Mac Seat'em and Mac Drill import the rosters prepared from the enclosed Roster Master or from your gradebook program, or from a word processor, data base, or spreadsheet. You may also type your students' names directly into a seating chart.
If you are using Gradebook Plus or Grade Machine your class lists will be imported directly. For other gradebooks, use their options to save your classes as TEXT files.
You may also import text files from word processors, data bases, and spreadsheets.
Mac Seat'em is a most versatile and fun to use seating charts maker! It will accommodate 100 seats and students.
You make your seating charts in any arrangement you choose. The print-outs are magnificent. You choose the fonts and sizes and how you want the names to appear on your charts. You may include squares for attendance and tardies.
Students may be moved and exchanged with the mouse. When you want a completely new seating chart, just choose the randomize option to scramble the kids.
==> Be sure to read the suggestions in the HELP menu.
Mac Drill is a super-fun, high tech review game that will randomly call upon the kids by displaying their names in LARGE FONT on the computer screen. Review lists may be entered into the computer in advance. The computer will then display a question and then call upon a student to answer it.
Mac Drill also can be used to randomly select project, cooperative learning, or lab groups of kids. They don't argue with "Lord Apple".
==> Be sure to read the suggestions in the HELP menu.
The Formula Club Game is an interactive program for practicing chemical symbols and formulas with teacher-edited ions and comments for student responses.
Here╒s how the game works:
The Macintosh randomly generates chemical formulas from the ion list saved in the program. The name of the formula is displayed in large font so several kids can participate. The student types in and enters the formula.
If the answer is correct, a ╥correct answer╙ comment is randomly selected from the ╥praises╙ list and the next question is asked.
If the answer is incorrect, a comment is selected from the ╥wrong answers (teases)╙ list. The correct answer is then displayed so that the students can see what was wrong, and then the correct answer must be entered before continuing to the next question.
After ten formulas have been done, the score is given and another set may be done.
The program also prints beautiful study sheets made from the ions list.
The Formula Club Editor is the program used by the teacher to add, delete, or change the comments or ions used by the game. We use the traditional notation for ions placing the + or - before the charge number (Al+3) so that the computer will know when to superscript it. Without the + or -, numerals are automatically subscripted. The student does not have to hassle with any scripting.
Much fun is had when the comments are school or class ╥in-jokes╙ that the students can relate with. The more comments, the better. This decreases the frequency that each one is displayed.
The Formulas Club Editor will be promptly sent to you when we receive your $15 + $5 SHT registration fee.
Any questions? -- call "The Boom" for assistance.
"Boomeria Softworks"
60 Verde Drive
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831 426-2617.
pqboom@aol.com
Compuserve 71042,2034
www.concentric.net/~leboom
PS: The reason that it is called a "Club" is that I have the kids having trouble with formulas come in at lunch to practice. Hence it became known as "The Formula Club".
HAVE FUN!!
We will appreciate any input that you would care to give!
Gradebook Plus is the Apple Computer award-winning grading program from EMA. It has a tremendous number of great options for record keeping and report printing! It's the Ultimate!! And its super user friendly. Please try this demonstration.
Gradebook Plus is currently being used by tens of thousands of teachers across the country. It has received top reviews in leading education publications, was selected by Apple Computer, Inc. for inclusion in its Apple Horizons program as an exemplary piece of educational software and received the 1988-89 Classroom compute Learning Award of Excellence. The price is $59.95 for an individual version, or $199.95 for a building site license that allows a school to copy the program for all the teachers at the site.
More details:
Gradebook Plus has just released the beautiful Version 6.01 including these features:
* 8 Classes per disk
* 45 students per class
* 60 entries per student
* Support for color monitors and printers and sound input and output devices
* Teacher╒s editable comments and sound annotations
* On screen editing windows for fastest, easiest entry of scores of any program
* Use students╒ names or ID numbers when printing gradebook of entire class
* Statistical package for analyzing entries includes mean, median, standard deviation and
-the option to include student initials on histogram
-the ability to use more than one class in the analysis
* Use the mini word processor to customize individual student reports
* Print an individual report on all classes in which a student is enrolled
* Print a data entry sheet or class roster optionally including database information
* Print the gradebook for all classes on a single command.
* Generate a list of missing assignments for each student
* Full editing features to add, remove or change any information
* Teacher defined grading scales for each class
* Compute grades based on teacher╒s weighting system
* Entries titled as desired, not just numbered
* Allows entry of letter grades and exemption from assignment
* Well written manual geared toward the novice user
* Interfaces to work with programs such as Exel, Works and Word
* Supports Educator Homecard Seating Charts
* Print attendance sheets, sorted reports, report card and full year report
* Data is compatible with Apple and PC editions of Gradebook Plus
* Runs on Macintoshes with at least 1024K (1 megabyte) of memory.
