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Module V Integrating Digital Media and Education Software Applications Software  1. Decisions, Decisions As a teacher, you know students always need more learning opportunities to develop critical thinking and higher-order thinking skills through decision making. Decisions, Decisions by Tom Snyder Productions creates simulations where students learn and apply the lessons of history through role-playing. Students can gather and analyze information and examine basic historical events, use illustrations from history to assess alternatives, evaluate possible outcomes, and then make decisions. The curriculum-specific areas include: ancient empires, feudalism, immigration, the Cold War, the environment, and much more.  2. Class Works What if you could have 180 top software titles from leading software publishers such as Tom Snyder Productions, Knowledge Adventure, Davidson & Associates, and Scholastic Software at your fingertips with more than 10,800 activities to support your curriculum? That might be an unbelievable undertaking, but what if you also had a customized system that could set the appropriate learning paths for your students? ClassWorks Gold is an open learning system that manages your favorite software titles and integrates them into the K-8 math and language arts curriculum with a cross-curricular approach. ClassWorks is a new approach to learning that lets teachers customize the individual student's learning paths. ClassWorks has an elaborate benchmarking assessment system for reporting all student data. ClassWorks provides a great way to learn!  3. Math Blaster Series Research confirms that the full integration of digital media math programs can improve retention of math concepts and thus math scores. Developed by educators, the Math Blaster Series from Knowledge Adventure offers interactive digital media programs for almost all age levels from pre-kindergarten to high school. Math Blaster helps students master math concepts and prepare for state and national testing. Key features include the SmartPoints reward system that motivates and helps students to achieve their personal best. Key skills covered include adding and subtracting, multiplying, understanding and using fractions, reading and understanding number patterns, reading and analyzing charts, sorting complex sets, solving problems, and enhancing logic skills.  4. Blackboard/WebCT Blackboard/WebCT, the world's leading provider of integrated e-learning systems for higher education, includes two of the world’s top course management systems. These programs are powerful and comprehensive courseware tools used by colleges and K-12 institutions to offer online courses, professional development, and alternative types of training solutions. They automate many tasks, including scoring true/false, multiple choice, and short answer exams and tracking student progress and activity. Teachers and students can interact and collaborate online using bulletin boards and internal e-mail systems. Students can upload their own Web pages into a special area within a course. These programs provide teachers and school districts with a secure and efficient way of offering online courses to students.