Friday, 20 April 2012

Active GIF Creator 3.5 (AGIF)

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Active GIF Creator 3.5 (AGIF) is a powerful, intelligible, compact and affordable gif maker for creating and optimization animated GIF- images, buttons, banners and other Web graphic that attract attention of your site visitors. With Active GIF Creator you can: make GIF and AVI- animations for the Web and presentation materials; make banners; make 2D and 3D buttons; make various graphic using effects and other program tools; add hidden signatures to GIFs to protect...

Thursday, 12 April 2012

Mount Everest, How Tall Is It? - A Mathematics Mystery

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Last night I started to read Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance 1921 which I downloaded for free from Google Books. In the introduction there is a three page explanation of the methods used to measure the height of Mount Everest. An explanation of the differences in measurements is also provided in the introduction. Part of that explanation includes differences in snow fall, cyclical deviations of gravity, and differences atmospheric refraction when observations were made. I'm not a mathematics...

Sunday, 8 April 2012

OpenRocket 12.03-an Open Source model rocket simulator

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OpenRocket is a free, fully featured model rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate your rockets before actually building and flying them. OpenRocket features a full six-degree of-freedom simulation, realistic wind modeling, a multitude of different components including free-form fins and canted fins, clustering and staging. Read more about its features and see screenshots. OpenRocket is an Open Source project licensed under...

Monday, 2 April 2012

Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office

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 Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office is a great application. It focuses mainly on Students and Teachers to help in their school work. It contains the following programs (1) Learning Essentials for Students (2) Learning Essentials for Teachers They both include a lot of templates you could imagine to be useful in school work. Templates for book report, class debate, essays, etc are for students. All of them have different subcategories like different types of essays, and their...

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Download MotionBuilder Personal Learning Edition 7.0

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Autodesk gives industry professionals and those interested in real-time character animation an opportunity to explore all aspects of this award-winning technology while developing new skills. This special version of Autodesk MotionBuilder provides free access to the software, with no time limit, for non-commercial use. Available for the Windows? XP Professional and Mac OS? X operating systems. Autodesk MotionBuilder Personal Learning Edition offers almost every feature found in the full commercial...

Monday, 26 March 2012

Tips on using the method of creative learning in learning mathematics

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This article provides a set of tips for raising your awareness of learning styles as a major factor in how children learn. These tips are adapted from the resources listed at the end of this article. The tips are based on the Dunn & Dunn Learning Styles Model developed by Professors Rita and Kenneth Dunn to assist the New York State Department of Education in improving the effectiveness of instruction for students not demonstrating sufficient progress. The model is based on 20...

Saturday, 24 March 2012

Autodesk Homestyler - 3D Software, Freeware

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Homestyler is a free online service that provides access to home design software created by Autodesk. Free products and services are subject to the terms of use that accompany them. One of the biggest challenges to a decorating or home remodeling project is envisioning how everything will look. Now that is easier than ever before with Autodesk Homestyler. -Quickly create layouts with drag-and-drop rooms, doors, and furnishings -Easily experiment with styles, colors, and finishes -Include...

Thursday, 22 March 2012

New Software : Adobe Lightroom 4

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Create stunning images with a full set of superior image processing tools and the freedom to experiment in a nondestructive editing environment. Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 software lets you make powerful overall adjustments, target specific areas of your photo, and much more. Photo book creationPhoto book creation Create beautiful photo books from your images. Lightroom includes easy one-click automatic layouts, or you can select from a variety of page layouts to customize your book...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Sharpening Mathematical Logical Intelligence Children

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Indeed, every child is born with the potential of smart and the uniqueness of each that allows them to be intelligent. Howard Gardner in his Multiple Intelligences have, said there were eight intelligences in humans including: verbal/linguistic intelligence/language, logical mathematical intelligence, visual/spatial intelligence/spatial, musical/rhythmic intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, physical intelligence, and intrapersonal intelligence naturalist. Duties of...

Monday, 19 March 2012

Games in Learning

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The Games in Learning project focuses on how game play, game study, game development and game innovation can be used to improve student learning outcomes. The project includes workshops, practicums, a conference and research and development. Why games in learning?Digital games already play an important role in many students' lives. In the 2006 financial year, Australians spent more than $1 billion on digital game hardware and software. Purposefully selected games blended with carefully constructed...

