DER+-+Laptops+for+Learning


 * Digital Education Revolution - Laptops for Learning **

This section will deal with the software that these new notebooks the students are given to use. I will endeavour to explain the use of each software package on the notebook as well as include any links to sites that can help you best understand the best way of utilising and using each software package.

 Some of the software can be explained using YouTube videos, others by website links, and yet others in the Tutorials section that are interactive.

DER Resources & Laptop Wraps This section houses all the PDF files for the Digital Education Revolution as well as the Laptop Wraps. They are an excellent read and give a lot of information for lesson content, not much easier either, each interest area has a unique number for the **TALE**  site as well, so searching for the content you want is at your fingertips.



 It will support a full range of software applications and features high level computing power, storage and memory. The IdeaPad S10e is teenage-friendly, being robust, compact and lightweight. It will easily fit into a school bag.  These are the applications that will be on the first Laptops for Learning teacher (T1) and student (S1) rollouts. See the Tools+ area of TaLe for more information about the software.
 * Features of the Laptop ** The Lenovo IdeaPad S10e has been selected as the laptop personal computer to be provided to senior secondary students and teachers in NSW government secondary schools. Lenovo created the IdeaPad S10e specifically for the education sector.

**Operating System** **Interactive Whiteboard Applications** **Science Applications** **Multimedia**
 * Windows 7
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;">Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 - Productivity Suite **
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Word
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Excel
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Access
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">OneNote
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Powerpoint
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Publisher
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Multilanguage add-in
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Word
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Microsoft Math add-in
 * <span style="color: #141415; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Adobe Creativity Suite 4 **
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Acrobat 9 Professional Extended
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Contribute CS4
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dreamweaver CS4
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Fireworks CS4
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Flash Professional CS4
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Captivate 4
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Photoshop Elements 7
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Premier Elements 7
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;">Audio Editing **
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Audacity 1.2
 * Browser**
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Plug-ins: Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave, Java, Microsoft Silverlight, Apple QuickTime.
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Smart Notebook 10
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Smart Recorder
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Smart Video Player
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ActivStudio Viewer
 * <span style="color: #090a0c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Encyclopaedia & Dictionary **
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2009
 * <span style="color: #0c0c0e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Maths Applications **
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Microsoft Maths
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">GeoGebra
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">WinKMT Chess
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Periodic Table
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Periodic Table Quiz
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Earths Core
 * <span style="color: #090a0b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Musical Applications **
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">LenMus Phonascus
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">MuseScore
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Notation Player
 * <span style="color: #131416; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Art and Design Applications **
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Google SketchUp 7
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ArtRage 2 Starter Edition
 * <span style="color: #020203; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Other Learning Tools **
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mind Mapping: Freemind
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Group polling and response: Student Response Network
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Flowchart diagrams: Dia
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">QR code reader: QuickMark Barcode
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Apple iTunes
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Windows Media Player
 * <span style="color: #17181c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">CCCP Codec pack

<span style="color: #191fa9; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In an effort to further enhance the abilities for teachers to find resources for digital education, this moderated chat site that has the abilty to do more than just chat is now available to all teachers. You join and the site will send an email to me to verify you so you can enter, reason is to keep unwanted people out to make it more relevant.
 * <span style="color: #1110bc; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Online Digital Education Chat Room: **

<span style="color: #0c27ca; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ahh, but the DET has blocked it by the way, surprise, surprise....but for home use it is better for some that Twitter etc.

<span style="color: #101198; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format. It gives you three (3) options when you click on a file that you want to compress..**.[|7-Zip]**, [|**TAR**]and **[|Zip]**. 7-Zip is the native zip (compress) that this program does, TAR is used in Unix Operating Systems and it combines all file together into one, it doesn't compress them like others are, used if you want the ability to open it in a Linux format. The Zip function is just like any native compression utility, it zips the files (compresses them) in a useful format that is able to be opened by any other zip program.
 * <span style="color: #1110bc; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">First program is 7-Zip: **

**<span style="color: #e40c14; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Adobe Programs: ** <span style="color: #132caa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 109%;">Each of these programs in the Adobe Suite will be explained either on this page, or in all probability be in the Tutorials section as well as the explanation.

<span style="color: #0003ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Professional: <span style="color: #132caa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 109%;">Ok, so this is more like a sales pitch, it is also a good explanation as to what Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Professional can do, it's rather extraordinary.

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<span style="color: #132caa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Adobe Contribute CS4**: <span style="color: #201499; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">is a Web content management application that is designed to facilitate collaborative editing of Web sites. It provides version control and work-flow management features. Adobe claims that the software allows users to edit Web pages without knowing HTML, and that the application can easily embed multimedia components.

<span style="color: #201499; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> The Contribute editor is designed to integrate with Adobe's Dreamweaver software, and other Adobe products. Contribute also includes an in-browser editing component that works as a plug-in for recent versions of Microsoft [|Internet Explorer] and Mozilla [|Firefox].

<span style="color: #132caa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** Adobe Dreamweaver - ** <span style="color: #090fae; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 117%;">For building Websites in WYSIWYG or What You See Is What You Get, which means it looks as it will do when viewed on the internet.

<span style="color: #090fae; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 117%;"> Here is a site from YouTube that has many video tutorials on how to use **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Adobe Dreamweaver **

<span style="color: #132caa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** <span class="wiki_link">Adobe Fireworks - ** <span style="color: #090fae; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 117%;">This site explains how to make a slide show easily in Fireworks: **<span style="color: #1606b1; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Fireworks Autoplay Slideshow **

=Fireworks CS4 Common Libraries Tutorial and Simple Graphics Creation:= <span style="color: #090fae; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 117%;">This tutorial helps in utilising those common libraries in Fireworks. <span style="color: #090fae; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 117%;"> media type="youtube" key="XVjLr6XhGag" height="344" width="425"


 * <span style="color: #090fae; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 117%;">I could put a lot more in explanation on Fireworks here, but now teachers can access YouTube it is not worth the space on this Wiki. You just go to www.youtube.com and type in Adobe Fireworks CS4 tutorial and there are hundreds to choose from, choose one and see what you can learn by watching the videos. **

<span style="color: #132caa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** <span class="wiki_link">Adobe Flash - ** <span style="color: #132caa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span class="wiki_link"> media type="custom" key="4941205"

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**<span style="color: #1110bc; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Microsoft One Note: ** <span style="color: #132caa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 109%;">One Note is going to be one of the most used tools on the students notebooks, imagine digital portfolios, no more hard to read handwriting, what a bonus.

<span style="color: #132caa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 109%;"> Here is a link to Microsoft's own site that may help those who are techno savvy: **One Note**

<span style="color: #132caa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 109%;">This following link is a video tutorial leading you through how to use **One Note**:

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This link will lead to TaLe Teaching and Learning Exchange and will help expedite the search process for subject matter.