The Print Shop 2 for Mac

Software MacKiev's second award-winning edition of The Print Shop for Mac is the easiest way to create impressive print projects such as greeting cards, calendars, business cards, newsletters, and CD labels. This version has more than a hundred new and improved features, including a set of powerful yet easy-to-use layout tools (rulers, grids, guidelines and "snap to" functionality) to make designing custom projects even easier. The Print Shop 2 comes in a 2-CD

set that includes a bonus Art CD. FREE BONUS BOOK! – Each order ships with a 184-page full-color user guide.

The Print Shop 2 for Mac includes: • Two CD set (includes a bonus Art CD) • 9500+ professionally designed project templates • 19,500+ premium images (photos and graphics) • 240+ great-looking fonts (100 new in this edition) • Powerful layout tools (rulers, grids, and guidelines) • Integration with Apple's iLife® (iTunes®, iPhoto®, and iDVD®), iCal® and Address Book• Photo Workshop (advanced photo editor with special edges and effects) • Support for label-free CD printing (with selected EPSON®, Canon®, and HP® printers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Roger Wagner’s HyperStudio® 5

HyperStudio's flexible environment offers students a creative space where they can express ideas and attitudes, probe and evaluate, all while using the latest technologies. Challenge your students to think critically and creatively while writing in images, text, sound, movies, and animations. With elegantly simple tools and a drag and drop environment, younger users to the most sophisticated technology-using students can create digital culture. What's new in the version 5.2? • Export to HTML5 and Web Apps. Export projects as HTML5 that can designated as Web Apps. These can then be viewed on the iPad and iPhone as locally running "apps", without needing iTunes! HTML5 exports can also be viewed on Android and Windows 8 tablets, as well as desktop and laptop computers. • New and enhanced text actions. Compare and move text between text objects, and read and write text to and from files without requiring any scripting! Save written essays and quiz results, and compare entered text to desired answers. • Improved drag-and-drop. Drag-and-drop images, text, sounds, movies and more to instantly add elements to your projects without touching a menu. Classroom time is limited. There's nothing like HyperStudio for making the most of it!

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The perfect iBooks Author companion.

HyperStudio AUTHOR is an elegantly simple way to create extraordinary interactive books for the iPad. This new app creates HTML-5 based media elements (widgets) that can be dropped into Apple's free iBooks Author, and the resulting iBooks can be distributed freely, or published on Apple's iBook store. Teachers can prepare interactive presentations and download them onto

student iPads in the form of iBooks. Students will be able to tell their stories in a professional eBook form with highly interactive multimedia content they create themselves with HyperStudio's award-winning drawing, painting and presentation tools. The perfect companion for HyperStudio 5 too. If you are already using HyperStudio 5, then you know how to use HyperStudio AUTHOR. You can start by importing your HyperStudio stacks, or create new interactive stacks from scratch. Either way, you can't go wrong since HyperStudio AUTHOR contains only those HyperStudio 5 features that will work in an iBooks Author project. That way, you create perfectly compatible interactive iBook widgets every time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Kid Pix® 3D - for Mac, PC, and Windows 8 Pro tablets

For nearly a quarter century, KID PIX has been the digital canvas of choice for more than 50 million students around the world. Whether creating a digital storybook about the letter B, telling a multimedia story about a journey to the moon, or designing an animated research project on early American pioneers, KID PIX helps students learn as they imagine, explore, create and share. New in this edition:

• Storytelling text-to-speech voices from Acapela bring student stories to life. • Set the scene with dozens of rich, multi-layered 3D backgrounds. • Easy path animation tools let 3D characters move and interact. • Create floating stickers out of anything on the screen. • Simple layer tools teach about spatial relationships and perspective. • Video narration and animated costumes let students appear in their stories. • Set the scene in foreign lands with 101 video backgrounds. • Use dual audio tracks to add both narration and music. • Add pictures directly to slide shows with the Add to Slide Show button. • Make stop-action short "flipbook" films with fast transitions. • The Undo Guy can fix just about anything with unlimited undos and redos. • Transform animated pictures and slide shows into 3D movies.

