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Hiragana Writing Challenge for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Hiragana Writing Challenge for iPhone aims to help students of Japanese with their knowledge of Hiragana. The beautiful stroke order animations will help students appreciate the artistry of Japanese writing. The application allows for on screen touch writing followed by re-inforcement of learning through individual stroke order animation.

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Student, Animation, Lemon Sanver, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Master Grade 3.7.2 (Mac)

Master Grade is a gradebook application for teachers. Its highly intuitive and efficient design allows an unlimited number of classes, students, comments, and reports to be accesses from a single file. Master Grade allows for effortless data exchange with office administration systems, flexible calculation weighting, support for numeric and free...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Student, Class

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Students find Win 7 upgrade a tough assignment

Microsoft admits problems that students are having when they try to download a discounted upgrade version of Windows 7. Microsoft's discount Windows 7 upgrade for students has proven to be a tough assignment for some of those who signed up for the offer. The software maker...

Tags: Student, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft, Windows 7, students, Ina Fried

News items 2009-10-26

Universities in hot water over students' peer-to-peer sharing

Students sharing copyrighted files through university networks are landing their institutions in hot water. But with new legislation about to come into force, where do we stand now? by Zack Whittaker

Tags: P2P, Student, Water, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-10-25

Ivy League students: Kindle DX a 'poor excuse of an academic tool'

One of the original colleges and universities selected for Amazon's educational pilot program for the Kindle DX e-book reader is Princeton University, and now that the school's students have had some time with the device, well, they hate it. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Student, Tool, Productivity, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-28

University registration dogged by poor communication and ancient IT

A mixture of university registration failings for returning students and a bureaucratic student loans system which is outdated and lacking in communications, why are so many students broke at the start of their returning academic year? Article by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Information Technology, Student, Strategy, Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-09-28

QuizMaker Pro 2009 r3.0 (Windows)

QuizMaker Pro 2009 is a full-featured application which generates, administers, archives, and scores multiple choice, matching, and short answer tests. Create, edit and archive tests. Have the computer administer the tests to students, notify students of their scores, allow them to review missed questions. Link tests of together to be...

Tags: Student, Score, QuizMaker Pro 2009, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Management, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-25

Grade Book 1.0.2 (Mobile)

Grade Book application helps teachers to keep track of the grades, marks and credits of their different classes in school and university. It always shows the up to date average mark or the sum of the credits for each student and the number of marks. It features you can set...

Tags: Mobile, Student, Class, Piet Jonas, E-mail, Backups, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-24

XGrader 2.5.2 (Mac)

XGrader is a gradebook application that automatically calculates final grades and helps you monitor each student's performance and attendance throughout the course. Features include: Choose your grading style Specify which letter grade levels to use Specify types, values, and display colors of assignments Set threshold warning level...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Student, Toads End Software, XGrader, Workforce Management, Scripting Languages, Human Resources, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-09-23

Office Web Apps: what's in it for students?

A look over the Office Web Apps and what to expect from a student's point of view by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Web Application, Student, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Office 2010, Windows Live, Cloud computing, E-learning, Office Web Apps, Microsoft, Silverlight, Zack Whittaker

Image galleries 2009-09-22

MathSmart First Grade 1.0.1 (Mobile)

MathSmart is designed to help all kids learn first grade math. MathSmart applies the organic teaching method that nurtures the hidden talent and innate intelligence of every kid. MathSmart breaks down first grade math in 60 built-in difficulty levels and finds the difficulty level that suites the individual student. To...

Tags: Mobile, Student, Indriam, MathSmart, Workforce Management, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-14

Quiz Extreme 3.0 (Windows)

Quiz Extreme is a complete quiz management system that is great for businesses, teachers, parents, and schools, Quiz Extreme is affordable for any budget.. Our quiz software has an easy to use user interface which makes creating quizzes a snap. Make your own quizzes and tests for computer based testing...

Tags: Audio, Student, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Excellentia Software, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-09-09

eTextbooks 1.0 (Mobile)

College students at nearly 6,000 campuses in the U.S. and Canada use eTextbooks from CourseSmart to help achieve their education goals. Students can access their eTextbooks and notes using any computer connected to the Internet and now their iPhone or iPod touch. The eTextbooks for the iPhone app is a...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Student, Apple iPod Touch, Textbook, CourseSmart, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-08

Math Stars Plus 2010 2010r1 (Windows)

The basic module of Math Stars Plus challenges students to complete all fact groups up to a selectable number. As each function (+ - x /) is successfully completed, the student earns a STAR. When 4 stars have been earned, the student's name is entered into the Hall of Fame....

Tags: Student, Microsoft Windows, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-02

Logger Pro 3.8 (Mac)

Logger Pro software provides an inexpensive, user-friendly way for students to collect and analyze data with computers. This program works in combination with Vernier Software's Universal Lab Interface or Serial Box Interface. With either interface, students can easily measure physical quantities such as temperature, pH, pressure, light, dissolved oxygen, relative...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Student, Vernier Software & Technology, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-01

Snow Leopard: Why students shouldn't care less

Apple's new "operating system" (if you can call it that; it's basically a service pack) may be of a suited student price of $29, but students shouldn't care less about it. Here's why. Article by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Student, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Instant Interactive Drills 5.3 (Mac)

Drills provides an interactive and graphically rich environment for up to 50 students to learn their basic mathematic facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). Each student has their own settings, scores and test history. Virtually unlimited customizations available. Students can explore solutions to problems using number lines and other 'assistants'....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Student, Instant Interactive, Drills, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components

Software downloads 2009-08-27

Math Stars Plus 2010 (Mac)

The basic module of Math Stars Plus challenges students to complete all fact groups up to a selectable number. As each function (+ - x /) is successfully completed, the student earns a STAR. When 4 stars have been earned, the student's name is entered into the Hall of Fame....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Student, Games, Productivity, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-25

Generation Y: 'Email is unfashionable and outdated'

Steve Clayton, Microsoft extraordinaire and geek in disguise, posted an interesting set of statistics over the weekend, via Socialnomics, on the social media revolution  - the movement where media and information spreads far and wide through social techniques; Twitter and Facebook being the two best examples. Students,...

Tags: Facebook, Generation Y, Student, YouTube Inc., E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-24

Microbiology Pronunciations Lite 1.0 (Mobile)

Microbiology Pronunciations Lite is an application that will play back audio of the correct pronunciations of virtually all of the medically important fungi. This application helps undergraduates, physicians, medical students, nursing students, physician assistants, pre-med students, and foreign health professionals.

Tags: Physician, Mobile, Student, Hipposoft, Microbiology Pronunciations Lite

Software downloads 2009-08-19