What you will find on your new computer:

· All plugins: Adobe Reader, Flash player, java, shockwave, etc.

· Codec for playing .avi files

· Office 07, all components including Outlook, so you can create and share calendars

· Audacity 1.2.6 (not Beta)

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio. Foreign-language teachers might use for dialogues, others might use for adding audio to student presentations or PowerPoint slideshows or voiceover for movies.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording or add effects such as echo.

· Photo Story 3

o Create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions. Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile–based portable device.

· ArtRage Starter Edition

With ArtRage you can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle sparkling glitter and much more. Stencils and rulers let you create precise shapes or smooth curves and straight lines freehand. Tracing and Reference images let you load photos to recreate as paintings either by eye or by letting ArtRage select colors for you as you paint. For professional users, ArtRage offers Layers, Layer Groups and Layer Blend Modes compatible with the PSD file format.

Best of all, ArtRage doesn't force you to learn complex tool settings, it lets you get right down to painting with tools you already know how to use.

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· Corel Painter X—

o Similar to Photoshop Elements and teachers can purchase a home-use copy for $10. Contact Marilyn Cron at East Middle school. Corel® Painter™ X mimics traditional painting better than any other software. Unique digital brushes, art materials and textures help artists achieve the perfect composition, color palette and brush stroke. Ideal for professional artists, designers and photographers, it's a complete digital art studio.

· Corel Paint Shop Pro

o Paint Shop Pro makes photo editing easy with everything from automatic photo fixes to precision editing tools. Correct mistakes, make good photos better and create one-of-a-kind photo projects.c

· Corel Draw Suite, full install

o CorelDRAW® for artists who want a full vector-based graphics program. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite delivers all the essential tools for today's busy designer. Create powerful designs using intuitive vector illustration and page layout tools. Retouch and enhance photos with professional photo-editing software. And easily convert bitmap images to editable and scalable vector files. Whatever your project, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 will streamline your workflow and inspire you with new creative possibilities.

o Create illustrations, logos, brochures, newsletters, flyers, signs, Web images and more.

· Camstudio—

o Free screen-recording software. CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

• You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
• Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
• You can create video tutorials for school or college class
• You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
• You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
• You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them

· Smartboard software.

o Can be used without a smartboard for slideshows and screen capture.

· Nvu

o Webpage/html editor. Nvu (pronounced N-view) makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML. Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users.

· CPS

o for use with eInstruction Interactive remotes

· Google Earth

o Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.

· Google Sketchup

Create 3D models and share them with the world

Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like.
Get started right away.

Most people get rolling with SketchUp in just a few minutes. Dozens of video tutorials, an extensive Help Center and a worldwide user community mean that anyone who wants to make 3D models with SketchUp, can. Check out our training videos »

Model anything you can imagine.

Redecorate your living room. Design a new piece of furniture. Model your city for Google Earth. Create a skatepark for your hometown, then export an animation and share it on YouTube. There's no limit to what you can create with SketchUp.

Get models online for free.

You can build models from scratch, or you can download what you need. People all over the world share what they've made on the Google 3D Warehouse. It's a huge, searchable repository of models, and it's free

· Firefox—

o Mozilla’s browser and alternative to Internet Explorer

· Gimp—

Can’t afford Photoshop? Need to resize or touch up photos? GIMP an impressively powerful and freely-distributable Adobe Photoshop-alternative open-source application for digital image composition, authoring, retouching and processing.

· Picasa

Organize and manage your photos in one place, find photos you forgot you had. Edit: eliminate scratches and blemishes, red eye, crop and more. Create: turn photos into movies, collages, slideshows. Share: upload seamlessly to Picasa web albums to share with family and friends and the world.

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· Real Player—

o use Real Player to download Youtube and other videos easily.

· Quicktime—

o will play mp4s and Apple format audio and video

· Pdf creator or Cutewriter—

o will create pdfs without buying Adobe Acrobat. Simply go to Print and choose cutewriter or Pdf creator in the printer menu. It will make a pdf out of anything on your screen: webpage, publisher doc, word doc, excel spreadsheet, powerpoint, photoshop, etc.

· Super Media converter—

o will convert just about any picture, audio or video file to another format.

· Hot Potatoes electronic quiz maker

The purpose of the Hot Potatoes is to enable you to create interactive Web-based teaching exercises which can be delivered to any Internet-connected computer equipped with a browser. The exercises use HTML and JavaScript to implement their interactivity, but you do NOT need to know anything about these languages in order to use the programs. All you need to do is enter the data for your exercises (questions, answers, responses etc.), and press a button. The program will create the Web pages for you, and you can then upload them to your server.

There are five basic programs in the Hot Potatoes suite: 

· The JQuiz

 program creates question-based quizzes. Questions can be of four different types, including multiple-choice and short-answer. Specific feedback can be provided both for right answers and predicted wrong answers or distractors. In short-answer questions, the student's guess is intelligently parsed and helpful feedback to show what part of a guess is right and what part is wrong. The student can ask for a hint in the form of a "free letter" from the answer.

· The JCloze

 program creates gap-fill exercises. Unlimited correct answers can be specified for each gap, and the student can ask for a hint and see a letter of the correct answer. A specific clue can also be included for each gap. Automatic scoring is also included. The program allows gapping of selected words, or the automatic gapping of every nth word in a text.

· The JCross program creates crossword puzzles which can be completed online. You can use a grid of virtually any size. As in JQuiz and JCloze, a hint button allows the student to request a free letter if help is needed.

· The JMix program creates jumbled-sentence exercises. You can specify as many different correct answers as you want, based on the words and punctuation in the base sentence, and a hint button prompts the student with the next correct word or segment of the sentence if needed.

· The JMatch program creates matching or ordering exercises. A list of fixed items appears on the left (these can be pictures or text), wth jumbled items on the right. This can be used for matching vocabulary to pictures or translations, or for ordering sentences to form a sequence or a conversation.

In addition, there is a sixth program called the Masher. This is designed to create complete units of material in one simple operation. If you are creating sequences of exercises and other pages that should form a unit, you may find the Masher useful. The Masher can also be used to upload Web pages not created with Hot Potatoes to the www.hotpotatoes.net server. 

Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) Design Premium—high school computers only

o Includes Acrobat (pdf creator/editor), InDesign (newsletter/layout program), Photoshop (digital photo editing), Flash (animation), Illustrator (logo, vector-based art), Dreamweaver (webpage/html)—the professional standard for graphic designers.

Contribute— High school computers only

WYSIWYG html webpage creator that can connect via ftp for easy updates of webpages. Includes many templates so teachers can create pages within a half hour.

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