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Communicate: Ideas
Communicate: Ideas
A dynamic environment for modeling and organising thought
Communicate: Ideas is unique in providing support for a full range of visual tools including concept maps, mind maps, webs, trees, bubble maps and many other useful forms. Communicate: Ideas helps the learner deal with facts and knowledge, with memory and retrieval, with language and thinking, and with individual and social forms of learning.
Communicate: Ideas provides a powerful modern tool for teaching and learning, which can be usefully applied to almost any subject area at any level of attainment. The software can positively impact on challenging areas of learning such as literacy, development of thinking skills, teaching of study skills, boys' writing, supporting inclusion and Gifted and Talented extension.
Communicate: Ideas is ideal for collaborative use on a large screen or Interactive Whiteboard, especially using Presenter Mode, which allows a map to be discussed and demonstrated.
It is possible to tile-print maps to very large sizes for classroom wall displays. You can print any map across any number of pages. The crop marks are printed on each page, and you just need scissors and glue to reassemble the pages into a single sheet as big as you could ever need. Besides printing your map, you can export your work as a Powerpoint Presentation, an HTML page or as a Word document (including the outline view) to use it as the basis for further writing.
Communicate: Ideas comes with a high quality activity guide, which provides a valuable introduction to using mapping in the primary classroom. It explains how the software works and comes with a collection of practical and useful activities which can be used or adapted easily for use in your classroom, across the curriculum.
As a teacher, why should I be interested in visual thinking?
Additional features
- Comes with the Widgit Symbol set of over 7,000 images
- The software comes with a wealth of practical templates and example files for classroom use.
- A simple click of the mouse lets you switch to picture mode to extend or alter the map collaboratively onscreen as part of a topic introduction or summary. You can collapse and expand parts of your map to help focus your presentation.
- You can add live hyperlinks and voice annotations to your map, so a click will play a recorded sound or jump to a website.
- You can add notes to any part of your map, to include extra information for yourself or others.
- All text can be spoken aloud by the computer, to give aural feedback to support less confident spellers, and there is a real time spelling checker, which signals misspellings and offers suggestions for correct spelling.
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Recommended running specification
Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, Windows 7
Pentium processor (450MHz min)
512MB RAM min, preferably 1024MB and Sound Card
500Mb hard disk space.
Minimum resolution of 800x600
| UK Price guide (ex VAT and P&P): Single licence £50 Five machine licence £115 |
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