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Software Evaluation and Reviews

"Choosing School Software" Article by Tammy Payton. http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/article/soft.htm. Article discusses issues regarding to selecting educational software.

"Seven Steps to Responsible Software Selection - http://www.netc.org/software/eric_software.html - Article provides information about software selection.

SuperKids Educational Software Review - http://www.superkids.com/ Provides unbiased reviews of children's software by parents, teachers, and kids.

Software Reviews - Teaching K-8 Online Magazine - http://www.teachingk-8.com/frm/fs_technology.html gives indepth reviews of parents' and educators' favorite kids software.

Software Reviews by EducationWorld - http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech102.shtml - See how your favorite software programs are rated EducationWorld's team of educators and technology experts.

Scholastic - http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/ softwarereviews/index.htm - Reviews of some of the best educational software titles across the curriculum.

Software Evaluation Form - http://feurerpc.oet.udel.edu/softrev/ - Teachers can download or print this ready-made evaluation form for their own use , or to use with their students.

Software Suggestions for K-12

New York City Department of Education - http://www.nycenet.edu/oit/software.htm. This list includes tool software in the 'Project Smart' classrooms as well as some of the software across the curriculum suggested by teachers in the field.

ISTE National Educational Technology Standards - http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_rsoftware.html - This is an extensive suggested list of classroom software. ISTE also provides a database of curriculum integration lessons using some of these software programs.

Scholastic's Star Software -http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/topsoftware/ softwarereviews/starsoftware.htm - Education software experts bring you the top software picks in reading, writing, social studies, and math.

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Tutorials for School Software

New York City Department of Education - Office of Instructional Technology - http://www.nycenet.edu/oit/tutorials.htm Tutorials recommended by the provide a quick way to learn how to use software that is commonly found on school computers, from desktop publishing to creating Web pages.

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Software Preview Downloads and Shareware

Download -- Macromedia's Products - http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/ Try any number of programs by Macromedia.

Download -- Netscape Browser - http://home.netscape.com/download/index.html. If you need a Web page creator, download Netscape and then use the Composer component as an HTML editor.