RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES

On Grandparent's Day in the Lower School Computer Lab, Edie Flagg featured a Drawing Application called Pixie. Learn more about Pixie. The Grandparents and Special Friends had a great time creating with this program.

A similar free Drawing Application you can download is TuxPaint. Learn more about or download TuxPaint.

Sketchup was also mentioned in the presentation for Grandparent's Day, it is a free application for creating 3-D models.

On Parents Night, Beth Lovell mentioned some software available online to help middle school students with their various homework projects and computer skills. We will be adding to this list throughout the year, so please check here.

Office software:

Google Docs: An online Office Suite including a word processor, spreadsheet program, slide presentation program, and a way to create simple online forms. Can import and export to Microsoft Office formats. To use this, you have to either have a Google account, or you can create one with an any email address.

Downloadable open source (free) Office software (compatible with Microsoft Office)
Open Office and Neo Office(for Mac)

Additional resources for students and families:

Easy Bib An Online Bibliography Tool

LibraryThing Track the books you have read online

Webspiration An online version of Inspiration, the visual organizer program we use at Foote.

Graph Creator simply create a graph online

Art:

Pixie A painting application for younger students

TuxPaint An open source (free) application for younger students and just for fun

Photoshop.com Adobe Photoshop's free online photo editing tool

Sketchup a free application for creating 3-D models.

Programming:

If you have a budding programmer or developer in your midst, these might be a few of good places to explore.

Alice

Scratch

Sprout Online Flash creation, there is a free version

Just for Fun:

Wordle: An online word cloud creator

Keyboarding Skills:

Ten Thumbs Typing This is the software we use at Foote, you can purchase it or do a free online typing test here

Type Type Revolution A typing game of sorts

Online typing tests:

kids.learn2type.com

Typing test

Typing from a literary text

Keyboarding Lessons