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AVP-W98-462001    This is IT!

resource for IT Co-ordinators and will This be particularly useful for those using the textbook This is IT!. The disk offers databases, worksheets, advice and information for IT Co-ordinators most of which can be customised as appropriate by the teacher and downloaded onto floppy disks for students’ use. All worksheets, spreadsheets and databases are provided in a range of formats (including ASCII and CSV files). The CD-ROM contains suggestions on, for example, developing an IT policy in your school and extends the applications described in This is IT! CD-ROM is an invaluable

Key Stage : 3-4 Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £58.75 Student Book £17.61

AVP-W98-PC5046    Using the World Wide Web

Up to six hours of tutorial on all aspects of using the World Wide Web.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £29.94

AVP-W98-309061    SuperLogo

A superb language for creating Windows applets (small applications), based on the poplar Logo language. SuperLogo has been designed to help you every step of the way with choosers which offer you all of the options for whichever command you wish to use. SuperLogo is the main programming environment which gives you access to a rich set of commands with which to construct your program, including multimedia and animation. Use Megapaint to design and edit the graphical resources and animations which your programs will use. Superdisk converts your SuperLogo program into a stand-alone Windows application. (Site licences in addition to single user licences.)

Age Range : 8-13 Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £57.58 5 User Site Licence - CD-ROM £68.15 10 User Site Licence - CD-ROM £118.68 20 User Site Licence - CD-ROM £196.23       

AVP-W98-PC5001    Learning Excel 5.0 for Windows

Up to six hours of tutorial covering: Programme icons. The Excel screen. Opening a workbook. Filling text. Editing, copying, formatting and moving a cell. The Undo command. Explaining cell clearing. Creating formulae. Showing AutoSum. Column and row widths. Using Function Wizard. Finding averages. Creating a workbook. Using AutoFill. Renaming sheet tabs. Formatting information in cells. Creating charts. Using the Chart Wizard. Explaining the floating toolbar. Manipulating the chart. Adding trendlines. Error bars. Inserting worksheets. Changing orders of workbooks. Hiding. Unhiding. Explaining Printer Setup. Demonstrating Text notes. Using file find, and much more.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £29.94       

AVP-W98-PC5023    Learning Excel 95 - Introduction

Up to six hours of tutorial covering: Excel’s workbooks. Discussing sheet tabs. Moving around the worksheet. Selecting cells. Using the Tip Wizard. Using Help. Entering numbers into cells. Using built-in number formats. Using the Toolbar buttons. Changing the column width. Changing row height. Changing cell alignment. Clearing, deleting data. Using the Undo command. Creating a new workbook. Entering data in a range. Editing a cell. Saving a worksheet. Creating backups. Entering text into a spreadsheet. Entering formulae into a spreadsheet. Using AutoFill. Entering formulae. Using the Sum Function. AutoSum. Copying, moving data. Changing the font, point size. Using the Format Painter button. Spell checking a worksheet. Printing the worksheet. The Print Dialogue box. Print Preview. Discussing Page Setup - and much more.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £29.94      

AVP-W98-PC5003    Getting Started with Access 2.0

Up to six hours of tutorial covering: Viewing databases. Discussing sample databases. The Access Window. Command Centre. Changing the toolbar. Displaying Cue Cards. Creating databases. Explaining navigation controls. Opening a query. Defining macros. Using Table Wizards. Attaching tables to databases. Importing information. Explaining primary keys. Creating primary keys. Using Query Wizards. Creating queries. Defining criteria. Joining tables. Making AutoFormats. Using Form Wizards. Adding Fields in forms. Moving fields in forms. Adding records to forms. Creating an AutoReport. Using Report Wizards. Explaining printing, and much more.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £29.94

AVP-W98-135007    Microsoft Publisher 97

Produce professional quality output with a few easy steps. No design experience necessary. All the hard work has been done for you, thanks to the layouts and clip art provided. Design your own stationery, newsletters and menus, with great graphics and eye-catching headlines.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £117.49

AVP-W98-ELD08    Pressworks 2

The complete Windows Desktop Publishing package for Page Layout, Word Processing, Graphics, Typography, and Colour. Pressworks is the DTP package to have if you’re serious about how your documents should look. Crammed with the features you need to produce full-colour reports, memos, presentations, advertisements, brochures, catalogues - just about any printed page where good presentation is important. You’ll find Pressworks has plenty of power but is still remarkably easy to learn and use. With a range of drawing tools, customisable page sizes, an automatic back-up facility, headers and footers, capitalisation control, an undo editing command, an alignment tool and far more, you’ll probably never hit the limits of Pressworks. Includes a Spell Checker and Thesaurus, colour support (24 bit - Kodak Photo CD), OLE2 support, 65 TT fonts, 300 ready made clip art images and can be run on a network. The ideal companion for Pressworks is Designworks (ELD05) - a powerful graphics program.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £46.94 1-24 users each £28.20 25-50 users each £23.50       

