Free SMART Ideas® Concept-Mapping Software With Every SMART Board™ Interactive Whiteboard
Educators receive a host of free curriculum-related templates and clip art
Calgary, AB --- January 20, 2003 --- A free copy of SMART Ideas concept-mapping software for the Microsoft
Windows operating system is now shipping with every SMART Board interactive whiteboard. The combination of SMART Board software with SMART Ideas software creates a powerful set of templates and tools unavailable on any other brand of interactive whiteboard. This bundle includes a comprehensive, expandable clip-art gallery and the ability to incorporate any multimedia or file type. Used for brainstorming, organizing ideas and planning projects, SMART Ideas software fosters creative, independent thinking in the classroom.
On a SMART Board interactive whiteboard, notes written in SMART Ideas software can be converted into text within nodes which can then be connected. Teachers can simply use their finger to re-organize nodes, helping students understand relationships between concepts in an engaging and visual fashion.
“Teachers can save time using the software's built-in templates to create lessons and add visual interest to diagrams using the extensive clip-art gallery. The gallery contains high quality, curriculum-based images, including cell diagrams, stars and constellations, and pictures of famous inventors,” says Nancy Knowlton, president and co-CEO of SMART Technologies Inc.
Additional Features
SMART Ideas software supports multilevel concept maps. Teachers and students can create unlimited sublevels, expand simple maps and move quickly between levels. Live Web links, audio clips, photos, images, documents, movie clips and presentations can be easily attached to nodes, making SMART Ideas software useful for tracking and studying even complex projects or events.
SMART Ideas software can also be used on SMART Board interactive whiteboards, Sympodium
lecterns and desktop computers. The latest version of SMART Ideas software is available in five languages – English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. As with SMART Board software, users can switch languages whenever they choose, making SMART Ideas software ideal for multi-language schools and classes.
Pricing and Availability
One copy of SMART Ideas is shipping free of charge with every SMART Board interactive whiteboard. Educators who already have SMART Board interactive whiteboards may download the software from http://www.smarttech.com/support/software/index.asp.
Schools may order additional copies at preferential prices.
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For more information, please contact:
Public Relations
SMART Technologies Inc.
300, 1207 - 11th Avenue SW
Calgary, AB CANADA T3C 0M5
Phone +1.403.802.3337 Fax +1.403.228.2500
pr@smarttech.com
Please note that SMART is written in all capital letters.