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SOFTWARE/STANDARDS EVALUATION

Software_title: Adobe Photoshop 5.5
District: Chazy Central Rural School
Date_of_entry: 5/4/2000
School_representative: Diane S. Coupal
Author: Diane S. Coupal/Margaret Gruetzmacher
Email: dcoupal@mum.neric.org
Publisher: Adobe Systems Inc.
Cost: $400 full; $200 upgrade
Format: MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 9-12
Multimedia: graphics
NYS_Learning_Standards: ARTS
Software_type: Productivity Tool, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 2
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Arts Standard 1: Creating, Performing and Participating in the Arts

Students will actively engage in the processes that constitute creation and performance in the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts) and participate in the various roles in the arts.

Visual Arts

1) Students will make works of art that explore different kinds of subject matter, topics, themes, and metaphors. Students will understand and use sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive images to communicate their own ideas in works of art. Students will use a variety of art materials, processes, mediums, and techniques, and use appropriate technologies for creating and exhibiting visual art works.

Arts Standard 2: Responding to and Analyzing Works of Art

Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.

Visual Arts

2) Students will know and use a variety of visual arts materials, techniques, and processes. Students will know about resources and opportunities for participation in visual arts in the community (exhibitions, libraries, museums, galleries) and use appropriate materials (art reproductions, slide print materials, electronic media). Students will be aware of vocational options available in the visual arts.

Performance_Indicators

* experiment and create art works, in a variety of mediums (drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, video, and computer graphics), based on a range of individual and collective experiences.

* demonstrate an increasing level of competence in using the elements and principles of art to create art works for public exhibition.

* develop skills with electronic media as a means of expressing visual ideas.

* use the computer and other electronic media as designing tools and to communicate visual ideas.

* use the computer and electronic media to express their visual ideas and demonstrate a variety of approaches to artistic creation.

Exemplars

Students will merge several different media types into one finished photo using a variety of approaches and their imagination.

Comments

Adobe Photoshop 5.5 is a high productivity tool. It is easily introduced but mastery takes considerable time and is best done in small groups or individually.

Software_title: Arthur's First Grade
District: Ticonderoga
Date_of_entry: 5/15/00
School_representative: Robert R. Porter
Author: Robert R. Porter
Email: bporter@neric.mum.org
Publisher: The Learning Company
Cost: $30.00
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 1
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: ELA
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Simulation, Reference, Productivity Tool, Tutorial, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: individual
Management_system: record keeping, report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

ELA Standard 1 - Language for Information and Understanding (Elementary)

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.

1) Listening and reading to acquire information and understanding involves collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and using knowledge from oral, written, and electronic sources.

Performance_Indicators

* gather and interpret information from children's reference books, magazines, textbooks, electronic bulletin boards, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, and from such forms as charts, graphs, maps, and diagrams.

Exemplars

* Follow directions that involve a few steps.
* Accurately paraphrase what they have heard or read.

Comments

Software_title: CCC/First Adventures Bookshelf
District: Ogdensburg City School District
Date_of_entry: 4/06/00
School_representative: Kennedy School/L. Krol
Author: Kim Richards
Email: krichards@ogdensburg.neric.org
Publisher: CCC
Cost: $350
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: networkable
Grade_level: K
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation, full-motion video
NYS_Learning_Standards: ELA
Software_type: Problem Solving, Reference, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: record keeping, modify instruction, report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 3
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 3
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

English Language Arts

Standard - 1 Language for Information and Understanding (Elementary)

Listening and Reading

Listening and reading to acquire information and understanding involves collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and using knowledge from oral, written, and electronic sources.

Performance_Indicators

* will make appropriate and effective use of strategies to construct meaning from print, such as prior knowledge about a subject, structural and context clues, and an understanding of letter-sound relationships to decode difficult words.

Exemplars

Students will follow directions that involve a few steps.

Comments

The book list did not appear to contain any popular children's literature titles.

Software_title: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (no version #)
District: Saranac Central School District
Date_of_entry: 5/10/00
School_representative: Larry Garrow
Author: Alicia Chase
Email: amchase@westelcom.com
Publisher: Davidson/Simon and Schuster
Cost: $29.95
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: PreK-K
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation, full-motion video
NYS_Learning_Standards: ELA
Software_type: Problem Solving, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

ELA Standard 2 - Language for Literacy Response and Expression (Elementary)

Performance_Indicators

* read a variety of literature of different genres: picture books; poems; articles and stories from children's magazines; fables, myths and legends; songs, plays, and media productions; and works of fiction and non-fiction intended for young readers.

Exemplars

Retell, recite or sing a picture book (Chicka Chicka Boom Boom) using picture clues and practice derived from use of computer program to add meaning to the story.

Comments

Software_title: Dietary Analysis
District: Voorheesville Central School
Date_of_entry: 5/8/00
School_representative: Frank Faber
Author: Nancy Haller
Email: ffaber@gw.neric.org
Publisher: Orange Juice
Cost: $45.00
Format: PC
Media_type: disk
Grade_level: 7-12
Multimedia: graphics
NYS_Learning_Standards: PHE
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Problem Solving, Simulation, Reference, Tutorial, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: record keeping, modify instruction, report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 3
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 1 - Personal Health and Fitness (Commencement)

Students will have the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical activity and maintain personal health.

Home Economics

1) Students will use an understanding of the elements of good nutrition to plan appropriate diets for themselves and others. They will know and use the appropriate tools and technologies for safe and health food preparation.

Performance_Indicators

* Apply knowledge of food choices and menus to plan a balanced diet, use new technologies to plan and prepare nutritious meals for a variety of dietary needs.

* Adjust their own diet to accommodate changing levels of activity or to meet their nutritional needs throughout the life cycle.

Exemplars

Comments

Although extensive, not all foods are listed. Students must find something similar which renders analysis inaccurate.

Software_title: Discover The Elements
District: Voorheesville
Date_of_entry: 4/3/00
School_representative: Frank Faber
Author: E. Sullivan
Email: ffaber@gw.neric.org
Publisher: Clearvue/eav.inc.
Cost: $99.95
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 6-10
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Simulation, Reference, Productivity Tool, Tutorial, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: record keeping
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 0
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

MST

Standard 4 - Science (Commencement)

Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

Physical Setting

3) Matter is made up of particles whose properties determine the observable characteristics of matter and its reactivity.
4) Energy exists in many forms and when these forms change energy is conserved.
5) Energy and matter interact through forces that result in changes in motion.

Performance_Indicators

* 3.1 explain the properties of material in terms of arrangements and properties of the atoms that compose them.

* 3.2 Use atomic and molecular models to explain common chemical reaction.

* 3.3 Apply principle of conservation of mass to chemical reaction.

* 3.4 Use Kinetic molecular relationship to explain rate of reactions and the relations hip among temperature, pressure and volume of a substance.

* 4.3 Explain variations in wavelengths and frequency in terms of the source of the vibrations that produce them, e.g.. molecules, electrons, and nuclear particles.

