Adobe CS5.5 Design Premium Student and Teacher Edition

Adobe CS5.5 Design Premium Student and Teacher Edition Review

Adobe CS5.5 Design Premium Student and Teacher Edition Feature

• Ultimate software toolkit for eye-catching print, web, interactive, and mobile design
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Adobe CS5.5 Design Premium

Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, interactive, and mobile design

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What is Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium?

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium software is the ultimate toolkit for designing eye-catching print content, immersive digital magazines, elegant eBooks, dynamic PDF files, world-class websites, and interactive SWF content that displays consistently across screens of virtually any size.

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Deliver eye-catching designs for print, web, and devices such as tablets, e-readers, and smartphones using Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium software, the ultimate toolkit for designing content that captives audiences in multiple media. Create striking images and graphics, design high-impact print and digital publications (including eBooks), construct standards-based HTML5/CSS3 websites, and craft interactive content that is displayed consistently across screens of all sizes. CS5.5 Design Premium combines the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, Fireworks, and Acrobat Pro, as well as a complimentary subscription to Adobe CS Live online services. Enjoy creative freedom, precise control, and high-quality production for print, web, and mobile design.

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Typing Instructor For Kids Platinum (Windows/Mac)

Typing Instructor For Kids Platinum (Windows/Mac) Review

Typing Instructor For Kids Platinum (Windows/Mac) Feature

• Kids learn to type on an exciting adventure on Typer Island
• Teaches keyboard basics following an age-appropriate Typing Plan
• Step-by-step lessons, challenges, tests, and games motivate kids to keep typing
• Program offers rewards every step of the way; learn in English or Spanish
• Arcade-style play and multiple levels; 30+ game challenges

Typing Instructor for Kids Platinum

The Exciting Way for Kids to Learn to Type!

Kids learn to type on an exciting adventure on Typer Island. They learn all keyboard basics following an age-appropriate Typing Plan. Step-by-step lessons, challenges, tests, and games motivate kids to keep typing their way around the Island to reach the Castle, advance to the Lost City, and become touch-typists! Kids can learn in English or Spanish.

Kids type their way around Typer Island to reach the Castle and advance to the Lost City!

Island Adventure Theme Motivates Kids to Improve Typing Skills

Reward-Seeking Program!

This program offers rewards every step of the way! Kids visit distinct lands for lessons, challenges, tests, and games. They search for treasures, earn points, and add gold and jewels to their treasure box, on a journey to reach the Castle and become the Ruler of Typer Island. Once they reach the Castle, they advance to the Lost City, for more challenges and exciting games!

Explore Distinct Lands!

Kids visit The Old West, On the Water, In the Air, Over the Edge, and Under the Sea. They can take a break from lessons and go to Explorer Isle to play games, or to Story Lagoon to practice typing stories from Classic Literature and Fairy Tales.

Exciting Castle Adventures!

Once kids get to the Castle, they can play new games, like Tomb Typer and Xtreme Typing, and they can go to the Lost City for Treasure Quest and the ever-challenging Ziggy!

The Lost City is underwater and only accessible by first Capturing the Castle!

The Mysterious Lost City!

Kids get to visit the Lost City once they complete the lessons, tests, and challenges of all five lands on Typer Island and "Capture the Castle!" In the Lost City they can explore the ruins and the shipwreck, and play Treasure Quest, the first typing adventure game, and the challenging arcade action game, Ziggy.

30+ Game Challenges!

Typing Instructor for Kids Platinum uses "Entertainment Explosion," to make learning to type fun and exciting. Kids can play games in a variety of ways by selecting options from the game settings menu. Arcade-style play and multiple levels make games extremely challenging and fun.

Typing Challenges and Tests Increase Speed and Accuracy

Typing Challenges

There are over 30 typing challenges. These include:

• Comprehensive Evaluation
• Timed Challenges
• Advanced Level Challenges
• Multi-Level Game Challenges

Typing Tests

There are hundreds of tests in Typing Instructor Platinum for Kids. Tests measure speed and accuracy, and results are provided for adjusted words per minute, based on both typing accuracy and speed.

Instant Results Give Kids Incentive to Improve Keyboarding Skills

Typing Progress Results

Instant Feedback is provided on typing results. Kids can see how they did on a lesson, challenge, test, or game right away. Results are given for:

• WPM scores & Accuracy Percentages
• Results Calculated from All Activities
• Performance Assessment for Key, Finger, Hand & Row
• Printable Results
• Results Tracked for five Typists

Performance assessments are provided by key, finger, hand, and row.

