Category: Software
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K Sketch
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] K Sketch is a piece of animation software for windows computers, it produces files as flash animations. The results are very quick and I would say it can be a lot faster than using powerpoint to do equivalent animations. There is a youtube channel that has a number of tutorials.…
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Free software
I have posted in the past about lots of great free software. However I did not have a central place for the links. I have fixed that, if you look to the right you will see the new “Free Software” links. I will post new links here as I use or find them. It might…
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Creating an advert for the screensaver
So our new whole school photo screen saver is now up and running. There are still a couple of bugs to be worked out the system but these can be worked around just now. The screens in the school are nearly all 4×3 aspect ratio. This means when you create your advert you need to…
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Photosynth
This has been around for a while and I always meant to get round to using it but there was never the occation. Well this week our pupils have been hard at work creating and designing our new entrance space. We have used a blog to gather ideas and plan a wall display with all…
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XP Login Screen saver
It seemed like such an easy task when I started doing it. Take a powerpoint slideshow and display it before the user logins in, on our workstations. I wanted to display revision notes on our XP workstations in the Business ICT suites, when they were sitting unused. I settled on exporting the slides as JPGs…
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Muvizu
I was looking for some easy to use 3d animation software, Alice is nice but not exactly easy to get into. I found a review on the register and it took me to Muvizu, what a cracking little piece of Windows software. I confess to not having used it for hours (yet) but first impressions are magic.…
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Cheaper software
I am a big supporter of open source software. You just have to look down my posts to see that most of these pages use “free” software or sites. It is worth bearing in mind however, that you can get full versions of software packages for student and teacher prices. Have a look around the…
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Free Microsoft programs
I thought I would share this article with you. It covers a range of free Microsoft products (or add ons) that you should find useful at all levels of education.
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Powerpoint Overload
I see a lot of powerpoints in use and I have made use of quite a few over the years, a lot of them are weak at best. I found this article while looking for a way to improve what I was offering. It makes good clear sense and although I may not agree with…
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Super Computers
China has now got the fastest computer on the planet according to the top 500 list. These super computers are custom built to allow organisations to carry out research that requires a large amount of maths. They often cost hundreds of thousands of pounds and are well used. However, there is another way to create…