* 4.4 Explain the uses and hazards of radioactivity.

* 5.2 Explain chemical bonding in terms of the motion of electrons

* 5.3 Compare energy relationship within an atom's nucleus to those outside the nucleus.

Exemplars

Use the atomic theory of elements to justify their choice of an element for use as a lighter than air gas for a

Represent common chemical reactions using three- dimensional models of the molecules involved.

Discuss and explain a variety of everyday phenomena such as different types of flames that come from a Bunsen burner

Construct drawings, models and diagrams representing several different types of chemical bonds to demonstrate the bases of the bond, the strength of the bond, and the type of electrical attraction that exists.

Software_title: Family Tree Maker 3.02
District: Chazy Central Rural School
Date_of_entry: 5/4/2000
School_representative: Diane S. Coupal
Author: Diane S. Coupal/Keith Lunn
Email: dcoupal@mum.neric.org
Publisher: The Learning Co. (Broderbund)
Cost: $135
Format: MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 3 to Adult
Multimedia: graphics
NYS_Learning_Standards: SS
Software_type: Problem Solving, Productivity Tool, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 3

Learning_Standard_Referenced

SS Standard 1: History of the United States and New York (Elementary)

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.

2) Important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions from New York State and United States history illustrate the connections and interactions of people and events across time and from a variety of perspectives.

SS Standard 2: World History (Elementary)

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

1) The study of world history requires an understanding of world cultures and civilizations, including an analysis of important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions. This study also examines the human condition and the connections and interactions of people across time and space and the ways different people view the same event or issue from a variety of perspectives.

Performance_Indicators

* recognize how traditions and practices were passed from one generation to the next.

* distinguish between near and distant past and interpret simple timelines.

* gather and organize information about the important accomplishments of individuals and groups, including Native American Indians, living in their neighborhoods and communities.

* explore narrative accounts of important events from world history to learn about different accounts of the past to begin to understand how interpretations and perspectives develop.

Exemplars

Students will prepare and present an extensive project entitled ”My Family and Me” illustrating the performance indicators from above.

Comments

This software is best used by students with adult guidance, particularly if Internet connections are going to be used.

Software_title: Franklin Learns Math
District: Beekmantown Central School District
Date_of_entry: 5-12-00
School_representative: Judy Quint
Author: John Connery
Email: kjbcon@together.net
Publisher: Theatrix Interactive
Cost: 50.00 sing.
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: Pre-K-2
Multimedia: audio, animation, full-motion video
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST, ARTS
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Problem Solving, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: individual
Management_system: record keeping, modify instruction
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Mathematics - Standard 3 (Elementary)

Students will understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematics in real-world settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number systems, geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability and trigonometry.

Interdisciplinary Problem Solving - Standard 7 (Elementary)

Students will apply the knowledge and thinking skills of mathematics, science, and technology to address real-life problems and make informed decisions.

ARTS Standard 2 - Knowing and using Arts materials & Resource (Elementary)

Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.

Performance_Indicators

recognizing patterns number recognition addition and subtracting of integers telling time counting money

Exemplars

3 differing levels

-recognize patterns with picture, shapes, and number-select missing item. -recognizing number with digits, counters, equations -telling time with digital or analog clocks -given a specific amount, able to group variety of coins to match amounts

Comments

Great program where so many core math concepts are group together in one program. Children love characters, music, and examples. Will ask to use this program repeatedly. Three levels give chance to address varying levels of ability in each area.

Software_title: Golden Book Enc. #2.0
District: Saranac
Date_of_entry: 5/14/00
School_representative: Larry Garrow
Author: Georgia Tamer
Email:
Publisher: Josten's Learning
Cost: $39.99
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 1-6
Multimedia: audio, graphics, full-motion video
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Reference, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 0
Question_7: 0
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

MST Standard 2 - Information Systems (Elementary)

Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

Information Systems

1) Information technology is used to retrieve, process, and communicate information and as a tool to enhance learning.

Performance_Indicators

* access needed information from printed media, electronic data bases and community resources
* use a variety of equipment and software packages to enter, process, display and communicate information in different forms using text, tables, pictures and sound

Exemplars

research information on a particular topic
see and hear specific events as they happened (ex. Martin Luther King's speech, I Have A Dream)
use the Notebook section to take beginning notes

Software_title: Grammar Games
District: Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk
Date_of_entry: 5/1/00
School_representative: Barbara Winne
Author: Barbara Winne
Email: Winne49@aol.com
Publisher: Educational Software Institute
Cost: $69.99
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 7-10
Multimedia: audio, graphics
NYS_Learning_Standards: ELA
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Reference, Tutorial, Remediation
Instructional_setting: individual
Management_system: record keeping
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 3
Question_3: 3
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 3
Question_9: 3
Question_10: 3

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 4 - Language for Social Interaction (Intermediate)

Students will read, write, listen and speak for social interaction.

Listening and Speaking

1) Oral communication in formal and informal settings requires the ability to talk with people of different ages, genders, and cultures, to adapt presentations to different audiences, and to reflect on how talk varies in different situations.

Reading and Writing

2) Written communication for social interaction requires using written messages to establish, maintain, and enhance personal relationships with others.

Performance_Indicators

* express ideas and concerns clearly and respectfully in conversations and group discussions
* use verbal and nonverbal skills to improve communication with others
* write social letters, cards, and electronic messages to friends, relatives, community acquaintances, and electronic network users
* use appropriate language and style for the situation and the audience and take into account the ideas and interests expressed by the person receiving the message

Exemplars

Students will:

-identify their own grammar challenges
-practice using standard written and oral English

Comments

This software creatively adds interest to a subject that is often difficult to motivate through traditional classroom instruction. Although it is "advertised" as useful in grades 4-adult, both ranges may be a stretch (I've suggested grades 7-10). It is interdisciplinary in that the four levels of grammar games concern ecology. Pretest scores "assign" students to their appropriate beginning levels in areas such as sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, usage and punctuation.

Software_title: I Spy
District: Ogdensburg
Date_of_entry: 4-28-00
School_representative: Linda Krol
Author: Karen Wright
Email: wright@northnet.org
Publisher: Scholastic
Cost: $41.95
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: K-4
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST, ELA
Software_type: Problem Solving, Productivity Tool, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 3
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 2
Question_9: 3
Question_10: 3

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Mathematics - Standard 3 (Elementary)

Students will understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in real-world settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number systems, geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability, and trigonometry.

Patterns/Functions

7) Students use patterns and functions to develop mathematical power, appreciate the true beauty of mathematics, and construct generalizations that describe patterns simply and efficiently.

Performance_Indicators

* recognize, describe, extend, and create a wide variety of patterns.
* solve for an unknown using manipulative materials.
* use a variety of manipulative materials and technologies to explore patterns.
* discover patterns in nature, art, music and literature.

