95 or later, Pentium 133 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 16 bit
color, sound card
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IT-DO01
5 Users
IT-DO05

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Disco
Disco is intended to amuse, develop switch skills and
develop the understanding of cause and effect. The images and animations in the
program are specifically chosen for older children, adolescents and adults. The
activity level ranges from a single press to gain an animated reward, to many
key presses to build up a scene.
Win 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
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FacePaint 2
Special Ed.
Create hundreds of silly faces using pictures or words! Configurable
for non-readers and early readers, just click or type in preferences to see
the face gradually build up. With a sound recorder you can even make your
character talk and then print it out, or save it to disc. Full switch access
allows users to make choices using scanning menus, just hit your switch to
choose. The ability to undo or have answers confirmed allows the users to
change their mind and easily correct mistakes. Other features include male
and female faces with a choice of 4 skin colors. The background colors and
the text colors can be set to high contrast options to aid users with visual
impairment, the pointer size can also be increased. The question settings
allows for "picture only" to support non-readers or symbols users, written
questions, or both options can be made available.
PC 486 DX2-66 MHz, 8 MB RAM, 8x CD, 1 or 2 switches (optional)
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Draw
This vector-based drawing package includes a powerful range of tools
for creating spectacular drawings. Using the same kid-friendly
interface as the suite of programs in Workshop, this
package is fully configurable to meet all student needs. Create
lines, shapes, and other geometric drawings. Build plans and maps.
Because it's vector-based, Draw give students the
ability to easily adjust, move, and rescale the shapes they have
created without losing any quality. Use a wide range of drawing
tools, shading, graduated and solid fills, rotation and scaling
facilities, a drawing grid, and a range of themed color palettes. In
addition to all of these tools, the same bank of clip art found in
Workshop is available right on the desktop.
Minimum system requirements
Win 95+, Pentium, 133 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 8x
CD, 800x800, 16 bit color
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IT-DK01
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Drumkit
New, noisy, music making software with interfaces for younger and older
students. Select a tune, add percussion sounds or tune motifs. Learn to add
rhythm. Can you hit your switch in time to the music? Mouse, touch screen,
IntelliKeys or switch access. Includes 2 IntelliKeys overlays. Drumkit comes
with many tunes and settings, and you can add your own music files to create your own activities.
Win 95/98/ME/2000/XP** (see below)
** Drumkit CDs issued after July 14, 2003 will operate with Windows XP.
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First Class Music
Grades 3-8, Inclusion
This unique and long-awaited program will be music to your ears
.literally!
Scores of first-rate lessons guide students step by step through the basic
concepts of music with hundreds of interactive screens, tons of assessed
activities, check points, and printable reports. Click on instruments to
hear their timbre, lines and dots to discern rhythm, and animated characters
to listen to melodies. Identify wrong notes in scales, work with patterns in
music, and build your own tunes. Students learn about key elements of music
such as dynamics, pitch, rhythm, structure, tempo, and timbre in 15 hours of
learning divided into four stages. Each stage contains lessons with names
like Levels of Loudness, White Notes, Jumpy, Smooth and Crisp, Voice Types,
and Bowed, Blown, or Plucked.
Win 95+, Pentium 100 MHz, 640 x 480, 16
bit color, 32 MB RAM, 4x CD-ROM
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IT-KO05
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K-1 Kaleidoscope
K-1 is a musical kaleidoscope - an activity for all ages and
abilities
It is: a toy; a graphic design tool; an assessment tool; a
multi-sensory device; a happy reminder of times past.
Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
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Kaleidoscope 2
Special Education
This sensory software contains over 100 creative paining activities
for use with a mouse, touch screen, or other access/input devices. A
kaleidoscope of colors, patterns, stamps, and styles are at users'
fingertips. The results are so fantastic that kids and adults will
be eager to print their works of art. Kaleidoscope 2 was designed
especially for students from the pre-kindergarten to second grade
level and for individuals with cognitive and developmental disabilities.
Categories include:
- Early Stimulation: Kaleidoscope and
Quarter: Paint in one quarter of the screen and it appears in all.
- Early Stimulation: 2-Way Symmetry: Create symmetrical paintings.
- Early Painting: A great creative activity for developing fine motor skills.
- Early Filling In: Select a color and
click on an area to fill it in.
- Early Filling In and Painting: You choose to fill in or paint.
- Balls: Array your screen with colorful balls.
- Copycat: Copy the color-scheme of a picture.
- Jigsaws: Use bricks and other stamps
to build fantastic jigsaw puzzles.
- Lights, Stamps, and other topics: A
series of topics to explore with your art.
- Words: Click on a word and hear it
spoken as you add it to the screen.
Brick walls, butterflies, and rays of color are just some of the
tools available for building kaleidoscopic pictures. In addition to
all the visual stimulation, users will be entertained by the beeps,
gongs, burps, and chirps that accompany each layer of their
paintings.
