Adobe Flash

Tired of stale PowerPoint presentations, give your students access to Adobe Flash Animation. Students can create video presentations for Science showing how different objects fall or an audio dubbed cartoon animation demonstrating the use of the Spanish past tense.

Are your 8th Graders Programming?

Bill Gates started programming in the 8th grade. Being introduced to computers at this age helped him become one of these founding Microsoft members.

Easily Create Data Rich Web Pages

Programming as easy as copying and pasting will let students create interactive web sites displaying student data. The Simile Project from MIT developed Exhibit, an open source program taking student expression of data to the next level. The above example is an interactive map of Presidential birthplaces. Check out Simile's web site for more examples.

http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/