Exemplars

Students sort through mazes and objects, recognizing shapes and colors, mentally organizing them while remembering the object being sought. Students use picture and beginning letter recognition to build clues in constructing words and solving riddles.

Comments

Software_title: Inspiration 6.0
District: Queensbury Union Free School
Date_of_entry: 5/19/00
School_representative: Lisa Fedele
Author: Doug Silvernell
Email: dsilvern@mum.neric.org
Publisher: Inspiration
Cost: $55
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 3-12
Multimedia: graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST, ELA, SS
Software_type: Productivity Tool, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 3
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 3
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

ELA - Standard 1 - Language for Information and Understanding

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.

ELA Standard 3 - Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.

Performance_Indicators

Students will be able to take information and place it in a graphic organizer

Exemplars

Students Can Create: -Web diagrams -Outlines -Semantic webs -Story boards -Cause & effect diagrams -Flow charts

Comments

This new version of Inspiration improves on the old version in a variety of ways. There are a lot more symbols in the libraries than there were. Inspiration has also refined a lot of the Internet functionality. Hot links within semantic webs are allowed. This is a great tool to help teach process writing skills, and cooperative learning skills.

Software_title: Jump Start Phonics
District: Ticonderoga
Date_of_entry: 5/15/00
School_representative: Robert R. Porter
Author: Robert R. Porter
Email: bporter@neric.mum.org
Publisher: Knowledge Adventure
Cost: $20.00
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: K-1
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: ELA
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Simulation, Reference, Productivity Tool, Tutorial, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: individual
Management_system: record keeping, report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

ELA Standard 1- Language for Information and Understanding (Elementary)

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.

Listening and Reading

Performance_Indicators

Exemplars

* Follow directions that involve a few steps.
* Accurately paraphrase what they have heard or read.

Comments

Software_title: Just Grandma and Me
District: Chazy Central Rural School
Date_of_entry: 5/4/2000
School_representative: Diane S. Coupal
Author: Diane S. Coupal/Kathi Thume
Email: dcoupal@mum.neric.org
Publisher: The Learning Co. (Broderbund)
Cost: $20
Format: MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: Pre K, K, 1
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: ELA, LOTE
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Problem Solving, Simulation, Tutorial, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

LOTE Standard 1 - Communication Skills

Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication.

Modern Languages

1) Listening and speaking are primary communicative goals in modern language learning. These skills are used for the purposes of socializing, providing and acquiring information, expressing personal feelings and opinions, and getting others to adopt a course of action.

ELA Standard 1 - Language for Information and Understanding (Elementary)

Listening and Reading

ELA Standard 2: Language for Literary Response and Expression (Elementary)

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.

Listening and Reading

1) Listening and reading for literary response involves comprehending, interpreting, and critiquing imaginative texts in every medium, drawing on personal experiences and knowledge to understand the text, and recognizing the social, historical and cultural features of the text.

ELA Standard 3: Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation (Elementary)

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.

Listening and Reading

1) Listening and reading to analyze and evaluate experiences, ideas, information, and issues requires using evaluative criteria from a variety of perspectives and recognizing the difference in evaluations based on different sets of criteria.

ELA Standard 4: Language for Social Interaction (Elementary)

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.

Listening and Speaking

Performance_Indicators

* comprehend language consisting of simple vocabulary and structure in face-to-face conversation with peers and familiar adults.

* read aloud accurately and fluently, using phonics and context cues to determine pronunciation and meaning.

* make decisions about the quality and dependability of texts and experiences based on some criteria, such as the attractiveness of the illustrations and appeal of the characters in a picture book, or the logic and believability of the claims made in an advertisement.

* listen attentively and recognize when it is appropriate for them to speak.

Exemplars

Students will learn the vocabulary in French, German and Spanish associated with Just Grandma and Me. Students will demonstrate proficiency with the sticker challenges in the “Let Me Play” section. Students’ computer skills will improve.

Comments

There is an additional bonus to this software. Many children will also enjoy looking at the book version, which is one of the best early-reading books available to help build a child’s reading comprehension.

Software_title: Kid Pix Deluxe
District: St. Regis Falls Central School
Date_of_entry: 5/2/00
School_representative: Nelson Chasney
Author: Amy Fraser
Email: nchasney@eudoramail.com
Publisher: Broderbund
Cost: $40.00
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: K - 6
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: ELA
Software_type: Problem Solving, Productivity Tool
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 3
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 3
Question_9: 3
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

ELA

    Standard 1 - Language for Information and Understanding
    Standard 2 - Language for Literacy Response and Expression
    Standard 3 - Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation
    Standard 4 - Language for Social Interaction

Performance_Indicators

ELA - Standard 1 - Speaking and Writing - bullets 1,2,3,4,6,7 Standard 2 - Speaking and Writing - bullets 3,4 Standard 3 - Speaking and Writing - bullets 3,4 Standard 4 - Reading and Writing - bullets 1,2

Exemplars

Students will write and illustrate their own books, reports, and letters to pen pals. Students will create slide shows. Students will design tee shirts around a theme (earth day, personal qualities)

Comments

Software_title: KidPix Studio Deluxe
District: Queensbury UFSD
Date_of_entry: 5-10-00
School_representative: L. Fedele
Author: Nancy Burgei
Email: www.broderbund.com/education
Publisher: Broderbund
Cost: $31.99/unit
Format: PC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: K- Adult
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: ARTS
Software_type: Productivity Tool, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: modify instruction
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 3
Question_3: 3
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 1- Creating, Performing and participating in the Arts

Performance_Indicators

1. Students will experiment and create art works, in a variety of mediums (drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, video, and computer graphics), based on a range of individual and collective experiences.

Exemplars

Students will use a variety of techniques to draw, design, and generate computer-assisted graphics.

Comments

Software_title: Language Toolkit Reader
District: Beekmantown Central School District
Date_of_entry: 5/9/200
School_representative: Gary Lambert/ Judy Quint
Author: Jacek Iwanski
Email: jaceki@kagi.com
Publisher: Jacek Iwanski
Cost: $36
Format: MAC
Media_type: CD, online
Grade_level: 7-12
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation, full-motion video
NYS_Learning_Standards: LOTE
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Tutorial, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: small group, individual
Management_system: modify instruction
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 3
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

LOTE - Standard 1 - Communication Skills

Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication.

Modern Languages

2) Reading and writing are used in languages other than English for the purposes of socializing, providing and acquiring information, expressing personal feelings and opinions, and getting others to adopt a course of action.

Performance_Indicators

• read and comprehend materials written for native speakers when the topic and language are familiar.
• use cognates and contextual and visual cues to derive meaning from texts that contain unfamiliar words, expressions, and structures
• read simple materials independently, but may have to guess at meanings of longer or more complex material

Exemplars

Read personal letters and notes written in this program, and discuss the positions presented in them

Comments

Language Toolkit Reader is an interactive multimedia program for language learning. It features the integrated use of text, illustrations, sound, QuickTime movies, vocabulary, exercises based on text and sound, and notes on grammar. You use the program to access lessons which are prepared separately. A teacher can prepare multimedia lessons for any target language by using the companion program 'Language Toolkit Writer'. Associated programs 'Verbs & Nouns' and 'V&N Lookup' give access to additional support in the way of dictionaries, and offer the opportunity for further practice of inflection and translation at the level of single words.