Certificates of Achievement

Kids can print a certificate of achievement to show they have successfully conquered Typer Island and Rule the Island!

Charts and Feedback

Detailed results show kids the keys they know well and the keys that need more practice.

Creative Lessons and Exercises Help Kids Learn to Type

Step-by-Step Typing Instruction is provided, including proper posture, finger position, and ergonomic features. Visual Guides show finger/key placement.

Lesson Plans

Lessons include step-by-step instruction with visual 3D guide hands.

There are 10 customized lesson plans to teach kids of all ages to type:

• Learning the Home Row
• Home Row and Upper Row
• Home Row and Lower Row
• Ages 7-8
• Ages 9-10
• Games Plan
• Skill Building Plan
• Suggested Typing Plan (no games)
• Suggested Typing Plan

Learn in English and Spanish

There are 160 lessons, in English and Spanish. All lessons include:

• Structured Touch-Typing Content
• Proven Methods for Skill-Building
• Unique Drills & Interactive Exercises
• Age-Appropriate Content
• Graphic Guide Hands
• Standard & Split Keyboards
• Multi-Skill Levels

Multi-Level Games Make Learning to Type Fun

Typing Instructor for Kids Platinum has over 30+ Game Challenges! Kids can play games in a variety of ways by selecting options from the drop down menu, including words per minute (wpm), level of difficulty, and in some games, select an opponent. Games include multiple levels of play and points scored, so kids are motivated to win the first level, advance to the next level, and achieve a high game score!

Keep your fingers on the keyboard as you move your motorcycle across the desert in Xtreme Typing!

New! Xtreme Typing

This fast moving game teaches kids to keep their fingers on the keyboard to move their motorcycle across the desert and through the heart of the city. When they type accurately and faster than their target words per minute, they see a motorcycle stunt fest! Their bike makes several jumps, flies off ramps, rolls over limousines, and flies over buses.

New! Typing With Sharks

This action-packed, underwater adventure helps kids learn challenging keys on the keyboard. They type words quickly to zap hungry sharks and piranhas before they attack their submarine. The deeper they dive, the harder it is to escape, especially from the electric eel, giant squid and the boss shark.

New! Flotsam Fighter

Kids use their Flotsam Fighter Space Ship to clean-up space debris (flotsam), and save all four planets in the Aeon Galaxy by zapping space debris from around the planets. The more debris they collect, the more intergalactic credits they earn. Eight challenging levels of play help them develop their typing speed, typing accuracy, and save the Galaxy!

New! Tomb Typer!

This 3D interactive game helps kids to improve their typing skills and use their wits! They search an ancient Egyptian tomb by correctly typing words and characters to navigate their way through two levels of intriguing exploration for treasure.

The Features of Typing Instructor for Kids Platinum

Typing Plans

• Exclusive! Learn in English or Spanish!
• Exclusive! Choose from 10 Typing Plans for specific age groups!

Lessons

• Structured touch-typing content
• 160 Lessons
• Proven methods for skill-building
• Age-appropriate content
• Standard and split keyboard lessons
• 3D guide hands for all keyboards

Typing Challenges & Tests

• Exclusive! 30+ game challenges
• Exclusive! Advanced level challenges
• Proficiency tests and advancement level tests

Progress & Results

• Exclusive! Instantly tracks results!
• Exclusive! WPM scores and accuracy percentages
• Exclusive! Pass tests and get rewards
• Performance assessment for key, finger, hand, and row
• Results calculated from all activities
• Full-color progress charts and graphs
• Printable results
• Certificates of Achievement

Practice Activities

• Exclusive! Practice how to type and ergonomics
• Exclusive! Practice games on Explorer Isle and in the Castle Arcade
• Advanced skill-building lessons and challenges

Motivational Features

• Exclusive! Exciting castle-seeking theme
• Exclusive! Visit 5 unique lands on Typer Island
• Exclusive! Capture the Castle & advance to the Lost City

Games & Entertainment

• Exclusive! Multi-play games! Play games the way you want!
• Exclusive! Multi-level games! More challenges as you advance

Typing Instructor for Kids Platinum is the typing program for kids. It is the only typing software designed to teach young children to type that’s packed with just the right mixture of education, entertainment, and motivation, so kids can improve their typing skills quickly and see immediate results. Kids learn to type with 10 age-appropriate lesson plans for specific age groups, beginning with ages 6 & 7. Variety of ways to practice typing, with games, lessons, drills, advanced skill-building lessons and challenges, plus 40 engaging Practice Stories.

