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Module III Application Software Productivity Tools for Educators Software 1. PrimeTime Math:  Teachers of exceptional students will find the PrimeTime Math series excellent support software for the math curriculum. PrimeTime Math engages students by providing stories about real-world professionals using math in real-life situations, that include titles like Adrift!, Cliffbound!, Fire!, Lost!, Emergency!, and Stakeout! This software meets the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards by building mathematical understanding through use of stories about crimes, medical emergencies, fires, and wilderness search and rescues, while at the same time assisting students in realizing the importance of math in the world in which they live. 2. Adobe Photoshop Elements: Adobe Photoshop Elements allows you and your students to edit pictures from resources, such as those downloaded from digital cameras and the Internet. You can use these edited pictures to create multimedia digital projects, unique reports, personalized calendars, student bulletin boards for classroom instruction, post to blogs, and much more. Using Adobe Photoshop Elements helps your classroom photos have a professionally finished look without a lot of hassle and the price is perfect for education! 3. Thinkology: Developing students' critical-thinking skills and creating learning opportunities that engage higher order thinking skills always have been a struggle for teachers. Thinkology by Heartsoft helps K-3 students master essential critical thinking skills while having fun! Students are guided through a critical-thinking-skills journey with a cast of clever animated characters. Students learn to reason through concepts and are asked questions such as, does this make sense? 4. Kidspiration: Ever had trouble getting young learners to organize their thoughts and develop their great ideas into understandable concepts? Kidspiration is an excellent visual learning tool for teaching K-5 students to organize and express those great ideas through visual learning! Created for inexperienced readers and writers, Kidspiration helps students increase their confidence as they learn to understand concepts, organize information, write stories, and convey and share their thoughts. Brainstorming, visual mapping, thought webs, and other visual tools are used to enhance students’ comprehension of concepts and information. 5. Tessellation Exploration: Do you want to make teaching tessellations to your middle and high school students fun and easy? One piece of software that makes the concept of tessellations easier to teach and allows students to practice is Tessellation Exploration by Tom Snyder Productions. The software includes an extensive tutorial on the concept of tessellations. Teachers can use the software as a tool to present the concept of tessellations. Next, students use Tessellation Exploration to construct their own tessellations, by selecting a base shape and moves, such as slides, flips, and turns; students watch their tessellation form before their eyes. Students can create slide shows with the tessellations or print them out. 