Software_title: Leonard's Multimedia Toolbox
District: Queensbury Union Free School
Date_of_entry: 5/12/00
School_representative: Lisa Fedele
Author: Doug Silvernell
Email: dsilvern@mum.neric.org
Publisher: NEC
Cost: $62
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 3-8
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST, ELA, SS, ARTS
Software_type: Productivity Tool, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 3
Question_2: 3
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 3
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 2
Question_9: 3
Question_10: 3

Learning_Standard_Referenced

ELA - Standard 1 - Language for Information and Understanding

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.

ELA Standard 3 - Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.

Performance_Indicators

Students will be able to take information they have researched, and place it in a presentation. They will take into account the impact of graphics when dealing with a presentation.

Exemplars

Students Can Create: -Art work -Multimedia presentations -graphics

Comments

If you have not already bought into the concept of HyperStudio, you may want to preview Leonardo's Multimedia Toolbox first. It has some nice feature s not found in HyperStudio. However, if you already use HyperStudio, you may find the investment in Leonardo's' would be a waste of time.

Software_title: Macbeth
District: Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk
Date_of_entry: 4/6/00
School_representative: Barbara Winne
Author: Barbara Winne
Email: Winne49@aol.com
Publisher: Voyager
Cost: $39.95
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 9-12
Multimedia: full-motion video
NYS_Learning_Standards: ELA
Software_type: Reference, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 3
Question_3: 3
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 3
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 3

Learning_Standard_Referenced

English Language Arts

Standard - 1 Language for Information and Understanding (Commencement)

Listening and Reading

1) Listening and reading to acquire information and understanding involves collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and using knowledge from oral, written, and electronic sources.

Standard 2 - Language for Literary Response and Expression (Commencement)

Speaking and Writing

2) Speaking and writing for literary response involves presenting interpretations, analyses, and reactions to the content and language of a text. Speaking and writing for literary expression involves producing imaginative texts that use language and text structures that are inventive and often multilayered.

Performance_Indicators

(Standard 1)
* use a combination of techniques to extract salient information from texts
* write and present research reports, feature articles, and/or thesis papers on a variety of topics related to all school subjects
* support interpretations and decisions about relative significance of information with explicit statement, evidence and appropriate argument
* revise and improve early drafts by restructuring, correcting errors, and revising for clarity and effect
* use standard English skillfully, applying established rules and conventions for presenting information and making use of a wide range of grammatical constructions and vocabulary to achieve an individual style that communicates effectively

(Standard 2)
* identify the distinguishing features of literary genres, periods and traditions and use those features to interpret the work
* recognize and understand the significance of literary elements and techniques and use those elements to interpret the work * understand how multiple levels of meaning are conveyed in a text
* evaluate literary merit based on an understanding of the genre, the literary elements, and the literary period and tradition
* present responses to an interpretations of works of recognized literary merit -produce literary interpretations that explicate the multiple layers of meaning
*use standard English skillfully and with an individual style

Exemplars

Students will:

-use this source and others to present research (orally and/or written) on genre, history and/or literature
-perform oral interpretive reading
-write a thesis-based paper revealing proficiency and maturity in organization, reasoning, style and vocabulary

Comments

This program has interdisciplinary potential in that it provides historical background to Shakespeare and the Elizabethan period.

A segment of the CD allows students to choose a role and act scenes from the play with professional actors in Karaoke fashion.

Software_title: Math Blaster for 2nd Grade
District: Ticonderoga
Date_of_entry: 5/15/00
School_representative: Robert R. Porter
Author: Robert R. Porter
Email: bporter@neric.mum.org
Publisher: Knowledge Adventure
Cost: $30.00
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 2
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Problem Solving, Simulation, Reference, Productivity Tool, Tutorial, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: small group, individual
Management_system: record keeping
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Mathematics - Standard 3 (Elementary)

Mathematical Reasoning

1. Students use mathematical reasoning to analyze mathematical situations, make conjectures, gather evidence, and construct an argument.

Performance_Indicators

* use models, facts, and relationships to draw conclusions about mathematics and explain their thinking.
* use patterns and relationships to analyze mathematical situations
* justify their answers and solution processes.
* use logical reasoning to reach simple conclusions.

Exemplars

* Build geometric figures.
* Find patterns and sequences of numbers.
* Explore number relationships.

Comments

Software_title: Math Blaster I
District: Beekmantown Central School District
Date_of_entry: 5-12-00
School_representative: Judy Quint
Author: Leslie LaValley
Email: sales@education.com
Publisher: Davidson & Assoc.,Inc.
Cost: 25.00
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 1-7
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Problem Solving, Simulation
Instructional_setting: individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Mathematics - Standard 3 (Elementary)

Mathematical Reasoning

1) Students will use mathematical reasoning to analyze mathematical situations, make conjectures, gather evidence, and construct an argument.

Performance_Indicators

* Add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers.
* Select appropriate standard and nonstandard measurement tools in measurement activities.

Exemplars

-Have students demonstrate as many ways as they can showing a given sum. -Using a centimeter ruler, have the students measure various items with lengths measuring less than the size of the ruler. -Have students compare possible differences in measuring results.

Comments

The children enjoy this software very much.

Software_title: Math Processor
District: St. Regis Falls Central
Date_of_entry: 5/01/00
School_representative: Nelson Chasney
Author: Nelson Chasney
Email: nchasney@eudoramail.com
Publisher: Computer Curriculum Corporation
Cost: $499
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: networkable
Grade_level: 5-9
Multimedia: graphics
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Simulation, Productivity Tool, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 3
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 3
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 3
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 3
Question_10: 3

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 2 - Information Systems

Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

Performance_Indicators

Students use a software package to enter, process, display, and communicate information in different forms using text, tables, pictures and sounds.

Exemplars

Students use Math Processor to create spreadsheets and graphs from a project they have completed using Math Investigations.

Comments

Good source for manipulatives and tools used to support the mathematics curriculum.

Software_title: Mind Castle 3.5
District: Ogdensburg City School District
Date_of_entry: 4/26/00
School_representative: Ogdensburg/Linda Krol
Author: Pam Boyle
Email: pboyle@ogdensburg.neric.org
Publisher: Lawrence Productions
Cost: $30
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: disk
Grade_level: 5-8
Multimedia: audio, graphics
NYS_Learning_Standards: ELA
Software_type: Problem Solving, Simulation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 3
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 3
Question_4: 2
Question_5: 1
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 3
Question_9: 3
Question_10: 3

Learning_Standard_Referenced

English Language Arts

Standard - 1 Language for Information and Understanding (Elementary)

Listening and Reading

1) Listening and reading to acquire information and understanding involves collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and using knowledge from oral, written, and electronic sources.