I Spy School Days

I Spy School Days Review

I Spy School Days Feature

• Dozens of new challenges are here for any child between the ages of 5-9 to explore
• With more than 1600 object-and-word searches in hundreds of clever pictures. Your kids will learn many new words and how to use them
• Play with riddles, puzzles, and games to develop your child's thinking skills
• As they play, children develop important learning skills such as reading, matching, and problem solving
• I Spy School Days challenges kids to use their heads

Help Clifford's owner handle all her chores before the Big Red Dog's birthday party! / Ages 4-8

Clipart Originals: Educational Clipart

Clipart Originals: Educational Clipart Review

Look smart with illustrations from Stock Clips'Educational ClipArt!Product InformationEnhance your projects with over 300 vector and bitmap images including animalssymbols food classroom objects and more. Plus with the handy browser andmultiplatform formats it's easy to see select and save the files you want.Product Features Over 300 original digital images Royalty-free and ready-to-use BMP TIFF EPS AND PICT formats Compatible with all major PC and Mac graphics software Browser makes viewing a snap Print-quality resolution at 300 x 300 pixels Windows Requirements Windows XP Vista 233 MHz processor or faster (300 MHz recommended) 64 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended) 170 MB free Hard Disk space 800 x 600 monitor 16-bit color 8X CD-ROM or DVD-ROM driveMacintosh Requirements Mac OS 7.5-9.2 OS X Classic mode OS X G3 300 MHz or faster or Intel processor 64 MB of RAM 170 MB free Hard Disk space 800 x 600 monitor 8X CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive 

Middle School Advantage 2010 [Old Version]

Middle School Advantage 2010 [Old Version] Review

Middle School Advantage 2010 [Old Version] Feature

• Middle School Advantage 2010 is a complete student resource center that combines lessons, exercises and quizzes with additional learning resources
• Provides an interactive learning experience and the tools students need to gain learning confidence and improve their grades
• Interactive lessons and exercises that reinforce classroom learning; brain-building games add fun to studying
• Allows your child to learn at his/her own pace, improve study habits, identify problem areas and review lessons as needed
• Includes helpful reference tools plus iPod study materials

Advantage provides an interactive learning experience and the tools students need to gain learning confidence and improve their grades. Help your child build a solid academic foundation with Middle School Advantage, a complete student resource center that combines lessons, exercises and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate your child in reaching his or her full academic potential.

Establish a firm understanding of essential math topics with self-paced tutorials that simplify complex concepts and problems. Click to enlarge.

Explore and examine the wonders of Life Science, from the building blocks of living organisms to the complex processes of the human body. Click to enlarge.

Understand the impact of historical events with a pictorial journey that illustrates the ongoing challenges and triumphs of the American people. Click to enlarge.

Learn to communicate effectively through a variety of lessons and exercises designed to improve verbal and written skills. Click to enlarge.

Build and perfect basic conversational skills in Spanish, French, German and Italian using an audio & flash card-based system. Click to enlarge.

The ADVANTAGE Approach to Effective Learning

ADVANTAGE uses a unique approach that combines interactive lessons, exercises, and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate students in reaching their full academic potential.

• Engage
  Interactive learning experience engages the student
  
  
• Reinforce
  Standards-driven lesson plan reinforces classroom learning
  
  
• Support
  Study aids & reference tools support the learning experience
  
  
• Motivate
  Brain-building games add fun to studying

Student Benefits

• Learn At Your Own Pace
• Improve Study Habits
• Identify Problem Areas
• Review Lessons As Needed

Student Resources

• Encyclopaedia Britannica Ready Reference
• iPod study materials

Study Break Extras

• Brain-building games

Core Curriculum

Math
Establish a firm understanding of essential math topics with self-paced tutorials that simplify complex concepts and problems.

• Pre-Algebra
• Algebra
• Measurement & Geometry
• Statistics, Data Analysis & Probability

Science
Explore and examine the wonders of Life Science, from the building blocks of living organisms to the complex processes of the human body.

• Living Organisms
• Plants & Animals
• The Human Body
• Cell Biology

Social Studies
Understand the impact of historical events with a pictorial journey that illustrates the ongoing challenges and triumphs of the American people.

