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Machine: Win, Mac comprehensive
Publisher: Compass Learning Systems
Purchase options: contact publisher
Level: Literacy, beginning For: K-4
Special use: elementary, literacy
Comprehensive system that runs from a local server or over the Internet from the Compass Learning server. Includes extensive record-keeping and curriculum aligned with US government-required standardized testing (NCLB). The program includes a pre-reading progam and covers English structure and function, with opportunities for writing. Help is available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Korean, Japanese, and Portuguese.
Machine: Win, Mac comprehensive
Publisher: Compass Learning Systems
Purchase options: contact publisher
Level: Beginning, intermediate, advanced For: All but K-6
Comprehensive system that runs from a local server or over the Internet from the Compass Learning server. Activities work on reading and language arts comprehension and fluency to prepare students for standardized testing as well as pronunciation. Help is available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Korean, Japanese, and Portuguese.
Machine: Win discussion, reading
Publisher: Lingonet Oy
Approximate single-unit price: $90
Purchase options: 5-user, network
Level: Intermediate, advanced For: All but K-8
Three separately CD-ROMs, each with different topics. Opinion Zone titles deal with the language of expressing opinions, built around a studio debate. The topics of these debates include Gun Law (Opinion Zone 1), European Union (Opinion Zone 2), and No More Roads (Opinions Zone 3). In addition to the studio material, Opinion Zone titles include a variety of interviews with people ranging from an Australian government minister to a street vendor. Opinion Zone titles are not intended to be self-contained courses; rather, they are classroom resources that teachers can call on to support an existing study programme. CD-ROM. See the website (http://www.lingonet.com) for demos and downloads.
Machine: Mac/Win discussion
Publisher: Learning Company, The
See also online/mail order
Approximate single-unit price: $50
Purchase options: lab pack, site license
Level: Intermediate, advanced For: All but K-6
Students make decisions following a simulated trip along the Oregon Trail. They can choose the month and year to start, with different hazards accordingly. The program has excellent graphics and a lot of information is presented on screen in the course of the simulation. Includes digitized speech. This lends itself to use in cooperative learning plans where each student in a team has responsibility for monitoring different information. There are a lot of resources about this period such as pioneer journals that can be used effectively in conjunction with this program. Having the students keep a journal of their simulated trip also works well as an extension activity. Now sold only through mail order vendors. Windows 98/XP; Mac OS 9. Not verified on Vista or Mac OS X.
Machine: Win reference
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press UK
See also Wida, Athelstan
Approximate single-unit price: $45
Purchase options: £38; site
Level: Intermediate, advanced For: All
This dictionary with CD-ROM includes not only the usual word lookups, but also three levels of word games and puzzles. Learners can cut and paste from the dictionary into a word-processor and can print out words and definitions encountered in the games. British English version. The package also includes the Oxford Wordfinder Dictionary and the Oxford Genie.
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Last updated 05/15/2009 by Deborah Healey.