Performance_Indicators

* Support inferences about information and ideas with reference to text features such as vocabulary and organizational patterns

* Make appropriate and effective use of strategies to construct meaning from print, such as prior knowledge about a subject, structural and context clues, and an understanding of letter-sound relationships to decode difficult words

Exemplars

Students will solve word puzzles and riddles using context clues.

Comments

The Mind Castle instructions are in the accompanying booklet and not on the screen.

This does come with a Teacher's Resource Guide with additional activities, quizzes and the list of vocabulary words used in Mind Castle.

Software_title: MS Access 2000
District: Massena Central Schools
Date_of_entry: 5/9/00
School_representative: Mark R. Petersen
Author: Mark R. Petersen
Email: mpeterse@mum.neric.org
Publisher: Microsoft
Cost: $100.00
Format: PC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 9-12
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation, full-motion video
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Simulation, Reference, Productivity Tool, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: record keeping, modify instruction, report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 3
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 3
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 0
Question_9: 3
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 5 - Technology (Commencement)

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Performance_Indicators

3. Computer Technology

* Understand basic computer architecture and describe the function of computer subsystems and peripheral devices.
* Select a computer system that meets personal needs.
* Develop an understanding of computer programming and attain some facility in writing computer programs.

4. Technological Systems

* Explain how complex technological systems involve the confluence of numerous other systems.

5. History and Evolution of Technology

* Explain how technological inventions and innovations have caused global growth and interdependence, stimulated economic competitiveness, created new jobs, and made other jobs obsolete.

6. Impacts of Technology

* Explain that although technological effects are complex and difficult to predict accurately, humans can control the development and implementation of technology.
* Explain how computers and automation have changed the nature of work.
* Explain how national security is dependent upon both military and nonmilitary applications of technology.

7. Management of Technology

* Develop and use computer-based scheduling and project tracking tools, such as flow charts and graphs.
* Explain how statistical process control helps to assure high quality output.
* Discuss the role technology has played in the in the operation of successful U.S. businesses and under what circumstances they are competitive with other countries.
* Help to manage a group engaged in planning, designing, implementation, and evaluation of a project to gain understanding of the management dynamics.

Exemplars

Students create an Access database for Earth Science in which they maintain records on soil samples that they have collected and generate reports that summarize the results of this quantitative research.
Students use an Access database in Social Studies to collate and present biographic information on famous American inventors.
In Business Ed. students create a simulated product inventory in Access.

Comments

With MS Access, teachers and students have the ability to organize information in a meaningful way by creating, maintaining and manipulating relational databases. Although potentially applicable in all subject areas, the program is especially applicable in MST; and, within the context of MST, can be used to address virtually any NYS Standard/Performance Indicator/Exemplar.

Software_title: MS Excel 2000
District: Massena Central Schools
Date_of_entry: 5/9/00
School_representative: Mark R. Petersen
Author: Mark R. Petersen
Email: mpeterse@mum.neric.org
Publisher: Microsoft
Cost: $100.00
Format: PC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 7-12
Multimedia: audio, graphics
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Problem Solving, Simulation, Reference, Productivity Tool, Tutorial, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: record keeping, modify instruction, report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 3
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 0
Question_9: 3
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 5 - Technology (Commencement)

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Performance_Indicators

3. Computer Technology

* Explain how complex technological systems involve the confluence of numerous other systems.

5. History and Evolution of Technology

* Explain how technological inventions and innovations have caused global growth and interdependence, stimulated economic competitiveness, created new jobs, and made other jobs obsolete.

6. Impacts of Technology

7. Management of Technology

Exemplars

Students use Excel in Chemistry to create a periodic table of the elements that contains hyperlinks to web sites containing information on individual elements or groups of elements.
In Business, students use an Excel sales template and the chart utility in Excel to explore the relation between flat-table data and different modes of graphing.
Junior High Math students create Excel forms that 2nd and 3rd grade students can use to practice basic addition, subtraction and multiplication skills.

Comments

Using MS Excel 2000, teachers and their students can create a range of instructional materials, including invoices, ledgers and charts, that enable them to effectively organize, calculate and analyze data. It is generally applicable across all subject areas; although it is especially appropriate for MST and can be used to address virtually any NYS MST Standard/Performance Indicator/Exemplar.

Software_title: MS FrontPage 2000
District: Massena Central Schools
Date_of_entry: 5/9/00
School_representative: Mark R. Petersen
Author: Mark R. Petersen
Email: mpeterse@mum.neric.org
Publisher: Microsoft
Cost: $100.00
Format: PC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 6-12
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation, full-motion video
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST, ELA, SS, ARTS, LOTE, CDOS, PHE
Software_type: Simulation, Reference, Productivity Tool, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: record keeping, modify instruction
Question_1: 2
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 3
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 3
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 0
Question_9: 3
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 5 - Technology (Commencement)

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Performance_Indicators

3. Computer Technology

* Explain how complex technological systems involve the confluence of numerous other systems.

5. History and Evolution of Technology

* Explain how technological inventions and innovations have caused global growth and interdependence, stimulated economic competitiveness, created new jobs, and made other jobs obsolete.

6. Impacts of Technology

7. Management of Technology

Exemplars

Students create a High School Science Club web site in FrontPage.
As a means of simulating current business practices, business students design and maintain simulated corporate web sites using FrontPage.
High School biology students create a web-based science "Learning Center" that is used as a learning resource by 5th and 6th grade students.

Comments

MS FrontPage is the ultimate Office 2000 application for creating Web publications. Teachers and students can use it to create a wide range of web materials. The software is applicable across all subject areas, and can be used to address virtually any NYS Standard/Performance Indicator/Exemplar.

Software_title: MS PhotoDraw 2000
District: Massena Central Schools
Date_of_entry: 5/9/00
School_representative: Mark R. Petersen
Author: Mark R. Petersen
Email: mpeterse@mum.neric.org
Publisher: Microsoft
Cost: $100.00
Format: PC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 6-12
Multimedia: graphics
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST, ELA, SS, ARTS, LOTE, CDOS, PHE
Software_type: Problem Solving, Simulation, Productivity Tool, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 3
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 3
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 0
Question_9: 3
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 5 - Technology

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Performance_Indicators

3. Computer Technology

* Explain how complex technological systems involve the confluence of numerous other systems.

5. History and Evolution of Technology

* Explain how technological inventions and innovations have caused global growth and interdependence, stimulated economic competitiveness, created new jobs, and made other jobs obsolete.

6. Impacts of Technology

* Develop and use computer-based scheduling and project tracking tools, such as flow charts and graphs.
* Help to manage a group engaged in planning, designing, implementation, and evaluation of a project to gain understanding of the management dynamics.