AVP-W98-PC5002    Learning Word 6.0 for Windows - Introduction

Up to six hours of tutorial covering: Word program group. Word’s environment. Using pull-down menus. Demonstrating control boxes. Using shortcut keys. Explaining toolbars. Ruler bar. Adding page numbers. Entering and deleting text. Saving documents. Opening documents. Scrolling through documents. Using Overstrike. Selecting a document view. Selecting text. Using the mouse, keyboard to select text. Manipulating text. Deleting text. Using Cut and copy. Using Paste. Changing font sizes. Altering spacing, position. Discussing tabs and indents. Using Find and Replace. Working with margins. Working with line spacing. Using the spell checker. Demonstrating AutoCorrect. Formatting pages. Numbering pages. Centring pages. Printing documents. Using Help. Introducing templates. Using Wizards, and much more.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £29.94       

AVP-W98-PC5002    Learning Word 6.0 for Windows - Introduction

Up to six hours of tutorial covering: Word program group. Word’s environment. Using pull-down menus. Demonstrating control boxes. Using shortcut keys. Explaining toolbars. Ruler bar. Adding page numbers. Entering and deleting text. Saving documents. Opening documents. Scrolling through documents. Using Overstrike. Selecting a document view. Selecting text. Using the mouse, keyboard to select text. Manipulating text. Deleting text. Using Cut and copy. Using Paste. Changing font sizes. Altering spacing, position. Discussing tabs and indents. Using Find and Replace. Working with margins. Working with line spacing. Using the spell checker. Demonstrating AutoCorrect. Formatting pages. Numbering pages. Centring pages. Printing documents. Using Help. Introducing templates. Using Wizards, and much more.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £29.94       

AVP-W98-218001    TX-Multimedia

TX-Multimedia is an interactive course which illustrates and explains the building blocks of multimedia. It is an ideal way to discover what this new communication medium is about, how it works and its uses. The material is divided into three sections: Definitions - This introduces the basic components of multimedia and the related software used in multimedia. Applications - Multimedia communication is rapidly finding its way into our lives in many ways. This section looks at how multimedia is used in teaching, training, marketing and general information services. Technology - this section contains a detailed study of sound, video and image capture technology - showing how these new devices work and with examples of the capabilities.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £47

AVP-W98-491001    That's What I Call Help

The last word in utility software. Includes some of the world’s most popular utilities in a suite of programs in a two CD pack which comes complete with end user support. Full documentation is on the CD, including 600 Mb of How-To videos, as well as comprehensive on-line help in all the applications. The programs included are: First Aid 97, Norton AntiVirus, PowerDesk, QuickView Plus, WinDelete 95, ZipFolders and PC Handyman.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £49.98       

AVP-W98-135037    Microsoft 3D Movie Maker

Developed for Windows 95. Created for 8-14 year olds this creative software represents the next generation in animation tools. 3D Movie Maker enables children to both produce and direct their own cartoon films. It provides limitless creativity, amazing full motion, crazy sounds and music. Everything for the budding film director!

Age Range : 8-14 Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £39.99       

AVP-W98-PC5025    Getting Started with PowerPoint 95

Up to six hours of tutorial covering: Starting PowerPoint. The PowerPoint window. The menu bar. Using the Toolbar. The Power bar. The AutoContent Wizard. Using the Outline View. Entering text. Using the Undo command. Collapsing, expanding an outline. Adjusting text. Resizing text. Using graphs. Adjusting clipart in the Slide view. Adding slide numbers to the master slide. Placing clipart in the presentation. Using AutoFormat. Creating charts. Creating speaker notes. The Zoom Control Box. Creating handouts. Assigning transition effects. Assigning random transitions. The PowerPoint Viewer.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £29.94      

AVP-W98-471001    HyperStudio

HyperStudio has been designed for use in education and is very easy to use. Everything you need to develop your own CD projects has been built-in. The CD-ROM resource disk contains a wealth of clip art, sounds, animations, QuickTime movies, tutorials and sample projects to help get you started. Buttons can be made to any shape and will do almost anything you like. Teachers can use HyperStudio to create dynamic presentations and interactive learning resources. Pupils can extend the scope of their creative writing to incorporate lots of different media in their work - interactive stories, poems, plays, comic strips, multimedia diaries, music, radio and TV criticism, school newspapers, multimedia CVs, interviews, etc.

