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Title: Software to Make Educators More Effective
Tags: Educational Training Software playit2
Blog Entry: There are a lot of things that make life more challenging for educators in this high tech age than ever before. It has always been challenging for educators to hold the student's attention while possibly the class move in different directions. Now with all of the technology influences it has become even more of a trick. Today's teacher has to be a world class entertainer to compete with the IPODs, TV, DVD, and other surrounding entertaining activites that inundat our children of the twenty-first century. Innovation has always been a key element in the tool kit of the most successful and admired teachers. Now with higgh tech entertainment all around us they have to be author, actor, comedian, magician, athlete, and much more to merely hold their own. The best teachers have always brought innovative ideas to their classroom to set themselves apart from the others and todays conditions require an even higher degree of innovation for ultimate success. Educators are using more and more educational software to help bridge the gap, but software off the shelf lacks that personal touch that sets the master educators apart from the pack. Some have resorted to commissioning developement of software to their personal specifications in order to stay ahead. Some have ven ventured into the arena of writing their own programs. That approach is very challenging since it also requires that the teacher must learn programming skills that really can interfere with the creativity of the course work that they would like to design. A new product has recently been designed that could very easily bridge the gap for the innovative educator by making it possible to program without knowing programming skills! PlayIt 2.0 developed by former NASA engineer Joe Clayton makes it possible for anyone to produce self-executing programs. He has tried the technique with his young children and they have developed interesting and functional software on thier own. Now with this tool a teacher can concentrate on the goals and objectives of the course of study while producing something that today's high tech oriented student can truly embrace. This software can easily produce programs that incooperate databases, spreadsheets, encapsulated presentations, video, audio and graphics while still allowing the flexibility for the student to move beyond the confines of the"textbook" and exploree on their own with the creating teacher's guidance. and all of this can be put into a CD Disc that the student can operate frm their own laptop computer (which many schools even in high poverty areas are now providing at low or no cost to students). Whats more the software that produces these great educational programs is a stand alone item that does not require a whole shelf full of supporting software to operate at its peak. An educator using this tool to produce course work can easily go back to the original program and improve and update as time changes the course requirements. They do not have to start from scratch everytime something changes for example in a technology that they are teaching. There are many samples of the variety of concepts available at the web site http://dotcomwizards.com. You should take a look and tell your favorite teacher that help is on the way for under $100.00. Jim Davies - The Web Professor http://wacky-rabbit.com