Exemplars

Art students studying Modern Art use PhotoDraw to create "photo paintings" that imitate modern painting styles like Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism.
Business students create business cards for actual local businesses that are printed and used by those businesses.
Students in English use PhotoDraw to create covers for reports that they are doing on American poets.

Comments

Teachers and students will find MS PhotoDraw a rather powerful medium for creating electronic artwork, customizing existing computer graphics and manipulating many types of electronic images. Although ideally suited to use in the visual arts, PhotoDraw is potentially applicable across all subject areas, and can be used to address virtually any NYS Standard/Performance Indicator/Exemplar.

Software_title: MS PowerPoint 2000
District: Massena Central Schools
Date_of_entry: 5/9/00
School_representative: Mark R. Petersen
Author: Mark R. Petersen
Email: mpeterse@mum.neric.org
Publisher: Microsoft
Cost: $100.00
Format: PC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 3-12
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation, full-motion video
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST, ELA, SS, ARTS, LOTE, CDOS, PHE
Software_type: Problem Solving, Simulation, Reference, Tutorial, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 0
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 5 - Technology (Commencement)

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Performance_Indicators

3. Computer Technology

* Explain how complex technological systems involve the confluence of numerous other systems.

5. History and Evolution of Technology

* Explain how technological inventions and innovations have caused global growth and interdependence, stimulated economic competitiveness, created new jobs, and made other jobs obsolete.

6. Impacts of Technology

7. Management of Technology

Exemplars

Students use PowerPoint slideshows for English that provide multimedia biographical sketches of American novelists.
In Biology, students design PowerPoint slideshows that illustrate the different phases of cellular mitosis.
Students create PowerPoint slideshows in Social Studies that survey the sectional differences between North and South that led to the Civil War.

Comments

A robust multimedia application, MS PowerPoint allows teachers and students to produce clear, attention-getting and persuasive communication through slide shows that combine sound, graphics, animation effects and video. The program is applicable across all subject areas, and can be used to address virtually any NYS Standard/Performance Indicator/Exemplar.

Software_title: MS Publisher 2000
District: Massena Central Schools
Date_of_entry: 5/9/00
School_representative: Mark R. Petersen
Author: Mark R. Petersen
Email: mpeterse@mum.neric.org
Publisher: Microsoft
Cost: $100.00
Format: PC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 3-12
Multimedia: graphics
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST, ELA, SS, ARTS, LOTE, CDOS, PHE
Software_type: Problem Solving, Simulation, Reference, Productivity Tool, Tutorial, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: modify instruction, report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 0
Question_9: 3
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 5 - Technology (Commencement)

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Performance_Indicators

3. Computer Technology

* Explain how complex technological systems involve the confluence of numerous other systems.

5. History and Evolution of Technology

* Explain how technological inventions and innovations have caused global growth and interdependence, stimulated economic competitiveness, created new jobs, and made other jobs obsolete.

6. Impacts of Technology

7. Management of Technology

Exemplars

Art students create promotional materials in Publisher, including flyers, posters and invitations, in support of the annual art show.
Students use Publisher in English to write personal collections of short stories and poets that are "published" using Publisher booklet templates.
Social Studies students create and distribute simulated newsletters in Publisher that present opposing views on the issue deforestation of the rain forests.

Comments

MS Publisher is a full-featured desktop publishing application that allows teachers and their students to create instructional materials like newsletters, brochures, flyers, catalogs and booklets. Publisher is applicable across all subject areas, and can be used to address virtually any NYS Standard/Performance Indicator/Exemplar.

Software_title: MS Word 2000
District: Massena Central Schools
Date_of_entry: 5/9/00
School_representative: Mark R. Petersen
Author: Mark R. Petersen
Email: mpeterse@mum.neric.org
Publisher: Microsoft
Cost: $100.00
Format:
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 3-12
Multimedia: audio, graphics
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST, ELA, SS, ARTS, LOTE, PHE
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Problem Solving, Simulation, Productivity Tool, Tutorial, Remediation
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: modify instruction, report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 3
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 3
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 0
Question_9: 3
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 5 - Technology (Commencement)

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

3. Computer Technology

4. Technological Systems

5. History and Evolution of Technology

6. Impact of Technology

7. Management of Technology

Performance_Indicators

3. Computer Technology

* Explain how complex technological systems involve the confluence of numerous other systems.

5. History and Evolution of Technology

* Explain how technological inventions and innovations have caused global growth and interdependence, stimulated economic competitiveness, created new jobs, and made other jobs obsolete.

6. Impacts of Technology

* Develop and use computer-based scheduling and project tracking tools, such as flow charts and graphs.
* Explain how statistical process control helps to assure high quality output.
* Discuss the role technology has played in the operation of successful U.S. businesses and under what circumstances they are competitive with other countries.
* Help to manage a group engaged in planning, designing, implementation, and evaluation of a project to gain understanding of the management dynamics.

Exemplars

Social Studies students create in Word reports on medieval history and culture that include hyperlinks to appropriate web sites.
Chemistry students complete lab reports on electronic forms that were created using Word.
Students use Word in Business to create form letters that merge with simulated data that has been collected in an Access database.

Comments

MS Word 2000 is a powerful general-purpose word processing program that allows teachers and their students to create a wide range of instructional materials, such as reports, brochures, booklets and charts. It is applicable across all subject areas, and can be used to address virtually any NYS Standard/Performance Indicator/Exemplar.

Software_title: Pajama Sam 3
District: Ticonderoga
Date_of_entry: 5/15/00
School_representative: Robert R. Porter
Author: Robert R. Porter
Email: bporter@neric.mum.org
Publisher: Humongous
Cost: $25.00
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 1-4
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Problem Solving, Simulation, Reference, Productivity Tool, Tutorial, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: small group, individual
Management_system: record keeping
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 4 - Science (Elementary)

The Living Environment

1. Living things are both similar to and different from each other and nonliving things.

Performance_Indicators

* Describe the characteristics of and variations between living and nonliving things.
* Describe the life processes common to all living things.

Exemplars

Students identify the functions of major organs and how they work.

Comments

Software_title: Pinball Science
District: Saranac Central School
Date_of_entry: 5/13/2000
School_representative: Larry Garrow
Author: DK David MaCaulay
Email: longd@westelcom.com
Publisher: DK Interactive Learning
Cost: $29.95
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 4-8
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Problem Solving, Simulation
Instructional_setting: small group, individual
Management_system: record keeping
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 0
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 4 - Science

Physical Setting

1) The Earth and celestial phenomena can be described by principles of relative motion and perspective.

Standard 5 - Technology

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Computer Technology

3) Computers, as tools for design, modeling, information processing, communication, and system control, have greatly increased human productivity and knowledge.