Saturday, 17 March 2012

Showcase Education : engaging educational resources made easy

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A selection of simple educational resources for you to adapt for particular projects for younger pupils. Older pupils can also use Opus for general curriculum tasks or for specific qualifications such as DiDA. For the working files to these publications visit our Resource section.  Water Cycle Animation A small animation of the water cycle intended to illustrate the use of the tween animation as a way of animating processes. Made with Opus Creator for output in...

Friday, 16 March 2012

Free Unit Converter For Math and Science

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Free Unit Converter(805KB) is a quick and effective way to make easy unit conversions between 5000 various units of measure in 21 categories. It has an easy-to-use interface and contains most of the units commonly encountered while solving unit conversion problems. Free Unit Converter is a powerful unit converter with conversion factors for Weight, Length, Volume, Area, Temperature, Speed, Acceleration, Time, Pressure, Power, Energy, Torque, Fractions, Computer Storage, Data Transfer...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

MathType 6.7 - Equation Editor Equations Everywhere and Anywhere

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MathType is a powerful interactive equation editor for Windows and Macintosh that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, elearning, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents. Features & Benefits MathType is a Universal application supporting both Intel and PowerPC Macs. MathType works with Mac OS X 10.4.9 Tiger or later, including 10.7 Lion. Works with Many Applications and Websites  Apple...

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

OpenOffice.org Programs

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OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. OpenOffice.org is easy to learn, and if you're already using another...

Sunday, 11 March 2012

Great Microsoft Outlook Alternative : Free E-Mail Client For Windows

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So far, there has never been a good Outlook alternative for Windows. Outlook has been the ruler of Office/Email products for quite long. Though there was Mozilla Thunderbird, it had its limitations. There is hope now, with eM Client for Windows. Free for Home/Personal use, is a great email client with extensive features to handle meetings, calendar, tasks, threaded email view, facebook, skype integration, advanced contacts etc. This wil be a smooth way to handle your emails. For commercial...

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Create graph "Love Function" Using Google

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Google continuesly spoils its users, and this time especially for you – the math lovers. Google has announced its new service by integrating a facility that allows users to plot graphs of mathematical functions in its search engine. Simply start with the command plot or graph, and type the functions to be plotted using simple syntax. Google will display the graph function in a wink. Here are the graphs of some basic functions. plot cos x, x/5, exp x Below is a graph of the "love function"...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

GeoGebraTube is a Community Site for Teachers

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GeoGebraTube is a community site for teachers who teach with GeoGebra to share and find a wide range free resources. On GeoGebraTube visitors will find user-created tutorials, lessons, and worksheets. Visitors can search for resources by age group, language, and material type. All materials are freely available for noncommercial reuse. Applications for Education If you're a mathematics teacher whose school is using GeoGebra, GeoGebraTube could be a good reference to bookmark. When you start...

Monday, 5 March 2012

Educational Software

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In a broader sense, the term edutainment describes an intentional merger of computer games and educational software into a single product (and could therefore also comprise more serious titles described above under children’s learning software). In the narrower sense used here, the term describes educational software which is primarily about entertainment, but tends to educate as well and sells itself partly under the educational umbrella. Software of this kind is not structured towards school curricula,...

Sunday, 4 March 2012

Teaching Geometric Constructions using Math Open Reference

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Teaching geometric constructions has always been a challenge. The rules are easy enough - compass, straightedge, no measuring. But for the teacher the challenges come quickly. How to actually demonstrate them in class? How will the students remember the steps when trying it themselves? What happens when they do the homework? In the classroom To demonstrate the constructions in class we have the usual choices: Compasses and straightedge on a whiteboard or overhead projector. Software...

Saturday, 3 March 2012

Math Learning Software

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Math learning need support so learning more interesting and meaningful. Therefore, teachers must prepare learning material as well. In order to create a good teaching material must be supported with math learning software, because of the inordinate use of mathematical symbols. Here I refer to mathematical software that can be downloaded. 1. CalcuTray CalcuTray is a simple, quick and easy to use calculator that resides in the system tray and enables you to quickly perform a mathematical...

Friday, 2 March 2012

Computer access fromTeamViewer

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There are times when we want to access a computer that is not in front of us with ease, whether it is to solve problems, collaborate with each other, want to access data / programs on other computers or other. If both computers are connected to the Internet, then it can be done easily using the TeamViewer software. TeamViewer is one of the Remote Desktop software is quite popular and widely used because of its simplicity, excellence and be able to run on various operating systems, like Windows,...