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» What’s New Get up to speed on the latest product releases in the education market. Claymation Studio from Honestech (www.honestech.com) allows users to create stop-motion animation from imported photos, audio, music, and recorded soundtracks. Features include chroma key for superimposing new backgrounds and drag-and-drop simple frame editing. Online Software MIT Media Lab’s free Scratch software (http://scratch.mit.edu) allows ages 8 and up to create interactive stories, games, music, and animation for the Web with its new, user-friendly programming language, which lets kids program by snapping together graphical blocks. Paper Tools Pro 2.0 from ePen&Inc (www.papertoolspro.com) is designed to help students in middle school and up simplify and organize notetaking while preventing plagiarism. Features include Endnote importing capability bibliography creation, and a search query. ClickN’ Read Phonics from ClickN’ Kids (www .clicknkids.com) is a researched-based online phonics program that teaches children to read on their own via a series of 100 interactive lessons. The program includes letter identification, alphabetic principle, wording blending, and spelling. Fourier Systems’ (www.fourier-sys .com) mini-site for its Nova5000 one-to-one computing system offers tutorials for both the appliance Comic Book Creator from PlanetWide Media (www .mycomicbookcreator.com) creates comics by incorporating digital photos, music, sound effects, video, and animation. Users can choose from more than 100 professional layout and design templates, and version 2.0 is Vista compatible. and included software like Inspiration Concept Mapping and Learnstar. A complementary physics text also includes probeware Podium from RM Education (www.rmeducation.com/podium) is for use in experidesigned for the education market ments. and allows students of any age to create, edit, and publish podcasts from the same interface. School site licenses may be installed on an unlimited number of PCs. Scantron’s Class Climate 3.0 (www .scantron.com) course evaluation system now offers 44 | www.techlearning.com http://www.honestech.com http://wwww.clicknkids.com http://wwww.clicknkids.com http://scratch.mit.edu http://www.mycomicbookcreator.com http://www.mycomicbookcreator.com http://www.fourier-sys.com http://www.papertoolspro.com http://www.fourier-sys.com http://www.rmeducation.com/podium http://www.scantron.com http://www.scantron.com http://www.techlearning.com

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