Performance_Indicators

Standard 4 - #4 forms of energy and changes - noted and applied
Standard 4 - #4 forms of energy and changes - noted and applied
Standard 4 - #5 describe the effects of common forces on objects
Standard 5 - #3 computers as tools for design, modeling

Exemplars

Standard 4 - #4 apply data to construct
Standard 4 - #5 investigate simple machines and apply knowledge to design a pinball machine and play it
Standard 5 - #3 model and simulate a system using construction modeling software

Comments

Highly motivated my students

Software_title: Planet Earth PPC 2.0.6
District: Beekmantown Central School District
Date_of_entry: 5/9/2000
School_representative: Gary Lambert/Judy Quint
Author: None listed
Email: support@lunarsoft.com
Publisher: Lunar Software
Cost: $19.95
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 7-12
Multimedia: graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Reference, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

MST Standard 2 - Information Systems

Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

Performance_Indicators

use simple logical reasoning to develop conclusions, recognizing that patterns and relationships present in the environment assist them in reaching these conclusions.

Exemplars

Students will be able to identify weather patterns in one area of the world over time and construct conclusions about how those patterns affect the people and environment in those areas.

Comments

This program is an incredible asset for people who want to show their students real-time information about our planet from cloud cover, earthquakes, day/night zones, web cams. This is a unique interactive program that allows you to have the world on your computer and with an internet connection, update it is real time using NOAA data and other data.

Software_title: Rain Forest Elementary 2-5
District: Saranac Central School District
Date_of_entry: 5/15/00
School_representative: Larry Garrow
Author: Alyce Fradenburg
Email: afradenburg@cves.org
Publisher: Visions Technology in Education
Cost: $90.00
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD, networkable
Grade_level: 2-5
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST, ELA, SS
Software_type: Problem Solving, Simulation, Reference, Productivity Tool
Instructional_setting: individual
Management_system: record keeping, modify instruction, report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 4 - Science (Elementary)

ELA Standard 1 - Language for Information and Understanding (Elementary)

Students will speak read and write for information and understanding.

SS Standard 2 -World History (Elementary)

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global--including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth's surface.

Performance_Indicators

* use a variety of equipment and software packages to enter, process, display and communicate information in different forms using text, pictures, and sound.
* access needed information from media, electronic data bases and community resources.
* gather and interpret information from children’s reference books, magazines, textbooks, electronic bulletin boards, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, and from such forms as charts, graphs, maps, and diagrams
* communicate about how people live, work, and utilize natural resources.
* locate rainforests on a world map.
* gather and organize geographic information from a variety of sources and display it in a number of ways.
* identify and compare physical characteristics of different regions and people.

Exemplars

Students -will list characteristics of a rainforest, locate rainforests on maps and list animals that live in the rainforest -explain why rainforests are important to us

Comments

This is a great piece of software and includes many terrific teacher resources.

Software_title: Roller Coaster Tycoon
District: St. Regis Falls Central
Date_of_entry: 5/2/00
School_representative: Nelson Chasney
Author: Lyndon Farmer
Email: farmclan@northnet.org
Publisher: MicroProse
Cost: $29.00
Format: PC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 5+
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST, ELA
Software_type: Simulation
Instructional_setting: small group
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

MST

Standard 3 - Mathematics
Standard 7 - Interdisciplinary Problem Solving

ELA - Standard 1 - Language for Information and Understanding

Performance_Indicators

MST - Standard 3 - Engineering Design 1a,1b,1c Standard 7 - Connections 1b

ELA - Standard 1 - Listening and Reading 1a,1b,1e

Exemplars

Students will work together to design a roller coaster in an amusement park based on some specific criteria.

Comments

Software_title: Sammy's Science House
District: Saranac Central School
Date_of_entry: 5/15/00
School_representative: Larry Garrow
Author: Diane R. Neyenhouse
Email: d9house@together.net
Publisher: EdMark
Cost: $50.00
Format: MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: K-3
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Problem Solving, Simulation, Reference, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: small group, individual
Management_system: report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Standard 1 - Analysis, Inquiry, and Design

Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.

Standard 2 - Information Systems

Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

Standard 3 - Mathematics

Measurement

5) Students use measurement in both metric and English measure to provide a major link between the abstractions of mathematics and the real world in order to describe and compare objects and data.

Standard 4 - Science

Physical Setting

1) The Earth and celestial phenomena can be described by principles of relative motion and perspective.

The Living Environment

1) Living things are both similar to and different from each other and nonliving things.

Standard 5 - Technology

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Engineering Design

1) Engineering design is an iterative process involving modeling and optimization used to develop technological solutions to problems within given constraints.

Computer Technology

3) Computers, as tools for design, modeling, information processing, communication and system control, have greatly increased human productivity and knowledge.

Standard 6 - Interconnectedness: Common Themes

Systems Thinking

1) Through systems thinking, people can recognize the commonalities that exist among all systems and how parts of a system interrelate and combine to perform specific functions.

Models

2) Models are simplified representations of objects, structures, or systems used in analysis, explanation, interpretation, or design.

Equilibrium and Stability

4) Equilibrium is a state of stability due either to a lack of changes (static equilibrium) or a balance between opposing forces (dynamic equilibrium).

Performance_Indicators

Engineering Design: plan and build, on the computer, a model of various objects from our world.
Information Systems: Use a variety of equipment and software packages to enter, process, display and communicate information in different forms using text, tables, pictures, and sound.
Understand attributes of temperature. Describe patterns of daily, monthly, and seasonal changes in their environment. Describe the characteristics of and variations between living things.
Use the computer as a tool for generating and drawing ideas.
Identify common things that can be considered to be systems.
Discover that a model of something is different from the real thing but can be used to study the real thing.
Cite examples of systems in which some features stay the same while other features change.

Exemplars

Generate, draw and print models of transportation and buildings. Create different weather conditions consistent with information entered. Describe the changes from season to season for a given animal. Sort and categorize plants and animals by various characteristics. Research different animals in the "Seasons" component of the software program.

Comments

Software_title: Scholastic Wiggleworks Plus
District: Ogdensburg City Schools
Date_of_entry: 4/26/00
School_representative: Linda Krol
Author: Mary Toole
Email: Mtoole@ogdensburg.neric.org
Publisher: Scholastic
Cost: A component of the Scholastic Literacy Place Reading Program
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: k-2
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: ELA
Software_type: Productivity Tool, Tutorial, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: small group, individual
Management_system: record keeping, modify instruction, report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

English Language Arts

Standard 2 - Language for Literary Response and Expression (Elementary)

Students will read, write, listen and speak for literary response and expression.

Speaking and Writing

Performance_Indicators

* create their own stories, using elements of literature that they've read and appropriate vocabulary.

Exemplars

-write new endings or sequels to familiar stories.
-create own short story to keep in the classroom library.

Software_title: Score Builder for the SAT and ACT
District: Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk
Date_of_entry: 4/27/00
School_representative: Barbara Winne
Author: Barbara Winne
Email: Winne49@aol.com
Publisher: The Learning Company
Cost: $29.99
Format: PC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 9-12
Multimedia: animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST, ELA
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Reference, Tutorial, Remediation
Instructional_setting: individual
Management_system: record keeping, modify instruction
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Because of the nature of this program, ELA, Math and Science standards are INDIRECTLY supported.