• Early Civilizations
• Revolution & the New Nation
• The Civil War & Reconstruction
• The Great Depression & World Wars I & II
• The Contemporary United States

English
Learn to communicate effectively through a variety of lessons and exercises designed to improve verbal and written skills.

• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• Reading
• Writing

Foreign Language
Build and perfect basic conversational skills in Spanish, French, German and Italian using an audio & flash card-based system.

• Foods & Common Words
• Dates & Times
• Family Members
• Meeting & Greeting

PLUS: Brain-Building Games and iPod Study Materials!

Advantage provides an interactive learning experience and the tools students need to gain learning confidence and improve their grades. Help your child build a solid academic foundation with Middle School Advantage, a complete student resource center that combines lessons, exercises and quizzes with additional learning resources to support and motivate your child in reaching his full academic potential.With Middle School Advantage, your child will develop and test his knowledge in Math, English, Social Studies, Science and Foreign Language. Additional study aids such as iPod study materials and Encyclopedia Britannica Ready Reference will help support the learning process while brain-building games make studying fun!

Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat

Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat Review

Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat Feature

• Learn about animals (habitats, eating habits and classification); weather, clouds; the solar system; earth science; the human body and its systems; electricity and magnetism.
• Targets: 6 to 10 years old
• Four (4) levels of difficulty
• A marvelously 3D universe, seen from the perspective of a mouse.
• This story-based title is a wonderful mix of educational and entertainment.

This wonderful title from the award-winning Mia series allows children from 6 to 10 years old to learn about animals, their habitats, their eating habits and classification; the solar system; the human body; the clouds; the planets; the water cycle and much more ! With four (4) levels of difficulty, it offers a story, a quest and an adventure while using a unique navigation that provides real-time control of the main character, Mia. The title features a marvelously rich 3D universe, seen from the perspective of a mouse, feature-film quality animation, colorful and endearing characters and educational activities that are both enriching and entertaining. The activities give the children a chance to test their knowledge about or learn for the first time age-appropriate scientific concepts and scientific terminology. The Mia series has won over 130 awards including Best e-learning program from the United Nations. Story: Mia has borrowed her mother’s fancy new hat without her permission and it has been snatched by the evil rat Romaine and his cousins. Mia needs your help to retrieve the lost hat, and then find her way back home. Some Awards: Winner - Upper Elementary Science Category - Bessie Awards (USA); Grand Prize, Educational Software category -

Brainiversity

Brainiversity Review

Brainiversity Feature

• Get ready to have fun with Edison, your mental personal trainer!
• Daily Chart tracks results for up to 6 people on one computer
• Practice mode allows you to hone your skills and play your favorite activities any time you want
• "Hey, this game is making me smarter already!" - Gamezebo

To stay fit and healthy, we should regularly exercise our bodies, and the brain is no different. Brainiversity is a game designed to stimulate your brain with 16 different activities covering Language, Memory, Math and Analysis. You can track your progress with daily exams and compare your results with your friends and family. Best of all, Brainiversity is fun!

Mia's Math Adventure: Just In Time [Old Version]

Mia's Math Adventure: Just In Time [Old Version] Review

Mia's Math Adventure: Just In Time [Old Version] Feature

• Guide Mia in her quest to find the parts for the time machine, and collect sparklies to use as fuel
• Explore a rich and captivating new world, with film-quality animation -- but watch out for Romaine Rat, he's always up to no good
• Teaches addition, subtraction, multiplication & division; geometry; logic; angles and lines, mental computation & other skills
• Age-appropriate difficulty levels that match national education curriculum

Mia's Math Adventure proposes a captivating story including numerous educational activities all of which focus on developing math skills such as fractions geometry logic mental computation...KEY FEATURES Four levels of difficulty that follow the classroom curriculumMarvelously rich 3D universe Colorful and endearing characters 2 CDs for hours of fun-filled entertainment!KEY SUBJECTS: Fun Subjects Addition & Subtraction Multiplication & Division Geometrical Shapes Thinking Skills Plus much more System Requirements:Windows CPU: Pentium II 400 MHz; RAM: 128 MB; Video: 640x480 (256 colors); Sound: 16-bits Sound-Blaster or 100% compatible; 6x CD-ROM; 40 MB of hard drive disk space Macintosh CPU: G3 233 MHz iMac; RAM: 64 MB; Video: 640x480 (256 colors); Sound: Standard Macintosh; 6x CD-ROM; 40 MB of hard drive disk spaceFormat: WIN 9598ME2000XP/MAC 8.6-9.X (CLASSIC)X10.1 Genre: CHILDREN Age: 6 to 10 UPC: 632332061208 Manufacturer No: 61208

Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade

Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Review

Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Feature

• Re-playable skill-building activities encourage hours of learning fun
• Two ways to play: Practice specific skills, or learn through following a fun-filled adventure
• Skill levels adjust automatically to your child's unique abilities Builds core competencies in language arts, math, logic, and science

This imagination workshop encourages children to exercise their creative skills and design one-of-a-kind masterpieces! Reader Rabbit is trapped in the Dragon's Castle and he wants Sam the Lion to save him! But Sam needs a lot of help! Can he count on you to help him solve the mysteries of this bizarre castle?

Reader Rabbit Playtime for Baby and Toddler [OLD VERSION]

Reader Rabbit Playtime for Baby and Toddler [OLD VERSION] Review

Reader Rabbit Playtime for Baby and Toddler [OLD VERSION] Feature

• Matching and Differences
• Emotions,Early Vocabulary and more
• Movement and Coordination Letters and Numbers

It had to happen: software is now being bundled for your little bundle of joy. Reader Rabbit Playtime for Baby & Toddler will never be a substitute for the tactile joys of real life, but this software does manage to capture infants' and toddlers' attention with bright, happy images and a format that responds well to chubby, not-so-coordinated hands.

In Playtime for Baby, a game of tag between Reader Rabbit and Mat the Mouse ends with Mat hiding in a toy box. With Mat's help, each of the 10 toys in the box leads the baby into a new experience: singing, manipulating shapes, playing hide-and-seek, discovering body parts, reading storybooks, and (oh joy!) rummaging in drawers to make music. Your baby controls the action by hitting any key on the keyboard (or just hitting the keyboard, as they are wont to do) or simply moving the mouse. No clicks are required. The cursor is a big fat star that leaves a trail of twinkles. Brushing it against an object onscreen will elicit anything from a childlike giggle to a kerplunk to the appropriate animal noise.

The only critique of this CD is that the artwork is simplistic. It would be nice to see more depth and smoother movement, if only to make the program more enjoyable for the adults who must guide their babies through it. Other than that, by developing cupboards with no locks, personalized storybooks with pages that don't rip, and farm animals willing to engage in endless games of hide-and-seek, the creators of Playtime for Baby have managed to tap into a baby's wildest dreams.

Playtime for Toddler has a lusher look than Playtime for Baby. Again, mouse movements or keyboard pokes inspire action in nine activities that include things that send most toddlers into fits of joy. One of the better games is Bubble Castle, where your toddler "pops" bubbles with animals in them, and the freed creatures gallop into a castle and peep from the windows. This simple payoff engaged one 2-year-old tester for many minutes, shouting "Bye-bye, animal!" each time she liberated a critter. Pop and Play Place teaches matching and music as toddlers activate three jack-in-the-boxes until whatever pops out matches, upon which they are rewarded with a song ("We are mice, we are nice. We say please when we want cheese!"). In Follow Me Theater, Reader Rabbit acts out hand-motion hits like "Eensy Weensy Spider" and "I'm a Little Teapot." Other activities include a puzzle and color tutorial called Sky Shapes; Peekaboo Jungle, where kids investigate animal noises with a flashlight cursor; a Musical Meadow; an ABC Train that teaches letters with the help of slick animation and audio; and Baby Basket Bingo, a cute bit of business that requires toddlers to reunite baby animals with their parents based on the tiny roar or peep that comes from the creature hidden in the basket. Rainbow Rock is the only loser in the bunch, a coloring program that doesn't even attempt to teach colors.

One of the best features of Playtime for Toddler is that younger babies can bang on the keyboard and automatically get "correct" results, while older ones can use the mouse to drag the cursor in a mode that involves more trial and error. Both options are available at once; no settings need to be changed. Clicking does nothing here, which may puzzle some tykes who have already discovered that clicking gets results in grownup programs. Overall, this is a decent bundle for babies, with Playtime for Toddler being the stronger, more realistic offering of the two. (Ages 1 to 3) --Anne Erickson Two programs in one! Includes: Reader Rabbit Playtime for Baby - a stimulating and playful environment filled with toys and much more! Plus, with Reader Rabbit's Toddler kids can travel to a fantastic world!