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What have DASP schools been buying with their ELCs?
As a result of a survey of teachers in our schools, the following is a list of software that has been bought with e-learning credits by DASP schools, with brief teacher's comments where they were given. No specific recommendation is implied, but positive comments might assist in purchasing decisions. Software is not listed in any particular order. |
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Teachers Comments
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| Junior Viewpoint - Logotron | |
| Easiteach Maths - RM |
Very good Maths teaching tool. Good for interactive whiteboards Very good, especially with SEN |
| ICT Alive - RM | Looks good, still evaluating |
| First Workshop - Granada | Very easy to use |
| Cloze Pro - Crick | Very useful for many areas, integrates with Word. |
| Music Box - Topologika | |
| Cornerstones for Writing - Granada | Good for Key Stage 2 Writing |
| Roamer World - RM | Very good for Year 2: introduction to Logo. |
| Textease Studio - Softease | |
| Oxford Infant Atlas - Sherston | |
| Oxford Reading Tree - Sherston | Very useful for independent work or whole class reading on interactive whiteboard. |
| Teddy Bears Picnic - Sherston | |
| Interactive Comprehension (Yr 3 and 4) - Rigby Navigator | |
| Zoombinis Maths - TAG | General Maths activities for independent use. |
| E-Mail Detectives - Sherston | |
| Sibelius - SES | |
| Snapshot Numeracy - RM | Great potential |
| RM Maths - RM | |
| Easiteach Literacy - RM | |
| Snow White and the 7 Hansels - Tivola/RM | Excellent for fairy tale work, can change endings with entertaining results |
| Lesson Maker - Edutech | Covers all areas of ICT units |
| Local Studies - Soft Teach | Some difficulty in accessing |
| Evacuees - 4Mation | Good for History topic |
| Pingu a barrel of fun - BBC | Very useful for problem solving |
| Flexitree - Flexitree | Good branching tree program |
The following are some software titles that we have seen recently that might be of interest.
| 2Simple Music Toolkit | An excellent music package for introducing principles of composition. |
| 2Simple Developing Tray | A program in which children attempt to predict the missing words in a passage. A brilliant resource, especially when used as a group activity. |
| Easiteach Studio and Literacy | Studio is the framework program into which Literacy, Maths and (soon) Science can be plugged. Literacy makes a lot of activities very easy to achieve. For example, writing frames and cloze passages. |
Websites of software companies
Look here for further details of the software mentioned above.
2Simple: www.2simple.com
4Mation: www.4mation.co.uk
BBC: www.bbc.co.uk
Crick: www.cricksoft.com
Edutech: www.edutechsystems.co.uk
Flexitree: www.flexible.co.uk
Granada Learning: www.granada-learning.com
Logotron: www.logo.com
RM Easiteach: www.rm.com
Rigby Navigator: www.myprimary.co.uk
Sherston: www2.Sherston.com
Sibelius: www.sibelius.com
Soft Teach: www.soft-teach.co.uk
Softease: www.softease.com
TAG: www.taglearning.com
Topologika: www.topologika.co.uk
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