Performance_Indicators

See Learning Standards

Exemplars

The student will- -create an SAT/ACT study plan -complete lessons corresponding to SAT/ACT sections -consult the "Reference" and "Word Rally" options for review and practice -take practice SAT/ACT tests

Comments

Having used and previewed several SAT/ACT programs, this is the best I've seen. It provides a test introduction, menu of topics and corresponding lessons, a study plan option, college information (students view average test scores from institutions across the nation), reference tools and a web link. There is a "Word Rally" feature that entertainingly simulates a race car trip that students proceed on by correctly identifying vocabulary. A bank of tests (diagnostic and practice varieties) is also included on the CD.

Software_title: Storybook Weaver Deluxe
District: Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk
Date_of_entry: 4/6/00
School_representative: Barbara Winne
Author: Barbara Winne
Email: Winne49@aol.com
Publisher: MECC
Cost: $24.95
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 2-5
Multimedia: audio, graphics
NYS_Learning_Standards: ELA
Software_type: Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: small group, individual
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 3
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

English Language Arts

Standard 2 - Language for Literary Response and Expression (Elementary)

Students will read, write, listen and speak for literary response and expression.

Listening and Reading

Speaking and Writing

Performance_Indicators

* understand the literary elements
* read aloud accurately and fluently, using phonics and context clues to determine understanding and meaning
* create their own stories using the elements of the literature they have read and appropriate vocabulary
* observe the conventions of grammar and usage, spelling, and punctuation

Exemplars

Students will:

-incorporate literary elements and special devices in their original stories
-decode and read aloud their own or others' stories on screen or from hard copy
-use age-appropriate vocabulary and practice writing and reading in standard English

Comments

This super program allows students to read a saved story OR write and print an original tale with a huge selection of pictures, backgrounds and sounds that they have chosen to add. In addition, for those who have difficulty beginning writing, there are dozens of story starters (some in Spanish) like "Planet C for Chaos" and "The Harp" and "That's My Face!"

Software_title: SuccessMaker - Math Concepts & Skills
District: St. Regis Falls Central
Date_of_entry: 04/11/00
School_representative: Nelson Chasney
Author: Patrick Richards
Email: nchasney@eudoramail.com
Publisher: Computer Curriculum Corporation
Cost: $499
Format: MAC
Media_type: networkable
Grade_level: 0-8.5
Multimedia: graphics
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Problem Solving, Remediation
Instructional_setting: individual
Management_system: record keeping, modify instruction, report generation
Question_1: 0
Question_2: 3
Question_3: 2
Question_4: 3
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 3
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 3
Question_9: 0
Question_10: 3

Learning_Standard_Referenced

MST

Standard 1 - Math Analysis, Inquiry, and Design

Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.

Scientific Inquiry

3) The observations made while testing proposed explanations, when analyzed using conventional and invented methods, provide new insights into phenomena.

Standard 2 - Information Systems

Students will access, generate, process and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

Information Systems

3) Information technology can have positive and negative impacts on society, depending upon how it is used.

Performance_Indicators

Identify, Understand, Classify and Understand third grade concepts Sequence, addend, sum, difference, product, factor, measurement, graphs

Exemplars

(2.5 level) 13 strands of math areas, 23% measurement, 20% addition Well organized listing of objects by strand.

Comments

Software supports objectives covered in class. Useful for helping students who are having difficulties.

Software_title: Systeme-D
District: Chazy Central Rural School
Date_of_entry: 5/4/2000
School_representative: Diane S. Coupal
Author: Diane S. Coupal/Sharon Roraback
Email: dcoupal@mum.neric.org
Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Publishers
Cost: $800-site license
Format: MAC
Media_type: disk
Grade_level: 8-11
Multimedia:
NYS_Learning_Standards: LOTE
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Productivity Tool, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group
Management_system: n/a
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 3
Question_4: 2
Question_5: 4
Question_6: 2
Question_7: 3
Question_8: 4
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

LOTE Standard 1: Communication Skills

Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication.

Modern Languages

Performance_Indicators

* compose short, informal notes and messages to exchange information with members of the target culture.

* write brief analyses of more complex content when given the opportunity for organization and advance preparation, though errors may occur more frequently

* write multiparagraphed essays, journals, personal and business letters, and creative texts in which their thoughts are unified and presented in an organized fashion; errors in form may occur, particularly when the students are writing about complex themes or issues requiring the expression of opinions, or when the topic is outside their realm of experiences.

Exemplars

Students will write compositions responding to questions in the text. Students will write essays addressing selected topics such as “What I enjoy the most and why.”

Comments

Systeme-D is a word processing program for students of French. It has references to grammar points and conjugations, providing assistance to students as they write, as well as an 8000 word bilingual French-English dictionary.

Software_title: The Civil War - American Heritage
District: Voorheesville
Date_of_entry: 4/11/00
School_representative: Frank Faber
Author: Tom Kurkjian
Email: ffaber@gw.neric.org
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Cost:
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: CD
Grade_level: 7 - 12
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation
NYS_Learning_Standards: SS
Software_type: Problem Solving, Simulation, Reference, Tutorial, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: modify instruction, report generation
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 3
Question_6: 4
Question_7: 4
Question_8: 3
Question_9: 4
Question_10: 4

Learning_Standard_Referenced

Social Studies

Standard 1 - History of the United States and New York

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.

1. Interpret ideas, values...important historical documents

2. Investigate key turning points in US History

3. Gather and organize information...contributions of individuals and groups

4. Describe historic events through eyes and experiences of those who were there

Social Studies Standard 3 - #1 Geography

Social Studies Standard 4 - #2 Economics

Social Studies Standard 5 - #1 & #2 Government

Performance_Indicators

1. Development of American Culture

2. Connections and interaction of people and events from a variety of perspectives

3. Major developments in NYS and US History with respect to individuals and groups

4. Significance of historical evidence

Exemplars

1. Students will be asked to do a worksheet, one that gives them a chance to work within and show many of the CD's features.

2. Students must use the CD as a source for a research paper.

Comments

Software_title: The Five Kingdoms of Life
District: Voorheesville
Date_of_entry: 4/11/00
School_representative: Frank Faber
Author: Estelle Sullivan
Email: ffaber@gw.neric.org
Publisher: Clearvue/eav, Inc.
Cost: $79.95
Format: PC & MAC
Media_type: disk
Grade_level: 7 - 12 +
Multimedia: audio, graphics, animation, full-motion video
NYS_Learning_Standards: MST
Software_type: Drill & Practice, Simulation, Reference, Productivity Tool, Tutorial, Remediation, Enrichment
Instructional_setting: whole group, small group, individual
Management_system: record keeping
Question_1: 4
Question_2: 4
Question_3: 4
Question_4: 4
Question_5: 4
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