• Publish Kid Pix animated 3D adventures directly to YouTube™. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing® - School Edition

Mavis Beacon, the world's most famous typing teacher, provides dynamic personal instruction, placing students in lessons based on their current skill level and adjusting their path as their typing improves. Optional lessons are included for the Dvorak keyboard, used by the world's fastest typists. Students

can compete in 2-computer typing games over the school network. New practice options include typing RSS news feeds, iTunes® song lyrics, and the full text of classic novels. Grades 1 and up. Features include: • Mavis Avatar – Mavis has an avatar that's so realistic, your students will think she's inside their computers cheering them on. • Type a Novel for Practice – Students can catch up on their classics while they practice, with the full text of dozens of novels from Pride and Prejudice to Huckleberry Finn. • Classroom Manager – Teachers can create and edit classes, track individual student progress and edit goals and other settings. • Built in RSS Feeds – Students get smarter while they practice with up-to-the-minute news feeds from BBC News to The Weather Channel®. • Custom Lesson Designer – Teachers can create lessons with any text, set lesson limits (time, number of errors, number of words) and goals (speed, accuracy). • Offline Synching – With Student Home-Synch™, students can take their laptops home to practice typing and have their progress updated automatically on the school server when they return. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2013 World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia

The wonders of our world are captured in this new edition of World Book. It's completely up to date with more than 4,000 new and updated articles from Arab Spring to Hunger Games, and from Jack Black to Whitney Houston, as well as gorgeous new photographs, video clips, and illustrations. Students can see how a killer tornado is formed and witness the notorious Berlin Wall coming down. They can watch cheetahs running seventy miles an hour and see how ancient Egyptians made mummies. The journey begins here.

2013 World Book includes: • Every article in the 22-volume World Book print edition • Thousands of editor-selected website links • Online Article Updates • Editor approved web-cams • World Book Dictionary • World Book Atlas with translucent 3D Globe • World Book Trivia Challenge • World Book Media Showcase • This Day In History Widget • Thousands of photos, illustrations, video clips, sound clips, poetry readings and speeches

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3D Weather Globe™ & Atlas – Deluxe Edition

Software MacKiev's award-winning 3D Weather Globe adds a new dimension in this new edition with ten times higher resolution, and 3D views of Earth. You don't just look at the Andes mountains from above – now you tilt the Earth view so you can fly through them. Catch the first snow in the arctic, watch the sun

rise over the Hawaiian islands, or find your favorite constellation in the night sky. New in This Edition: • Accurate view of stars and planets; Turn on constellations • Route Map organizer with more than 100 famous routes • Tilt the horizon to see mountains, canyons and more in 3D relief • See rain, snow and a variety of cloud patterns in realtime • 10 times higher resolution NASA maps (1 pixel to 100 meters) • Locate landmarks, national parks, mountains, waterfalls, and more • Realtime weather in 60,000 locations (50% more than version 1) • Information on cities, states and countries • Video capture exports the globe in motion as a QuickTime movie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Edmark Thinkin' Things®

Thinkin' Things Collection 1 takes place in Toony the Loon's Lagoon where six different activities help early learners develop visual, spatial, logical and musical memory, problem solving skills, and essential critical-thinking skills. With all instructions spoken by the characters, reading is not required so that non-readers can participate fully.

Features include:

• Six playful activities with engaging animated characters. • Question & Answer and Explore & Discover modes provide opportunity for independent and structured learning. • Automatically adjusts to each student's learning level, advancing in difficulty as the student successfully solves a problem. • Single Switch option increases accessibility for special needs students. • FREE Teacher's Guide at www.mackiev.com/thinkinthings.

