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Educational Software
 What is Kahootz? What does it enable you to do? Kahootz allows students to: Create amazing animated 3D stories that fly through cities, jungles and underwater Easily create fantastic 3D movies with Kahootz characters, animals, buildings and dinosaurs that combine animation, sound and special effects Inventions Games Why should you want Kahootz? Kahootz has all the functions and features that students expect from software. They can relate directly to its functions as they are very similar to the ones they use when playing games on their own PC or on the net. Kahootz enables teachers to set tasks with the confidence in knowing students will use Kahootz as a means to express their ideas. Kahootz can be used across all year levels and in any subject area. What are the Features and Benefits of Kahootz? Feature | Benefit | Kahootz is a program that can be used across all year levels and subjects. | Whole school investment Flexibility | It is a presentation tool | The teacher can now provide students with an alternative to other digital presentation tools. By watching students demonstrate, teachers can evaluate the depth of student understanding. Students must also plan their own creation so as to provide the largest possible impact upon presentation. | The ability to import any sound | Students can create their own multi-track soundtracks that can include imported sounds, their own voice and over 1,000 Kahootz sounds and extended atmosphere tracks. Students in English activities can then record their own narrative to match the actions of the Kahootz characters. | 1,000 3D Objects 100 Worlds
| Kahootz 3.0 provides more cultural diversity, scientific possibilities and subject related possibilities. These worlds and objects can be the stimulus for creativity or provide the utensils to complete the idea.  | Import/export functions from external media | Like any premium presentation program Kahootz allows students to personalize their presentation | Special Effects | Students can create and control 3D natural effects such as fog, snow, water, fire, and electricity. These will be ideal to use in the Science, Environmental and SOSE areas. They can enhance their presentation by using animate effects and lighting to show weather conditions, fog, smoke and smog as well as sunrise to sunset | | | Game Making Actions | Advanced Action functions will allow for a greater level of interactivity providing more game-making possibilities and a higher level of engagement for older and more gifted students.
Students can choose from a list of effects such as fire, water, goo, cells. | Integrated Movie Exporting | Greater level of integration of the movie export function to allow students to easily create digital video that could be combined with innovative blue-screen techniques.
Easy pre-set exports for computer, player, web/email or DVD allow for greater flexibility when presenting.
| Swatch your Face onto a Kahootz Character | Students can import their photograph and swatch it onto the moving Blockhead character. They can also use created animated faces of blockhead. | Animated Giffs | Users can now Import animated giffs into their Swatch library (up to 12 frames). This will give the illusion of a movie playing within your Kahootz scene. | Colourful clear Interface | The interface has been re-designed for Kahootz 3, allowing an easier experience for the user. The same functions are there but functions such as Tools - drop, clone, copy and sizing are now on the top level. | Authoring action variables | The introduction of authoring action variables allow for Kahootz as a game-making tool and provide a far greater level of interactivity. This will enhance its potential in the areas of Mathematics, Science and ICT. | Advanced library of objects | The increased cultural diversity of the Kahootz 3D library of Objects will provide LOTE and SOSE teachers with greater opportunities to integrate Kahootz into the curriculum. | Addition of a greater range of historical Objects will allow students to recreate more History related scenarios. A greater range of food and health related Objects will also allow students to create various Health and SOSE related scenarios. | Direct import of voice/language files | The ability to record a student's voice directly into Kahootz 3.0 and import various language sound files will enhance its use substantially in the LOTE area. |
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What is MyBoard? What does it enable you to do? MyBoard is the ideal classroom management system for any interactive whiteboard. MyBoard provides an interactive structure from which students can use from the minute they enter the classroom. MyBoard enables students to: - Visually manage their attendance - Check tasks reminders and timetables
MyBoard allows teachers to:
- Set up groups - Apply rewards - Have more time teaching rather than organizing
Why should you want MyBoard?
