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SMART Ideas Concept-Mapping Software
Teach your students to become creative, independent thinkers. SMART Ideas concept-mapping software not only helps your students connect ideas, organize concepts and plan projects - it motivates them to learn.
Create Maps
Record ideas and show relationships. You can select symbols of various colors and shapes, and easily connect and resize them.
Add Levels
Expand your diagram and keep it organized. You can add multiple levels, move between levels and preview the contents.
Link to More Information
Attach links to Web sites, documents, presentations, applications and video clips.
Switch to Outline
Plan reports by seeing an outline of your concept map. You can rearrange ideas in either diagram or outline view.
Publish Web Pages
Convert your diagram to HTML. Levels automatically become hyperlinked, so you can navigate your map just like you browse Web sites.
Insert Clip Art
Make your maps even more visual with the clip-art gallery of 2,000 images. Or drag-and-drop your own clip art and images into your diagram.
Use Templates
Save time by starting with templates for various subjects and projects. Or create your own templates for students to use.
Integrate with a SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard
Write directly in the application and convert your handwriting to text symbols and connectors.
Brainstorm with Ease
Quickly enter typed text as symbols, which you can later rearrange and connect.
Play Back Your Work
Review material by watching a playback of diagram creation.
Price ranges from $59 to $21 for North American educational institutions based on volume of licenses purchased.
Price ranges from $199 to $70 for all other purchasers based on volume of licenses purchases.
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SynchronEyes Computer Lab Instruction Software
Create a focused learning environment with SynchronEyes computer-lab instruction software. Running on your existing TCP/IP network, it features an intuitive interface that helps you provide one-to-one instruction in a computer lab.
View all student screens. Change the size, arrangement and grouping of thumbnail images. Respond to student questions. When a student sends a question, a hand-up icon appears on that thumbnail image. Respond to the student or to several students at once.
Group students. View thumbnails of and communicate with individual groups.
Assist students from your desktop. Click on a thumbnail image for a full-screen view of the student's desktop. Then take control of the computer to guide the student through a problem.
Broadcast your screen or any student's screen to the entire class or particular groups.
Lock student computers. Blank screens and disable the mice and keyboards of the entire class, individual students or specific groups. A customizable lock-out message appears on each screen.
Chat with students or groups, or open a chat session for specific students.
Poll students. Send students a yes/no question and their votes appear as thumbs-up or -down icons on the thumbnails. The software automatically tallies the results.
Quiz students. Create a quiz, send it to the class and save it for future use. When students submit their answers, the software marks them for you.
Annotate over applications. Highlight material by either using the floating tools included in SynchronEyes software or annotating on your SMART Board interactive whiteboard. MUST download both the student AND teacher programs.
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