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Prices for schools vary, starting from £50 each for schools of under 100 students. J2e (Just too easy), the online word processor is already available to schools on the London Grid for Learning. Two online word processors produced especially for schools were launched last year and have been improved over the months.

The virtue of the online word processor is that you always have the latest version and it is available everywhere that you have an online connection. While Google Docs has been taken up by some schools as their basic document producer, probably the most elegant and sophisticated is Buzzword from Adobe. Simple and ingenious.įree high-quality word processors are so common now that it is difficult to decide which to use. It also enables students to create explanations.
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I can explain how to do something on the computer and record the explanation, which is then available so that I don't have to keep repeating it." The free program enables anyone to make a short recording of activity on the desktop. "It takes the pain out of explaining processes on a computer. Jing, a free, open-source product on the web, saves Racheal Smith, head of English at Bishop Fox's community school, a great deal of time. The RM version (£99 per text) provides the plays in a computerised graphic novel format which, by using the Comic Life software, teachers and students can add speech balloons to. They produce Henry V and Macbeth as comic strips that might horrify some purists but as a new way of understanding the texts it deserves consideration. Classical Comics have been around some time. Educational ICT firm RM has found an ingenious way to use it to study Shakespeare. It can also be used to create good story boards for media work. At first it just looks like lighthearted fun, because it enables you to attach speech bubbles to your own images. Just as stimulating, but very different, is Comic Life (Tag Learning £11.99). Creating a game makes children more critical of games they buy." They have to understand the logic and it has to be imaginative too. "It forces them into two processes: left brain and right brain.

Former headteacher Coral Milburn-Curtis, who heads up the Iguana Junior Learning Community at the University of Warwick, finds that the challenge and stimulation of creating a game enthuses children. In keeping with Kartouche and Media Stage, MissionMaker is innovative, enabling students to create their own games. The customize Window is also very beautifully designed.Stimulating learning is the aim of MissionMaker from Immersive Education. You can also customize the icon bar using the customize button. Colours and fonts can be changed easily using the buttons on the icon bar. The Style menu also displays styles for the object selected on the page. You can easily select background colour from the Style menu. You can choose the layout from the given templates and everything works by dragging and dropping on the page. It didn’t took me ages to understand how to use this application.

Simplicity:Ĭomic Life is very easy to use and understand.
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Overall the UI is quite impressive unlike the usual crappy UI software developers dish out to Windows users. Plasq should have avoided the menu bar and those dialog boxes could have been made beautiful. Colour chooser and font dialog boxes proved to be another eye sore. The menu bar takes away a lot of beauty from the application. The only difference I noticed is that the Windows version doesn’t have smooth Clear-Type fonts on the icon bar and it also had the menu bar. The User Interface (UI) of the application is quite beautiful. The splash screen is quite impressive, I must say. When launched, a splash screen is displayed before the application appears. Installation took almost a couple of minutes on an AMD X2 3800+ based computer. The setup icon is the first impression the user makes of an application. First of all the Setup icon of Comic Life is simply ugly.
