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"PLATO Learning's post-secondary solutions meet the diverse demands college and adult students bring to their post-secondary learning experience with award-winning products that enhance the learning process and provide the quality, flexibility, interactivity, and online access that students expect. "

Camtasia is a video screen capture and production tool that allows anyone to capture, edit and publish high-fidelity AVI videos of on-screen activity. Record the action from any part of the Windows desktop and save it to a standard AVI movie or streaming video. Create software tutorials or broadcast live desktop activity over the internet.

Apple Computer has recently introduced a new type of QuickTime VR called "Cubic VR". The main advantage of cubic VR is that it allows the viewer to look straight up and straight down. The cubic movies are also smaller in file size than the previous high angle of view cylinder movies.

"The FAST project is committed to providing users with a simple online tool for assessing their students' impressions of their courses and their teaching. Using the software does not cost anything"

"School Maestro III is a comprehensive teacher productivity tool. The included grading program is the most advanced program available and supports a wide variety of different grading methods. It also tracks attendance and discipline, does seating charts, allows subjective grades, creates reusable lesson plans, report cards, honor rolls, GPAs, and transcripts. Reports are available via the Internet and form letters with optional report attachments may be emailed. "

Gradeworks is a free, web-based tool for teachers that promotes communication between parents, teachers and students by giving the families easy access to grades, assignments, schedules and class activities in a secure environment that's available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Create your own classroom or self-directed gameshow style games, quizzes, tests and surveys using LearningWare's software templates, described below. All are Y3K compliant. Our mission is to make learning fun. For example, Quiz Rocket is a unique, easy-to-use quiz and survey program. Unlike other web-based tools, Quiz Rocket creates an interactive, media-rich environment for Web users. Using Quiz Rocket's fill-in-the-blanks, template approach, you can customize quizzes and surveys around any content and publish them on the Web for access anywhere, anytime. All six Flash Learning Interactions are included: multiple choice, matching, T/F, branching, short answer, and sequencing questions.

Teachers can make live, interactive web pages with LiveMath inside for their students. Students may interact with these web pages using the FREE LiveMath Plug-In. Teachers may also develop exams that are typeset beautiful and LIVE! LiveMath also works with Course Management Systems or use our LiveMath Board to easily create communication forums for your students. If you need a little web space to help you get going, LiveMath Storage is available for you to upload your LiveMath notebooks for web page usage.

Maple provides the single mathematical analysis environment for solving technical problems in the workplace, the research lab and in the classroom, including: The world's most respected symbolic solver; Stunning graphics generation and visualization tools; High-speed numeric solvers from The Numerical Algorithms Group; High-level, interactive programming language; Connectivity with the Web through TCP/IP sockets, MathML 2.0, and XML; Connectivity with other software tools.

Students submit their work as email attachments or word-processor documents, and teachers need to be able to mark and return these documents as quickly and easily as they can mark work submitted on paper. Markin is the latest in marking and annotation software for on-line and electronic teaching environments. It can import text material from the clipboard, or from an RTF or text file, and provides all the tools you need to mark and annotate this text. When you have finished, you can export the marked text as an RTF file for loading into a word-processor, or as a web page so that your students can view the marked text in a web browser - and you can email this file directly back to the student, all without leaving the Markin program.

Mathcad offers you an integrated environment for performing and communicating your math-related work. It provides hundreds of operators and built-in functions for solving technical problems. Use Mathcad to perform numeric calculations or to find symbolic solutions. It automatically tracks and converts units and operates on scalars, vectors, and matrices. Integrated images, text, graphs, and mathematics means your whole solution is contained and documented in one place. Formatting options and style sheets let you prepare documents to exact specifications. Distribute your work in Mathcad, the Mathcad Client, print, or as MathML for the web.

From simple calculator operations to large-scale programming and interactive document preparation, Mathematica is the tool of choice at the frontiers of scientific research, in engineering analysis and modeling, in technical education from high school to graduate school, and wherever quantitative methods are used. Whether you need a sophisticated calculator or an integrated technical programming environment, Mathematica provides you with a complete solution. You can perform a single task - like analyzing data or solving a tricky differential equation - or develop an entire solution, prototype, or application.

MathType is the Professional Version of Equation Editor. If you are familiar with our Equation Editor included in Microsoft Office and other products, then you will really appreciate MathType's extra features. It will let you create a wider range of equations for a wider range of documents, and help you work much more efficiently. We've added an enormous amount of functionality that effectively transforms Microsoft Word into a state-of-the-art math word processor and Web page editor.

MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education. With a continually growing collection of online learning materials, assignments and reviews, MERLOT helps faculty enhance instruction. MERLOT is also a community of people who strive to enrich teaching and learning experiences. Putting Educational Innovations Into Practice Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education.

offers a great variety of video resources in several disciplines which SUNY faculty may excerpt to use in their online courses. A list of programming resources, including Annenberg/CPB (see their video catalog http://www.learner.org/catalog/catalog.html ) can be found at the following address: http://www.nyn.suny.edu/cable/programming.htm\ . If you would like to adapt any of these materials to your online course, please send your request to: geotucker@nyn.suny.edu See their online video catalog for a partial list of program providers and their web links. Their web sites are full of print and other materials designed to enhance your experience of these programs.

Annenberg/CPB available to SUNY faculty through the SUNY New York Network, provides a video catalog of programs with coordinated web and print materials in a variety of disciplines. Many series offer educators much more than just a video.