Win 95, Pentium
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Mini Musical Monsters
Kindergarten - Grade 1, Inclusion
Create melodies, compose songs and even learn the
notes of popular tunes using Mini Musical Monsters! Mini Musical
Monsters contains six engaging musical activities for 3 - 5
year-olds. Children can have fun experimenting with music making,
rhythms and sound effects. Mini Musical Monsters is also ideal for
developing vital ICT skills and will quickly build confidence in
novice computer users - any mouse click or keyboard press will
produce interesting results! Mini Musical Monsters contains no
speech and does not require reading skills. It is a valuable
addition to an early years or foundation stage setting.
Activities include:
Follow the Cloud, Monster Match, Musical Garden, Monster Mixer,
Monster Grid, and Monster Scale
Minimum system requirements
Win 98+, Pentium 400 MHz, 64 MB RAM
Mac OSX 10.1.5+, 128 MB RAM
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More Musical Monsters
Grades 1-5, Inclusion
Create a unique symphony with a few clicks of the mouse then press
play to enjoy! With More Musical Monsters fun creatures
will play anything from an acoustic piano to the sound effects of a
seashore! More Musical Monsters builds on the popular
design of the original Musical Monsters but is a more extensive
music-making tool, ideal for the elementary range. You choose the
creature and tone and assign a sound effect, then click your way to
a masterpiece! Once finished click the MIDI button and save your
file to play at a later date. The ease and variety of this program
will keep children entertained for hours, as well as yourself!
Teacher controls allow you to customize the difficulty levels
(shrinking the variability), instruments, or record your own sound
sample to add into the choices! More Musical Monsters
also contains a library of resources such as, pre-recorded tunes,
sounds samples and even printable lesson plans!
Minimum system requirements
Win 98+, Pentium 400 MHz, 64 MB RAM
Mac OSX 10.1.5+, G3 or above, 128 MB RAM
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Musical Leaps and Bounds
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Grades K-1, Inclusion
Turn on The Moody Jukebox, Let's Dance, and The Singing Blobs in this
new CD-ROM from the highly popular Leaps and Bounds series. Music and
listening activities are the focus of the 6 well-planned, engaging
activities. Musical Leaps and Bounds encourages children to respond,
explore, experiment, express, and communicate their ideas in imaginative
ways.
Patch for Windows XP
Win 95 or later, Pentium
133 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 800 x 600, 16 bit color
Mac OS
8.5 or later, 68040, 4x CD, 800 x 600
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Musical Monsters
Kindergarten - Grade 3, Inclusion
Anyone can create a tune! Build rhythms and melodies by putting the
singing creatures onto the music board, then listen and watch the
results. Early learners quickly gain confidence to create their own
sound patterns without assistance. Listen to, evaluate, and reshape
each tune while exploring the composition process. A simple click on
the MIDI button will save files for later play, or for development
of a live performance. There are 30 ready-made tunes to demonstrate
musical concepts and moods, and over 120 instruments to choose from.
Teachers can customize difficulty levels, shrink the grid size,
select instruments, or adjust the tempo to tailor the difficulty
level for each student.
Minimum system requirements
Win 98+, Pentium 400 MHz, 64 MB RAM
Mac OSX 10.1.5+, 128 MB RAM
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IT-SM01
5 Users
IT-SM05
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SwitchIt! Facemaker
Lets children have fun decoration faces on - and off - the
computer
Add your own photos of children, teachers, parents (anybody!) to
SwitchIt! Facemaker and decorate them with hats, beards, glasses,
earrings and more. You can also give people different eyes, noses,
hair and funny ears, or even spots and face paint. Or try dressing
up a picture of the child's pet! Nearly 100 features give you
thousands of combinations, engaging students in creative exploration
and experimentation.
A cause and effect level adds features to a face in response to a
simple switch input. Other options allow all learners to be creative
according to their own ability. Suitable for non-readers too.
Completed faces are saved to a viewing gallery and can be printed
out for further use.
Ideal for cooperative play as well as any topics relating to
personal, social and health education (PSHE), modeling (design and
technology), art, supporting literacy and encouraging the use of
mathematical language. A set of printable resources is included for
you to use away from the computer.
Win 2000/XP/Vista
Mac OSX
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IT-SW02
5 Users
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SwitchIt! Patterns
Part of the
SwitchIt! Cause and Effect Series
Build patterns on-screen and see them animate.
SwitchIt! Patterns caters to young children and to users who require visual
stimulation and cause-and-effect software.
Minimum System Requirements:
Win 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP, Pentium 90MHz, RAM - 16MB (Win 95) or 32MB (Win 98/ME), SVGA
suggested, sound card, 4x CD ROM
Mac OS 7.5.5/OSX, Power Mac 7200/90, 11MB RAM, 256 colors suggested, 4x CD ROM
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Whole Class Fresco
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2002 BETT Primary Software Tools Award
Grade K-9, Inclusion
Fresco is a truly creative graphics program for the new Millennium!
Designed to take educational graphics programs into a whole new creative
area. Users will be stunned by the realism of the different painting tools.
Fresco is suitable for a range of ages. There are four built-in levels and
teachers have the option to create new levels to meet the needs of
individuals or groups of students. Ideal for use with a whiteboard,
projector, or pressure sensitive pen tablet.
Win 95+, Pentium II, 32 MB RAM, 4x CD
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