MyBoard is the ultimate timesaver for any teacher using an Interactive Whiteboard. It gives teachers a scaffold in which to make the IWB the ultimate interactive tool from the moment it is introduced to the classroom. MyBoards ease of use and practicality enables teachers to use their IWB from Day 1. What are the Features and Benefits of MyBoard? Feature | Benefit | MyBoard is a program that can be used across all year levels and subjects | Whole school investment | MyBoard can be used on any interactive device (whiteboard) | Flexibility | MyBoard is one program that can be used all day every day! | Value | MyBoard gives the teacher a structure from which to work from | Provides teacher support Any teacher who uses an IWB is able to use MyBoard. It gives the teacher management activities that allow the board to be used in an interactive way from the minute a student enters the room. | Allows students to visually present attendance information | Students use the board from the moment they walk in the door. It becomes second nature thus saving time. Great way to see who is absent on the day. | Colourful, vibrant design | The images and simple design are inviting, allowing the user to work with the board a pleasing experience. | Student tasks can be easily created by the teacher. | Students are then able to check what tasks they have either through the reminder or task button. They can then tick off as completed. This allows the student to work responsibly and not have to be in constant contact with the teacher to check tasks. It also enables for easy collating of listed and completed tasks for reporting. | Visible timetable
The timetable feature allows for access to a timetable from any date | This allows students to see where they should be and when. It gives information on subject tasks and once again this enables students to begin work without having to wait for teacher involvement. | Reminder list | Students and to some extent teachers and parents can see reminders for any day. This provides for easy access and once again allows students to be far more independent. | Group wizard | Groups can be made and presented visually allowing for no confusion. They can be labeled and saved thus enabling them to be presented with ease when needed. | A number of colour and topic related background templates | Allows for an easy change of presentation. | Simple, yet powerful design | The design enables minimal teacher input yet maximum reward. |
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What is NewsMaker? What does it enable you to do?
NewsMaker is a software tool that enables students to demonstrate their understanding by creating professional-looking digital news reports in four easy steps. 1. Write 2. Read 3. Personalize 4. Publish NewsMaker is designed to require minimal technology skills, freeing the students to focus on reading the news story with accurate pronunciation, clear enunciation, and appropriate intonation. Why should you want NewsMaker? NewsMaker provides students with an easy, affordable, and fun platform to practice writing, speaking, and presentation skills.
Newsmaker enables students to achieve curriculum standards in reading, writing, speaking and listening.
NewsMaker can be used at any year level and for any subject. It is a tool to help students improve their communication skills while mastering content in any subject area.
What are the Features and Benefits of NewsMaker? Feature | Benefit | Design The whole project or presentation can be completed within the software | Students can concentrate on the task at hand and not be distracted by organizing props, costumes, video cameras etc. It is time saving as students don't have to move to filming locations or wait for the use of a video camera. It saves money as expensive videoing equipment is not required. | Storyboard Students can plan and write their report on the inbuilt storyboard | It provides students with a simple and easy platform to work from. | The computer monitor serves as a teleprompter | Students can easily become the 'news anchor' by simply following the teleprompter. They read the story aloud for practice, and then make a recording. It allows students to edit and refine their presentation with ease by just re-recording within the software. | Publishes the recorded clip as a single video file | Students can produce a final presentation that can be easily shared with classmates, teachers, family or friends. The benefit of this is unlimited with students not only gaining confidence in the presentation but the content of the presentation. It also provides students with ideas for future presentations | In-built scoring rubric | This helps to facilitate self-assessment and peer critiquing strategies. | Built-in face-tracking, blue-screen and other fun video technologies makes it easy to overlay impressive visual effects. Additional effects can be downloaded from the left panel of this website. | This allows students to personalize their work. It provides the fun aspect of the presentation that makes students want to use the program. It means that the school does not need to buy expensive equipment to achieve quality visual effects. | Minimal extra Equipment required | To make a news report in the past the school would need expensive videoing and editing equipment. All the school requires now is NewsMaker, a web cam and some type of microphone. | Easy to learn Easy to use | Anyone can use NewsMaker; you don't have to be a trained expert. You don't need to invest a lot of time, effort or money into learning how to use NewsMaker. | NewsMaker is a program that can be used across all year levels and subjects. | Whole school investment. | Creative presentation tool | The teacher can now provide students with an alternative to other digital presentation tools. By watching students demonstrate teachers can evaluate the depth of student understanding. This is valuable to students also as they have to edit their written work and polish their presentation skills to provide the best possible outcome. | Familiar features and fun format | The simple and fun format means it can be used by any student. It is powerful in the hands of a reluctant student as they are given a scaffold from which to work and a professional finish from which to present. | Familiar word processing features | The simple Microsoft word like presentation allows for ease in editing to change the font and size of the print. Stories can be imported from various locations allowing for timesaving. Text editing functions like cut/copy/paste are provided here. | Creative applications | If you have more than one story and need to arrange them in the correct order simply select a story from the panel and use the keys to arrange as desired. | You can import a story from another project by clicking on the 'Import Story' button. This is particularly helpful if the project is done at group level and when each member types in the story using a different PC. | Teachers can use cloze activities in NewsMaker to improve student writing skills. For example, teachers, can create a cloze passage to get their students to practice subject-verb agreement, punctuation or to expand vocabulary, and they may even use the cloze passage to improve reading comprehension. |
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