Learning opportunities:

• Create and discern patterns • Complete visual analogies • Hypothesize and test rules • Strengthen creativity • Compare and contrast attributes• Improve visual and auditory memory • Recognize visual and auditory strengths • Strengthen ability to conceptualize and evaluate ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ClueFinders® 3rd Grade Adventures - Mystery of Mathra

Venture deep into the rain forest to learn language arts, reading, math, science, geography, and problem solving.

Key Features: • 24 activities at any of four levels • Build skills in 6 academic areas • A.D.A.P.T. learning technology adjusts the program as the player makes progress • Progress reports to monitor progress and celebrate achievements • Special practice mode to hone skills without affecting the score

ClueFinders® 4th Grade Adventures - Puzzle of the Pyramid

Enter an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh's tomb to learn vocabulary, math, reading, science & logic, geography & maps, and problem solving. Key Features: • 24 activities at any of four levels • Build skills in 6 academic areas • A.D.A.P.T. learning technology adjusts the program as the player makes progress • Progress reports to monitor progress and celebrate achievements • Special practice mode to hone skills without affecting the score

ClueFinders® 5th Grade Adventures - Secret of Living Volcano

Explore a mysterious volcanic island to learn vocabulary, reading & history, math & fractions, science & circuitry, geography & maps, and language arts. Key Features: • Build skills in 4 academic areas • A.D.A.P.T. learning technology adjusts the program as the player makes progress • Progress reports to monitor progress and celebrate achievements • Special practice mode to hone skills without affecting the score

ClueFinders® 6th Grade Adventures - Empire of the Plant

People

Descend into the empire of the plant people to learn vocabulary, reading, math & science, history & culture, number computation and problem solving. Key Features: • Build skills in 6 academic areas • Problem solving help – click on animated character to get helpful hints • A.D.A.P.T. learning technology adjusts the program as the player makes progress • Progress reports to monitor progress and celebrate achievements • Special practice mode to hone skills without affecting the score

ClueFinders® Math Adventures - Mystery of the Himalayas

Trek into the world's highest mountain to learn multiplication, division, geometry, decimals, fractions, area & perimeter and problem solving. Grades 3-6+ Key Features: • 9 exciting interactive logic and problem-solving games • Build skills in more than 15 academic areas • A.D.A.P.T. learning technology adjusts the program as the player makes progress

• Smart Tutor Help -- click on animated characters to get helpful hints • Progress reports to monitor progress and celebrate achievements • Special practice mode to hone skills without affecting the score • Full color printed user guide included

ClueFinders® Search & Solve Adventures

Venture into a haunted carnival to learn spatial relationships, logical analysis, data collection, pattern recognition, hypothesis testing and more. Grades 3-6+ Features:

• More than 50,000 math problems • Build skills in more than 25 math areas • A.D.A.P.T. learning technology adjusts the program as the player makes progress • Smart Tutor Help -- click on animated characters to get helpful hints • Progress reports to monitor progress and celebrate achievements • Special practice mode to hone skills without affecting the score • Full color printed user guide included Critical Thinking Skills: • Pattern Recognition • Pattern Completion • Classification • Order & Sequence • Cause & Effect • Planning & Strategy • Hypothesis Testing • Spatial Relationships • Deductive Reasoning • Logical Analysis • Problem Solving • Data Collection • Visual Analogies

Edmark Thinkin' Science®

Five different areas in the Super Secret Science Station™ show young students the scientific method and concepts of basic earth, life and physical sciences. Students will learn to think like scientists as they solve problems using hypothesis, experimentation, observation, and deduction. Other skills students develop are memory, problem solving, following multiple steps, data interpretation, and measurement. Key Features: • Runs on Intel Macs and older Macs too • Five learning environments with hundreds of problems cover the major topics in K-2 science curriculum • Program adjusts to student's learning level by increasing in difficulty as student's learning progresses • Printable "treasures" (animal masks, puzzles, games and more) reward achievement • Single switch option increases accessibility for special needs students