HyperStudio‘s Internet capabilities make it a powerful and versatile research tool. Buttons can be set up to direct NetScape to open a specific home page (or other URL location). HyperStudio automatically connects through the Internet to predetermined sites, down loads a file and displays the image in a clip art window. Although HyperStudio is easy to use it provides a challenging environment that grows with you. Behind the simple interface is a powerful and sophisticated authoring system. HyperLogo extends the basic capabilities of HyperStudio allowing more complex projects to be scripted. The language is based on Logo and allows you t control all aspects of your project using Logo commands.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £117.44 5 User Pack £352.44 Per User Extension £43.48

AVP-W98-494000    Helpplus PC Tutorials

Computer based training as listed below for both Office 95 (494001) and The Internet (494002) including both programs and provided as a network licence.

Network Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Site Licence £293.75

AVP-W98-494001    Office 95 Tutorial

A user friendly interactive approach to learning the software features and benefits of Word (Introduction and Advanced), Excel, PowerPoint, MS Exchange, Schedule+ and Windows 95. A compact, practical way to learn with its to help the user, book-marking and review questions with an optional link with the application prog ram.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £99.88       

AVP-W98-494002    The Internet Tutorial

A clear introduction to the history and practical use of the Internet to include learning about the providers (AOL), access to the network (MS Network) and Navigational software (Netscape 3.0). A compact, practical way to learn with its to help the user, book-marking and review questions with an optional link with the application program.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £58.69

AVP-W98-438006    Java: The Complete Development Kit

Java, JavaScript and Netscape 2.0 are among the newest and most exciting technologies to hit the Web, bringing executable content to an otherwise ‘static’ universe of Web pages. At long last, your HTML documents can become fully-fledged applications and this CD provides everything you need: the full text of Jason Manger’s best-seller Essential Java in two formats: Adobe Acrobat and HTML format; live links to Java sites on the Internet; the Java Development Kit (JDK) for Windows 95, Windows NT and Solaris, plus the Hot Java Browser; Café, a cut down version of Symantec Café, a GUI for JDK making it simple and fast to create Java applets; 24 time saving classes.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £29.99

AVP-W98-438007    WebWise: The Cyberia Guide to Smart Web Publishing

Learn how to create basic Web pages that can be transformed into professional looking documents with graphics, lists, forms, tables, colour, etc, - all in nine easy lessons. The lessons are completely integrated with the software contained on the disk and include projects and examples to help guide you through step-by-step. Plus, there is an html folder on the disk packed full of templates, further reading, clip art and sample sound clips for users to incorporate into their web pages. Plus lists of resources available from the Web with a book-marked list to make it even easier to get there. In addition, issues surrounding Web publishing, like getting your pages on-line, legal issues, analysing the use of your site, etc are discussed.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £49.98       

AVP-W98-PC5019    Communicating with the Internet

Up to six hours of tutorial covering: What is the Internet? Defining TCP/IP. How TCP/IP is used on the Internet. Popular features of the Internet. Downloading files from remote FTP servers. File Transfer protocol. Using FTP to view and download a file. What Gopher is. Using Gopher to explore subjects of interest. Explaining Telnet. Using Telnet to access other computers. Sending, reading e-mail messages. Electronic Mailing Lists. Using Newsgroups. Connecting to Microsoft Network. MSN Utilities. Internet utilities provided by CompuServe. Discussing e-mail. Addressing e-mail. Attaching a text file to a message. Discussing different Internet connections.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £29.94

AVP-W98-PC5017    On-Line with Microsoft Network

Up to six hours of tutorial covering: Signing on to the Microsoft Network. Using the Find option. the Home Base screen. Microsoft Network screen. Enrolling a member. the menu bar. Creating, sending e-mail. Using Microsoft Exchange. Saving, printing mail. Modifying information in an address book. Adding addresses to an address book. Placing names in a mailbox. Microsoft Network categories. Moving through categories. Viewing a bulletin board. Sending a test message. Looking at Newsgroups. File Transfer Protocol. Explaining Gopher. Accessing the Internet.

Prices (In Pounds Sterling) Single User £29.94