MLTI HS
Teacher 2007 Image Application List
Mac
OS 10.4 "Tiger"
AppleÕs
latest operating system. Each year as available, the MLTI solution will
be
upgraded to utilize the latest version of the Mac OS. http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/
Address
Book
Your
online Contact Manager. Manage addresses, contact information and more.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/addressbook/
Appleworks
Productivity
suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet, database, drawing,
painting,
and presentation. http://www.apple.com/appleworks/
ClamXAV
An
open-source anti-virus application. www.clamxav.com
Comic
Life
CyberDuck
CyberDuck
is an open source, fully featured FTP/SFTP client. Users may use it to
upload
web pages to web servers and perform other file transfer needs. http://cyberduck.ch.
Offered to MLTI by the David Kocher, the creator of CyberDuck.
Finale
PA
Shareware
music notation software that will require you to register if you want
to use
it. http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/home.aspx
Firefox
Fast
and popular open source web browser. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Freemind
Open
source concept mapping application similar to Inspiration. http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Garageband
Digital
recording studio. Record and edit your own music or podcasts. http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/
G.I.M.P.
(Graphic Image Manipulation Program)
Open
source image editing tool similar to Photoshop. This
application uses X11, a windowing system that allows
you to run applications ported from other UNIX systems.
It provides access to many open source
applications otherwise not available for OS X. http://gimp.org/
Google
Earth
Google
Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information
right
on your desktop. This was
donated to
the MLTI Project from our friends at Google.
One
note: Google Earth can be very bandwidth intensive and a potential
burden on
your network. Coordinating classrooms for Google Earth use might aid
network
performance. http://earth.google.com.
Grapher
A
2D and 3D graphing calculator. Bundled with Mac OS X. http://www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatures/over200.html
iChat
A
Text/Audio/Video "Chat" client.
iCal
The built-in
calendar program that supports multiple calendars.
iDVD
DVD
authoring software. You can use iDVD even if you don't have a DVD
player. Create a DVD project using iDVD,
and
even create a DVD disk image. Then you can take the resulting file to a
workstation
with a DVD burner or use a portable DVD burner to create the DVD. The
DVD will
then play back on most consumer DVD players.
iMovie
Movie
editing software. http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
iPhoto
Digital
Photo management, image enhancement, and slideshows. http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/
iTunes
Digital
music management and encoding, and the portal into the land of all
things iPods
and iPhones.
iWeb
A
WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor for web page creation,
which can
create blogs and podcasts as well.
It is part of (and integrated with) the rest of the iLife suite.
Keynote
Presentation
software, part of the "iWork" suite. http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/
NeoOffice
Open
source productivity suite, and a Microsoft Office alternative. Create,
open,
edit, and save Microsoft office formatted files (.doc, .xls, .ppt).
Note
that if you are trying to save a document to a network server you will
not get
the regular OSX file saving dialog. In the NeoOffice dialog, go to the
root
level of your hard drive to view Volumes, which contains all of your
mounted
server sharepoints. You could also save the file to your home folder
and drag
it to your sharepoint.
NetLogo
NetLogo
is a programmable modeling environment for simulating natural and
social
phenomena. It is particularly well suited for modeling complex systems
developing over time. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/.
Offered to MLTI by Uri Wilensky, the creator of NetLogo, Director of
the Center
for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling.
NoteShare
Multimedia
Digital Notebook. Create, organize, share, publish. http://www.aquaminds.com
Pages
Word
Processor and Page Layout. Part of the "iWork" suite. http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/
PASCO
DataStudio
Data
analysis, graphing calculator. http://www.pasco.com/datastudio/.
It is intended to be used
with PASCO Scientific Probes, but the application will work even
without the
probes plugged in.
It
should be noted however - That
in
order for the probes to be recognized when you plug them in, you may
need to
launch the "PAS Portal" application located inside the PASCO
Datastudio folder. This is the "probe recognition" software.
PASCO
MyWorld GIS
A
Geographic Information System for Inquiry-Based Learning. Query, plot
and
analyze geographic data such as climate, geology, biodiversity,
population and
more. http://www.pasco.com/myworld/
Safari
Web
browser with RSS feed management. http://www.apple.com/safari/
SketchUp
Pro
Sketchup
is a 3D modeling program similar to a CAD (computer-aided design)
program that
is integrated with Google Earth. This was donated to the MLTI Project
from our
friends at Google. http://www.sketchup.com.
LiveDictionary
with AudioAssisted Text
LiveDictionary
is a Safari extension that adds fast, convenient dictionary lookups to
the
web. http://www.eloquentsw.com/livedictionary.html.
AudioAssistedText is a LiveDictionary plugin that allows you to point
to a word
in Safari and hear the word spoken in a human voice. http://www.audioassistedtext.com/.
Both titles offered to MLTI by the authors, Eloquent Software and
MetaTheory.
Other
The
MLTI image also includes a host of other titles that are shipped with
the
Operating System including Mail, iSync, Quicktime, and others. For a
complete
list, please visit http://www.apple.com/macosx/