SMART Ideas® Software Wins Big with Red Deer Catholic School District
SMART chosen in a competitive selection for 500 copies of concept-mapping software
Calgary, AB --- June 30, 2003 --- SMART Technologies Inc. announces the sale of 500 copies of SMART Ideas concept-mapping software to the Red Deer Catholic School District in Alberta. The district chose SMART Ideas software over competing products for three reasons: the software’s ability to create multilevel diagrams, its capacity to produce a navigable Web output, and because it’s optimized for use on a SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard, a tool used regularly by many teachers in the Red Deer school district.
“The Red Deer Catholic School District’s selection of SMART Ideas software validates our focus on both teacher and student use,” says Nancy Knowlton, president and co-CEO of SMART. “With SMART Ideas software, teachers can integrate concept maps into lessons, helping students to connect ideas, organize concepts and plan projects.”
“The students absolutely love SMART Ideas software, and it really helps the visual learners in the class,” says John Groenen, a grade eight teacher at St. Patrick Community School in Red Deer, Alberta. “The lesson content I created with the software helped to focus the students’ attention. Both classes in which I used SMART Ideas software were impressed – and that means a lot coming from a junior high class.”
About SMART Ideas Software
With SMART Ideas software, teachers can create multilevel diagrams to visually represent complex ideas, making concepts easier for students to understand. The software’s built-in templates and extensive clip-art gallery feature high quality, curriculum-based images that help teachers save time and add visual interest to their lessons. Live Web links, audio clips, photos, images, documents, movie clips and presentations can easily be added. At the end of class, diagrams or outlines can be saved as HTML files, complete with all levels and hyperlinks, for e-mail distribution or easy posting to a Web site, intranet or network. SMART Ideas software can be used on desktop computers, SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards and Sympodium™ interactive lecterns.
Integration with SMART Board Interactive Whiteboards
SMART Ideas concept-mapping software has been optimized for use on a SMART Board interactive whiteboard, the world’s leading interactive whiteboard. Because SMART Ideas software automatically converts handwritten notes to text, teachers can spontaneously develop maps directly on the interactive whiteboard in front of the class. Users can draw freehand annotations (shapes or images) and connecting lines within SMART Ideas software. The SMART Board interactive whiteboard provides complete touch control, making it easy for users to create and organize diagrams, quickly move between levels and link to files using a finger as a mouse.
For more information about SMART Ideas software, visit www.smarttech.com/smartideas.
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