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Topia!: Computers: Systems: RISC OS: Software: Education (56)
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Turtle - Turtle graphics version of LOGO. Whilst it can be used with ease by a seven year old, it has the complexity to satisfy the needs of the most advanced student. From Porters Primary Software. Xavier Educational Software - Designed for bettering reading skills, and helping dyslexic students. Primary Software CD - All of Kudlian Software's Acorn titles on one CD. Free site licence. Really Good Software Company - Information about the Triple-R educational programs, and Picture Book 2, designed to introduce youngsters to maths, words and money. Commercial products. Panorama - [Commercial] - Draws projections of world maps. By David Pilling. Orrery - A review, support, updates and resources for the solar system simulator. Includes details of the nine planets. Acorn Education Software - Various educational software, including chemistry, and maths. 3D-Stereo - Stereoscopic viewer enabling complex 3-dimensional solids to be manipulated in real time. Helps the visualisation and understanding of shapes. Primary Collection - 22 tried and tested programs. Designed mainly to develop basic reading and mathematical skills. From Porters Primary Software. Sensible Software Services - Specialists in producing educational programs for RISC OS computers. HolyBible - Multi-windowed, multi-version Bible study application. From ExpLAN Computers. Copernicus - [Freeware] Astronomical almanac. Chart the stars, and planets. Chemistry Software - Various titles on the Acorn Education website. Orion - Imitating a "planisphere", this is a very popular aid to viewing the sky at night. SESType - Sophisticated touch typing course program. Seek - Search utility for looking up Bible references. ArcSimp - Program designed to help the user make models of dynamic or moving objects in the real world. It also simulates digital gates and systems, and can do this at the same time as it is simulating analogue systems. Report Generator - Allows comprehensive school reports to be produced. Talking Calculator - Uses sampled sound to teach basic numbers and number skills. The Spoken Word - Uses sampled speech to stimulate an interest in reading. Designed for children who are just beginning to read. Produces bright pictures by clicking on the written names of the objects to be coloured in. Fitness - Ideal addition to the resources of any PE department as it allows staff to keep a record of fitness levels based on ten standard tests: nine using the gym and one track-based. Photodesk: Orrery - Powerful solar system simulator, with heliocentric and geocentric viewpoints. LogosWord - Enables users to build their own, personalised library of Bible translations, Commentaries, Dictionaries, and more, in an environment conducive to serious Bible study or casual browsing. Sky Guide - Astronomy program that draws star maps showing the constellations and positions of the Sun, Moon and Planets. Lunar and solar eclipses can be predicted as well as interesting planetary alignments. Weather - Combined with sensors from Eiffel Systems, this will turn your computer into an automatic weather station. Maths Software - Various maths titles on the Acorn Education website. Language Software - Various titles on the Acorn Education website. SENstore - SEN record keeping and report writing. Nstore - National Curriculum record keeping and report writing. Fun & Games Bumper Bundle - Reading, Spelling and Maths games. Matrix - A cross-curricular, content-free framework program to help develop the matching and sorting of various attributes of objects and concepts. My School Day - A program that helps to develop cause and effect learning. Touché - Starting point for cause-and-effect work and for starting nursery aged children using a mouse or touch screen. Flashcard - Early learning program for first word recognition and matching. Numbers and other characters can also be used instead of letters. Morse - Tools for learning and decoding Morse Code. Administration Software - [freeware] Suite that handles most administrative needs in a secondary school, except finance. By Chris Wragg. ProgCalc - As well as being a full function scientific calculator, ProgCalc may be programmed with a set of complex operations, which may then be carried out. Touch Type - Iota Software's sophisticated touch-typing tutor. Clic Software - Colourful software for the curriculum. My World and Textease screens, with strong curricular links. Elements - Periodic table of the elements, packed with data and able to interactively produce useful graphical output. It also speaks! Nuclides - Graphical database containing information on 3000+ known stable or radioactive isotopes of all known elements up to element 118, displayed on a Segre chart. Cognitive Rehabilitation Software - Suite of programs developed as part of pioneering work on cognitive rehabilitation of the head injured. It has also been used successfully with stroke patients, geriatrics, children with and without learning disability and Alzheimer's sufferers. LRTC: Turtle - LOGO graphics program, based on the original Master 128 version. ROCchart - Star chart generator designed to complement his Robotic Observatory Controller program, ROC. ShapeSort - You pick a shape, then the computer asks you questions such as Does it have four sides? and then works out what shape you picked. Collision - An introduction to LOGO - guide the arrow to the target at the top of the screen without hitting any of the shapes. Aspex Educational Software - Wide range of graphics software for schools. BlastOff - Help pupils to learn multiplication tables. Clozeword - Pupils learn to use the main cuing systems in reading to understand prepared passages. Full Marks - Pupils learn to use sentence punctuation in prepared passages. Fuzzword - Help pupils to recall and memorise words by learning to sequence letters. Password - Pupils learn to spell using the "look cover write check" approach on screen, and can test themselves and keep a record of their progress. EarthMap - Electronic globe with many viewing facilities. James Bursa - EarthData [Commercial] - A geographical database contain a huge amount of data, tools and maps about the various countries of Earth, Learn [Freeware] - Allows you to create your own files of questions and language vocabulary files to randomly test you on them. Latin and French verb files are available. ClassDesks - Provides a fully protected desktop, ideal for classroom use.
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